Um lýðræði í ESB: Þátttaka í kosningum til Evrópusambandsþingsins frá 1979

Stefan Collignon is Professor of European Political Economy at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and President of the European Association for Democracy.

Púnktar úr grein Stefan Collignon

• • No matter who wins in the European elections: the conservative European Commission President Barroso will remain in office

  • You have the choice, announced a poster at the European Parliament in Brussels. Think! At the 2009 European elections, we have no choice

  • Europe is in crisis

  • A referendum after another is lost

  • Voter turnout is falling and this is probably their historical low point

  • The European integration project was based on a promise: peace, prosperity, democracy.

  • This promise is losing credibility. While the peace (yet) been observed but appears to threaten the prosperity.

  • No, Europe itself seems to the agent for neoliberal welfare cuts have become Commission President Barroso is the symbol of this policy.

  • He stands for re-nationalization of politics

  • From a common macroeconomic control in the euro area, once one of the two main pillars of the Lisbon Strategy, was nothing left

  • Democracy thrives on controversy