Summary
The still-unratified Lisbon Treaty offers a possible way forward, requiring that the European Council take the results of the Euro elections into account in nominating a candidate for Commission President to be elected by the Parliament. The numbers game, always tricky, is complicated further this time by changes in party alignments - the British Conservatives leave the People's Party as the former Allianza Nazionale joins; the Liberal group looks set to receive Irish Fianna Faíl MEP's fromtheUnion for Europe of theNations group.
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Big Yawn, or Wake-Up Call?
tHESE ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE AGAINST a backdrop of the global economic crisis and alongside a rumble of European Union (EU) doubt about legitimacy. They are the first pan-European polls since Bulgaria and Romania joined two years ago.
While the economic crisis has affected all members, some have been especially badly hit, with the gov...See the full content of this document
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