What is in Store for us With the Upcoming European Elections in May? The European Union between Deconstruction and Relaunching

Friday 26, April, 2019 19:30h - Friday 26, April, 2019

Palau Solterra, Torroella de Montgrí

Lecture by Dr Víctor Pou, PhD. in Law, with a BA in Economics from the University of Barcelona, a BA in Humanities from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and a diploma in European Integration from the University of Amsterdam.

This upcoming month of May, elections to the European Parliament will be held. The new representatives will be elected by all member states of the European Union, for the legislature encompassing the period from 2019 to 2024. These are not just any elections. For a long period of time, for many European countries these elections have been seen as days off from work, arousing relatively weak interest and low participation rates.  They did not seem to be meant to choose a government, and European citizens tended to believe that the Union worked well enough, so that there was little to worry about. However, in recent years this has begun to change.