Hot topics in the European election

[Middle-aged Europe]

- Climate change
- Who's gonna be the next Commission President
- Not entirely sure about the third one... EU copyright reform is seemingly very important to a somewhat limited number of people. So I gotta go with a very much polarized "fighting/strengthening right-wing populists"/"curtailing/protecting immigrants" mega-issue.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Really? No. I mean REALLY no!

Yes, REALLY.

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

My response in this thread was based on what voters most frequently tend to ask me right now during the election campaign.

[Middle-aged Europe]

I guess you work as a campaign aide and as a member of the Greens you might have a very educated and politicized audience.

I come contact with pretty much everyone, inluding (unfortunately) AfD voters. The AfD people do indeed not care about such questions. The Commission President question seems to come most frequently from SPD-Green swing voters ("I want to vote Green this time because the SPD sucks so badly, but I also don't want Weber as Commission President, so how do you stand on this issue?").

Maybe I ought to have made it clear in the OP that I'm referring to the media's coverage for certain topics.

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.

[Middle-aged Europe]

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.
 

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.)

(Plus, everybody knows that Timmermans won't have the slightest chance of becoming CP.)
 

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"?

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.
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I don't see the relevance of that statement or what you're getting at here. Politically interested or "educated" voters don't really count, because...??

Beyond the TV debates there is hardly any discussion about the election of the CP.

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...



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