#European Parliament

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Just a reminder to my European followers that the European Parliament elections are coming up and they are very important! The far-right parties are projected to win a lot of seats and many of the left/environmentalist parties are expected to do poorly.

This could have serious implications for major issues like climate action in the EU. It is very important that young people turn out to vote, EU elections typically have relatively low turnout but the composition of the EU Parliament does impact the lives of people in the European Union in a lot of ways.

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so....

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In honour of the EU Parliamentary Elections, let me briefly interrupt the staple frev/classics posting and tell you about the terrible, beautiful insanity that is the Czech political scene.

Okay, so we have three brothers who are all in politics, except each of them is in a party that is diametrically opposed to the other two.

The most famous one of them is a notorious right-wing populist who made his fame by running on the 'I hate foreigners and immigrants' platform (even though he's half Japanese)

The other one would almost be a decent guy, except he is a member of a Christian party that continues to push for 'traditional values'

The youngest one is a gay architect who aligns himself with what is arguably the most progressive party on the current Czech political scene

I know it sounds like something straight out of a sitcom, but I swear that I'm not making this up

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[the-only-hope-for-me-is-coffee]

america centered ass website. europe goes downhill and noone even knows about it on here. anyway fuck afd and fuck everyone who voted against democracy in the european parliament elections.

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Get in loser, we're taxing the rich!

There's an official proposal to the EU to tax the rich!

You only need to be a EU citizen to sing it. The goal is 1 million signatures before october 2024, and we're already at 140.000!

If you need extra incentive to sign, the French have the most signatures as of right now. You wouldn't want the French to be better than you, right? And if you are French, well, Italians are second right now, you wouldn't want the Italians to catch up, right?

Please reblog so more people can see, EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT FROM THE EU!

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[vyorei]

Irish MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan calling for Ursula Von der Leyen to resign for her unwavering support of Genocidal Israel, he brought receipts.

IRELAND STANDS WITH PALESTINE ALWAYS 🇵🇸💜🇮🇪

Source: @lukeming on Twitter

Video below:

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hemicycle // luxembourg kirchberg

architect: pierre bohler

completion: 1979

the hemicycle on the kirchberg plateau is an incredibly futuristic building that is somewhat hidden in the middle of the kirchberg forest. it looks like a film set for a dystopian film, so overgrown and lonely it stands on the road. fun fact: the european parliament, for which the building was originally built, only met four times in this building.

das hemicycle auf dem kirchbergplateau ist ein unglaublich schönes futuristisches Gebäude welches sich aber etwas versteckt mitten im wald des kirchberges befindet. es wirkt wie eine Kulisse für einen dystropischen film, so eingewachsen und einsam es an der straße steht. fun-fact ist das, das europäische parlament, für welches das gebäude ursprünglich gebaut wurde, nur viermal in diesem tagte.

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🚨 Breaking: The International Democracy Union—an international coalition of right-wing parties, including @EPP, the largest party in the European 🇪🇺 Parliament—just adopted a resolution condemning ICC, and boycotting @UNRWA.

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This official European government website explains how you can participate and vote in the Parliament Election on June 9th 2024. (In some countries as early as June 6th)

It asks you to select your country and then offers languages in which the explanation is available. It also contains an extensive FAQ for things you might want to know about the election, about voting per mail, about registering to vote, etc. etc.

“How to” für deutsche Staatsbürger:

Wie wähle ich in Deutschland?

Briefwahl

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Fiery Member European Parliament Christine Anderson (Highlights)

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MEP MICK WALLACE SLAMS EU FOR FAILURE TO TAKE ACTION ON GAZA

📹 MEP Mick Wallace slams the European Parliament for its failure to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire and condemning the Israeli occupation for its war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"The international legal system is at stake," Wallace says in a statement. "The Palestinians are being murdered in the tens of thousands."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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Info about European Parliament elections

Because the elections to the European Parliament are approaching (6-9 of June), I wanted to make some kind of master post about it to see if I understand it better and to give some tips. But I forgot we're talking about the fucking European Union and all its levels and sublevels and the respect to each country doing whatever the fuck they want. You may want to watch the series Parliament. It's funny and you will understand how the EU works better than I could ever explain it (I am not kidding).

THANKFULLY, the EU knows the mess it all is and they created a very clear and easy to use website just for this: https://elections.europa.eu.

It gives you general info and a guide for your country. I want to kiss in the mouth to whoever designed the website and wrote the text. Whatever it is they are paid, it's not enough.

IF READING THIS POST IN ENGLISH IS HARD FOR YOU, THAT WEBSITE, AS MOST EU WEBSITES/INFO, IS TRANSLATED INTO EVERY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE EU.

The most important thing about these elections is that the European Parliament represents the interests of the European citizens. Copying from that website I gave: The European Commission is the EU’s executive branch, responsible for proposing and implementing EU law and the day-to-day running of the EU. The European Parliament, representing the interests of EU citizens, and the Council, representing the interests of the countries, shape Commission proposals and, if they agree on them, adopt them.

This is important to know because the Parliament will elect the new President of the European Commission who later will examine and approve the entire College of Commissioners. But this is another thing, so go check wikipedia about the President of the European Comission. In the last elections there was some mix-up between the candidate, the system and who ended up being president (current president is Ursula von der Leyen, chosen in 2019).

The European parliament is separated into 7 political groups. 23 members are necessary to create a group and each group must represent at least a quarter of the countries in the EU (again, watch Parliament, this is very well explained there in a fun way). Here you can find the list of the political groups (if you click each link, they send you to the website of the group and you can look for who/which party from your country is part of it). Some people do not belong to any political group.

From what I see, those 7 political groups include:

4 Right-wing groups (some say "center-right" but they may be right-right. 2 of them are clearly called something like "Christian democrats" or "Conservatives")

1 green party

1 left party

1 center-leftish party

Not all of the websites for these political groups are in several languages of the EU, but they are all in English. Here you can see how many members of the parliament belong to each group by country. In short, you can see where your country is leaning in the European parliament. For instance, Spain has 13 christian democrats, 9 "center-right" and 4 right vs 21 "center-left", 3 green and 6 left, plus 3 non registered in any group for a total of 59 members.

In reality, we do not vote for those political groups. We vote for politicians in our countries and then, they, if they want, they join one group or another. In short, if you vote a left-wing party from your country, it is likely that they will be part of The Left political group of the European parliament.

Historically, over 50% of the parliament is a group of right and another group of center-right. No sé qué de los nazis por Europa estos últimos años. This is how it looks like right now. The yellow party is right-wing adjacent too (Renew Europe), so you can see how it currently looks for the left (green and red colours, where the dark red colour is The Left and the bright red is center-left). The gray one do not belong to any political group.

In other elections, about 50% of the population did not vote (which may be why there are more right-wing parties than others, just saying).

So yeah, vote. This organ represents you and your interests directly. They are the ones who adopt laws that affect anyone and everyone.

Vote because the European Parliament is your voice in the EU.

[hard--headed--woman]

Et puisque je vois tous les partis de gauche et leurs sympathisants pleurer, se plaindre et manifester, je tiens à dire que je blâme totalement la gauche et en particulier LFI pour ce qui est en train de se passer. Au bout d'un moment il faut arrêter de pleurer parce que l'extrême droite avance considérablement et affronter la réalité en face : si les gens votent de plus en plus à l'extrême droite, c'est parce que la gauche (et la macronie, je ne l'oublie pas) est une immense blague qui a oublié ses valeurs de base, ne sait rien faire d'autre que dire "bloquons l'extrême droite!" et agir/parler/proposer des mesures juste pour provoquer celle-ci, qui n'a aucun argument solide pour quoique ce soit et débite un tas de conneries absolument incommensurable à la minute. Macron nous baise continuellement depuis 2017 et la gauche est remplie de clowns, évidemment que les gens se tournent vers l'extrême droite. Maintenant essayez de trouver d'autres convictions que "ouin ouin l'extrême droite est dangereuse bloquons la" et "légalisons tout et n'importe quoi sans réfléchir juste parce que la droite s'y oppose!" (façon de penser qui, d'ailleurs, a offert le pouvoir deux fois à Macron) et peut-être que l'extrême droite cessera d'avancer, parce qu'à ce rythme là après l'Europe on aura Bardella pour président bientôt.