EP elections 2014

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Far from certain.

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It really is quite pathetic that 0.5% is enough to get into the EP.

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Juncker is beyond boring...more of the same old austerity.

Anyway,I wonder why in the EU nobody from the PES exploits the fact that Berlusconi's eurodeputies will be vital for any EPP majority...

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In Finland the connection to Fidesz and Berlusconi are asked every time.

Better than nothing.
(I had forgotten about Hungary,thought both super-right parties were out of EPP...)

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The idea that anyone in Latvia or wherever is going to change their vote because of how people in the Netherlands voted is delusional.

Well, maybe not in Europe because the parties are different in each country and people don't give much thought about what's happening in other countries.

But remember what happened in 2008, when Obama was announced President on the networks and many California voters went to the polls after that to "support" their new President, pushing the Obama-share above 60% ?

Now imagine if the race is close somewhere and people are voting after they heard someone winning "projected by the news" and then things turn out differently ... Total chaos.

Even if there's just a small number of people that could change their opinion based on the UK result announced earlier, I think it's still better that all results are announced at the same time.

The ridicolous thing was allowing differentiated voting in the first place...

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Indirectly-elected European Parliament?
What a nice way to tackle the issue of accountability concerning the EU!

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Pathetic and false.
What to expect from former (?) fascists?

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I highly doubt Grillo would join EFD.  The Greens are a possibility.  He might also try to form his own group of non-ideological parties (UPyD from Spain might be interested?) but he will have a hard time finding parties from 7 countries.

No way M5S will join the Greens. In the last year and a half, ever since they went under the spotlight,they never talked about the environment.
It's an anti-euro and anti-EU populist movement,with scary right-wing fringes. That's it.

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The format

A 90-minute, live TV debate between the contenders to be the next president of the EU commission.

Language update

Ska Keller, Martin Schulz and Guy Verhofstadt will debate in English, while Alexis Tsipras will speak in Greek, and Jean-Claude Juncker will participate in French.

The presenter

Veteran Italian journalist, war correspondent, TV anchor, author, filmmaker and broadcasting executive, Monica Maggioni.

What the hell? If you wanna be leading the European Commission,fluent English is a must...

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Latest polls give EPP a 3 seats lead on the PES.

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I'm voting on Saturday, but I don't know who to vote for. I'm torn between the greenies (EELV), which will win at least one seat in my constituency and which is the major party I agree with the most but I'm not a big fan of them since they're useless and idiotic careerists and their performance in government was crappy (otoh, I credit them for not buying into Valls' scam and their MEPs are actually competent); or the tiny and irrelevant regionalist list (R&PS), which stands zero chance of winning seats and will do horribly, but they're probably the one list I sympathize with the most as a French regionalist myself. I've also considered voting 'Nouvelle donne', a new leftist-progressive party which wants some FDR-like New Deal.

Any recommendations?

I guess Nouvelle Donne wouldn't be a bad choice, but it's a wasted vote so meh. I'm glad I can vote in Italy instead, so that I can give my vote to a pro-Tsipras party that isn't led by a sanctimonious moron.

The Italian pro-Tsipras party is just as bad
Same bunch of old leftists who were in Rivoluzione Civile last year...

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379413001212

No effect,according to him.

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So absolutely no exit poll for the UK ? That's disappointing. Anyway, in France the media, after having rooted for FN all the way to the election (directly or indirectly), are now loudly saying that Wilders, Le Pen's allyu, failed miserably, when we only have an exit poll that can change on Sunday, and that the European eurosceptic right is in a bad place because of that...

How can anyone be as stupid as French journalists ? How on Earth, geez !

Same everywhere.
First they push the extremists (here it happened with the Five Star Movement),then they understand what kind of mess they are,and attack (even if based on little,if any,evidence).