European Election stories:
BNP support in poll sparks anger
Oct 24th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Nick Griffin is complaining he had faced a 'lynch mob'
Peter Hain says his fears have been proved right after a poll suggested support for the BNP has risen after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time.NI anti-BNP protests outside BBC
Oct 23rd, 2009 - BBC NEWS
A protest was staged outside BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast
Protests against BNP leader Nick Griffin's Question Time appearance have been staged in Belfast and Londonderry.Spoof depicting Gordon Brown as Adolf Hitler becomes YouTube hit
Jun 11th, 2009 - Telegraph
The clip called 'Brownfall' shows the Prime Minister as Hitler with a running commentary to his reaction to the European Election results, Labour's worst defeat in 99 years. In the video...
What's the best way to fight the BNP?
Jun 10th, 2009 - The Independent
As Nick Griffin drove towards Westminster to celebrate the British National Party's European election success he would have been hoping for a decent turnout for the press conference he had planned. Ever the savvy media operator...
DUP to reshuffle ministerial team
Jun 9th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Nigel Dodds replaced Peter Robinson as finance minister There are strong indications that DUP deputy leader and finance minister Nigel Dodds will step down from the Stormont Executive.
European Election videos from YouTube:
0:31European elections TV Spot with Jahanna Klum -German version
European elections TV Spot with Jahanna Klum -German version
5:00European elections: results in Germany and Ireland
IN THE FIELD: Conservative parties decisively beat Socialists in the EU parliamentary elections which ended Sunday, marred by a new record-low turnout. Significant gains were made by far-right parties across Europe.
4:58UKIP European Election Broadcast 2009 Number 1
The UK Independence Party's first European election broadcast for 2009.
8:01EU Parliament spends 15 mln euro on its own election campaign
The European Elections Communication Campaign of the European parliament is the topic of this Eurinfo programme produced under supervision of the bureau of the European parliament. 0 29Magdalena PECKSKAMP, in German 1 11Vox pops ...
European Election from WikiPedia:
Elections in the European Union take place every five years by universal adult suffrage. 736 MEPs are elected to the European Parliament which has been directly elected since 1979. No other body is directly elected although the Council of the European Union and European Council is largely composed of nationally elected officials.
There is no uniform voting system for the election of MEPs; rather, each member state is free to choose its own system, subject to three restrictions:
- The system must be a form of proportional representation, under either the party list or Single Transferable Vote system.
- The electoral area may be subdivided if this will not generally affect the proportional nature of the voting system.
- Any election threshold on the national level must not exceed five percent.
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