The European Parliament elections of 2024 marked the tenth occasion for Europeans to directly elect their representatives at a supranational level. Since 1979, universal suffrage has enabled citizens to be at the heart of the decisions that affect their lives at the European level. This book surveys these ten formative milestones, their roots, and their implications for the future. The contributors, some of them firsthand actors or witnesses of the events, provide a compelling overview of the elections, covering a wide range of perspectives. Through both scholarly and hands-on approaches, the authors consider the ten European elections in their historical context, from the first steps towards a fully democratic Parliament to the gradual widening of its powers, with meaningful reflections on the future prospects of European democracy.
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Ten Elections. A history of the European Parliament at the ballot box (1979-2024) is the third of a series of commemorative publications promoted by the Jean Monnet House of the European Parliament and the European Observatory on Memories of the University of Barcelona’s Solidarity Foundation in collaboration with the Istituto di Studi Federalisti Altiero Spinelli and with the support of the programme Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) of the European Commission.
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Editor
Michele Fiorillo
Editorial board
Oriol López, Debora Righetti, Fernanda Zanuzzi
Contributions
- Enrique Carlos Barón Crespo (Former MEP)
- Brando Benifei (MEP)
- Stefano Castagnoli (Institute of Federalist Studies Altiero Spinelli)
- Richard Corbett (Former MEP)
- Alfredo De Feo (Scientific Director at the European College of Parma)
- Pier Virgilio Dastoli (European Movement)
- Domènec Devesa (MEP)
- Marti Grau (Jean Monnet House)
- Jordi Guixe (University of Barcelona/ European Observatory on Memories – EUROM)
- Danuta Hübner (MEP)
- Christine Manigand (Université Paris 3)
- Ines Nauwelaers (Maison Jean Monnet)
- Sophia Russack (CEPS)
- Christelle Savall (/President of JEF Europe)
- Michael Shackleton (Lecturer and writer on EU affairs)
- Ilke Toygür (Global Policy Center)
- Luisa Trumellini (UEF)
- Nadine Vasseur (Journalist and Writer)
The publication is under an Attribution-Non-Commerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Limited edition, 2024. 180 pages. Legal deposit: B 9445-2024