On Tuesday, Parliament adopted its proposals to strengthen the democratic dimension of the 2024 elections, and for the lead candidate system. The report, which received 365 votes for, 178 against, and 71 abstentions, calls for measures to boost voter turnout during the 6-9 June 2024 elections beyond the increased figures recorded in 2019. Parliament’s focus […]
Conference “The European Union and its Global Challenges”.
The European Documentation Centre in Almeria is organising the conference “The European Union and its global challenges” on 20 October. The conference, which will be held in person in the Salón de Grados of the Government Building and Paraninfo of the University of Almeria and will be simultaneously broadcast in streaming through our YouTube channel, […]
European Parliament convenes grants to inform 2024 European elections
The European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Communication published on 27 April a new grant programme, this time aimed at non-profit organisations and citizens, to promote awareness of the role of the European Parliament and its impact on citizens, as well as to increase participation in the next European elections in 2024. Non-profit organisations operating at national […]
European Parliament calls for coordinated strategy to protect 2024 European elections against foreign interference
Parliament calls for a coordinated strategy to increase the EU’s resilience to foreign interference and information manipulation and protect the 2024 European elections . Foreign interference, disinformation, and attacks on democracy are likely to continue in ever-greater numbers and to become more sophisticated in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in June 2024, say […]
European Parliament calls for a coordinated EU strategy against foreign interference
Political elites in the EU advancing Gazprom’s agenda and Hungary’s susceptibility to Russian intelligence activities are among many examples named in the new report. The EU needs a coordinated strategy against foreign interference and information manipulation (FIMI), including measures to enforce better existing provisions to fight it, say MEPs in a report adopted on Wednesday. […]
The 2019 European elections: A pro-European – and young – electorate with clear expectations
European Parliament publishes first results of its post-electoral Eurobarometer survey. Results of the survey A significant increase in young people with a pro-European mind-set cast a vote in the 2019 European elections, according to an in-depth Eurobarometer survey across all 28 member states. Conducted in the weeks after the elections, nearly 28.000 citizens throughout the […]
European elections: Results in Spain and new composition of the European Parliament
Available now the first projections of the composition of the new European Parliament, in which the European People’s Party would rise as the winner, and the results of the European elections in Spain, where PSOE wins with 32% of the votes. European results The results of the 2019 European elections held this Sunday 26 […]
EU recognises progress made by digital platforms to combat misinformation
The European Commission published the reports and analysis of the progress made in April 2019 by Facebook, Google and Twitter to fight disinformation. The three online platforms are signatories to the Code of Practice against disinformation and have committed to report monthly on measures taken ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2019. Main […]
Press accreditation for the 2019 European elections now open
Journalists can now apply for special accreditation to be able to follow the European elections from the European Parliament. Journalists who wish to attend election days at the European Parliament must submit an accreditation request online. Special accreditation will not only cover the election evening of 26 May but also the whole weekend of 23-27 […]