The campaign for the 2019 European Parliamentary election in the United Kingdom did not kick off until the last moment as the country’s government had not planned to take part in the election. The UK was originally scheduled to leave the European Union on the 29th of March, but extensions of Article 50 – the legal and political process for leaving the European Union – in late March and mid-April meant that the UK had to participate in the European Parliamentary elections under EU law. Despite this, it was not until the 7th of May that UK Prime Minister...

The context The 2019 European elections were held only a few months after the October 2018 parliamentary elections. Surveys for the latter elections had predicted that the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) would win votes and return into government after being an opposition party for the second time since World War II during the 2013-2018 parliament. In the end, the CSV lost 5.2 percentage points of the national vote and two of its parliamentary seats, while the government coalition of the liberal DP, the social democratic LSAP and the Greens kept a majority of seats (31 out of 60) and...

  Introduction 2019 European elections in Croatia were held in a very different political environment than previous EP elections. Economic conditions have improved as GDP growth resumed in 2015, unemployment has declined by more than a half and the government fiscal position has also improved. However, the entry into the EU and expiration of the restrictions on the free movement of labour produced a mass emigration of mostly younger population towards countries of Western Europe. Thus, despite the migrant crisis that affected Croatia in 2015 and 2016, and the constant pressure of migration on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, it...

di Patrick Dumont and Raphaël Kies Il contesto Per la prima volta dal 1979, in Lussemburgo le elezioni europee si sono svolte separatamente rispetto alle elezioni politiche nazionali. La simultaneità delle elezioni fu decisa prima delle prime elezioni dirette del Parlamento Europeo (dal momento che anche i parlamentari lussemburghesi erano eletti per un mandato di 5 anni e le successive elezioni si sarebbero in ogni caso tenute nel 1979) e la stabilità dei governi ha fatto si che tutte le sette precedenti elezioni europee e politiche cadessero nello stesso giorno, con le conseguenze che ne derivano. Ad esempio, dal momento che...

I risultati delle elezioni europee del 26 maggio 2019 a Genova seguono il trend generale già emerso in molte altre città italiane. Osserviamo dunque la Tabella 1 per avere un’immagine dettagliata dei voti in termini assoluti e percentuali ottenuti dai vari partiti nel capoluogo ligure, durante le elezioni europee del 2014, le politiche del 2018 e le europee dello scorso 26 maggio. Alcuni dati saltano subito all’occhio. Innanzitutto, emerge la crescita al 30% (77.044 elettori in valore assoluto) del Partito Democratico, in termini di consensi elettorali raggiunti, rispetto alle politiche del 2018 dove aveva raccolto 66.523 voti (il 22%), risultando essere...