European Parliament Elections stories:
Why exactly do people vote for the BNP?
Oct 22nd, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, will appear on BBC One's Question Time on Thursday. We visited one of the areas where the party has support to find...
Deborah Hobson: Bring On The BNP - Out Of The Shadows
Jun 9th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Marc Wadsworth is Editor of The-latest.com, Britain's first dedicated citizen journalism website. I am Deputy Editor at The-Latest. Marc is a broadcaster, writer and political activist...
Low turnout marks European Parliament vote
Jun 8th, 2009 - UPI
BRUSSELS, June 8 (UPI) -- Turnout for the 2009 European Parliament elections was the lowest since direct election for the assembly began 30 years ago, officials said.Just 43.
Conservatives Post Gains In European Elections
Jun 8th, 2009 - Washington Post
BRUSSELS, June 7 -- Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France...
Sweden's Government Wins Slim Victory in EU Parliament Vote
Jun 7th, 2009 - Bloomberg
June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sweden’s ruling coalition led byPrime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt won a slim victory over theopposition in European Parliament elections in a welcome...
European Parliament Elections videos from YouTube:
2:28Romania's European Parliament Elections
Two short news items (in Romanian language) about Romania's upcoming EP elections (scheduled for 25 November 2007). These reports are from a conference on the EP elections which was organised by CNA/Internews in September 2007.
1:58Key issues for the June European Parliamentary elections?
www.europarl.europa.eu From 4-7 June millions of people will have their chance to vote in the European Parliament elections. The people they elect will sit until 2014 and will play a major role in Europe's political future. "All politics is local" as one sage once said ...
8:00European Parliament elections 1979 -2009
With less than a week to go before the start of the biggest-ever European elections, this program analyzes the fading turnout in the EU parliament vote in the last 30 years.
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 Parliament 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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