European Elections stories:
Pugnacious Loser in Ukraine Remains Curiously Silent
Feb 9th, 2010 - New York Times
percentage points, and european election monitors offered the election ´high marks for integrity and transparency
Ukraine's election highlights its east-west divide
Feb 5th, 2010 - Washington Post
european integration and building pragmatic ties with former imperial master russia, which supplies
Ballot fraud row simmers in Togo
Mar 6th, 2010 - BBC NEWS
the directors after european union observers raised concerns about the fairness of the presidential vote.
they found a lack of transparency when results were sent to the national election commission electronically.
both the sitting presidentUS urges speedy return to democracy in Niger
Feb 22nd, 2010 - CNN
return to democracy and the rule of law, as well as prompt, fair and transparent elections," said state department spokesman philip crowley in quotes carried by agence france-presse. he added that the united states was "gratified" by the strong
European Elections videos from YouTube:
8:10agora special - european elections 2009 - part 1
Outgoing Parliament : Did Europe deliver? Our exclusive debate with the heads of seven parliamentary groups. Our guests are Monica Frassoni of the Greens, Nigel Farage from Independence and Democracy, Graham Watson of the European Liberal & Democratic Alliance ...
1:58European Elections 2009: The making of....
Hundreds of people at the European parliament are working on a range of projects to get people to vote in the European elections in June. This video clip is one of the videos made available by the parliament to broadcasters.
11:48European elections, democratic deficit analysis, right-wing parties: zeus May 2009
www.fdcw.org The European Elections are less than a month away, and still, very few Europeans are familiar with what is going on in the run-up to the elections. This edition of Zeus provides background information on some of the issues behind the Brussels scene.
European Elections 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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