Elections

“The only possible path to becoming a real democracy is a revolution”

Dasha Shkarupina from Belarus gives us an overview of the challenging and dangerous campaign trail in her country.

Sunday 9 August 2020

Desperately close: how a liberal pro-European almost became the President of Poland

Polish citizen Jan Sztanka-Tóth analyses what the results of last night’s presidential elections in Poland mean for country and continent.

Monday 13 July 2020

Beyond green waves and new governments: France’s political landscape in 2020

Madelaine Pitt and Théo Boucart examine the state of French politics in light of the recent local elections.

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Germans crown Lithuania as winner in their own Eurovision final

Wasn’t Eurovision supposed to be cancelled? Not in Germany, explains Juuso Järviniemi

Saturday 16 May 2020

Interview with Maria Popczyk: “My experience of the Polish election campaign”

Maria Popczyk, Editor-in-Chief of our Polish sister publication, Kurier Europejski, was in Poland during the recent election campaign. In this interview with our Editor-in-Chief Madelaine Pitt, she tells us about the victory of the Law and Justice Party, what it means for Poland and the EU and (...)

Wednesday 1 January 2020

Normalisation and Fragmentation: Interview with Prof. Dr. Schimmelfennig on the Evolution of the European Parliament

Madelaine Pitt interviewed the renowned EU scholar Prof. Dr. Schimmelfennig following a conference organised by JEF Konstanz.

Thursday 28 November 2019

From Istanbul to Budapest, cities are bucking up against authority

The weekend of the 12th of October was full of elections. New Zealand re-elected their local government and voted for a member of the nationalist party to be the new Mayor of Wellington (the country’s capital). Tunisians entrusted the role of President to a conservative legal expert. In Vorarlberg, Austria, 43% voted for the chancellor’s conservative party. Poland also renewed its relationship with their national conservative party, PiS, and Hungarians were called to vote in their local elections.

Wednesday 27 November 2019

Polish elections: a mixed bag for the eurosceptic ruling party

A glance at the election results in Poland and what they mean for the country and the EU

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Review: How is the 2019–2024 EU political spectrum taking shape?

Week after week, the composition of EU political groups for the 2019–2024 term is taking shape. As Ursula Von Der Leyen was elected as the next President of the European Commission, the next step is for her to form the college of Commissioners. The European Parliament elected its President, its (...)

Monday 22 July 2019

MEP Damian Boeselager: “We need more transnational politics”

Damian Boeselager is a newly elected MEP from Germany. Aged 31 years old and coming from the transnational party Volt Europa that he co-founded in 2017, he will sit with the Greens at the European Parliament. The think tank Confrontations Europe had the chance to interview him ahead of the (...)

Thursday 18 July 2019

European elections: Young people chose Europe!

Despite the far-right Rassemblement National (previously known as Front National) coming first in the European elections in France, the results of the elections in both France and all of Europe are promising for the EU. JEF-France gives three reasons. 1. Historic participation of European (...)

Saturday 8 June 2019

European elections in Hungary: Orbán’s strategy paid off

In Hungary, Fidesz, the national-conservative party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, came out on top with more than 52% of votes in the European elections, thus getting 13 of the 21 seats allocated to Hungary in the European Parliament. New faces of the Hungarian opposition, Orbán’s ambition to make a difference in the reconfiguration of the European right, and uncertainties over his party’s alliance in the plenary chamber: Anais de la Fonchais explains.

Wednesday 5 June 2019
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