Hot topics in the European election

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Dear fellow Europeans, I'd like to know what the top 3 hot topics in the context of the upcoming European election are in your countries.

As far as I can speak for Germany, those topics are:

• Brexit
• EU Copyright Directive
• external border control

⚠️Notate bene: I'm only referring to the reference frequency of a topic in the news coverage and to those topics that Joe Six-Pack considers important.

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- Who's gonna be the next Commission President

Really? No. I mean REALLY no!
No one cares about that. Most Germans don't even know the commission-presidential candidates. They don't even know what the SEP (PES) and the EVP (EPP) are. And even those who do don't even care:

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Really? No. I mean REALLY no!

Yes, REALLY.

One of the most frequent question I get from voters at the moment is "will the Greens support Weber or Timmermans in the European Parliament?"

I guess you work as a campaign aide and as a member of the Greens you might have a very educated and politicized audience. The common people are not interested in the formation of factions in the EU Parliament and their multipartisan support of a candidate for the Commission President's office.
Maybe I ought to have made it clear in the OP that I'm referring to the media's coverage for certain topics.

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The AfD people do indeed not care about such questions.

That's probably because the AfD is not part of a European party and therefore doesn't have a CP candidate. (Plus, everybody knows that Timmermans won't have the slightest chance of becoming CP.)

Tomorrow evening, the second Weber-Timmermans debate will air on German television. This time on ZDF. So the question who's gonna be Commission President does play an important role in the media's coverage.

The audience will consist of politically interested and educated voters, thus most of them (not even all) will know the two candidates beforehand. Beyond the TV debates there is hardly any discussion about the election of the CP.

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Mostly it's because the average AfD voter doesn't care much for the EU at all (beyond it's ability to maybe curtail immigration.)

They may not care for the EU itself, but they do care for EU election topics.

That’s a bit of a contradiction. How can "everybody know that Timmermans won’t have the slightest chance" when "most Germans don't even know the commission-presidential candidates"?

Replace "Timmermans" with "the SPE candidate", and you'll know what I mean.

I won't bother now to google for the many newspaper articles on the Commision President race, but it does raise the question what threshold you would regard as "sufficient" here...

I didn't claim that there isn't any discussion about the CP candidate at all, but there are topics that have been mentioned waaay more often in the news coverage. Both you and I named such examples.

Anyway, you asked a question, I answered it. If you don't like the answers then don't ask.

I didn't say I don't like your answers. I just said they're wrong.  
Plus, I'm actually looking for answers about the matter itself, as opposed to personnel issues. But nevertheless, thanks for your comments!

Whatever! I hope someone from another country is gonna join in the debate.