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Written by Marcin Grajewski,
Citizens of the European Union go the polls in May 2019 in elections to the European Parliament which many analysts say may be the most important ever. Commentators are currently focused on the prospective performance of anti-establishment parties and movements, many of which run on Eurosceptic platforms. The vote will also indicate if the so-called Spitzenkandidatenprocess, launched by the European political parties five years ago, has become an established practice. If followed as in 2014, the candidate from the political force that receives the highest number of seats in the European elections would become the President of the European Commission.
This note offers links to reports and commentaries from some major international think-tanks and research institutes on the forthcoming European elections and related issues.
A cordon populiste from the Baltic to the Adriatic Sea:
Is a new populist alliance emerging in the EU?
Istituto Affari Internazionali, January 2019
2019 European Parliament elections will change the EU’s
political dynamics
Carnegie Europe, December 2018
Les modes de scrutin et les enjeux des élections
européennes de mai 2019
Fondation Robert Schuman, December 2018
European Parliament elections 2019: The litmus test for
the Spitzenkandidaten process
Centre for European Reform,
December 2018
European election 2019 monitor
Friedrich
Ebert Stiftung, December 2018
Policies and politics of migration towards the European
elections
Istituto Affari
Internazionali, December 2018
Europe matters, but how do we tell young people that?
Friends of Europe, December 2018
Ten elections to watch in 2019
Council on Foreign Relations, December 2018
The European Parliament after the elections
Clingendael, November 2018
European elections 2019: What will the new Parliament’s
composition be?
Fondation Robert Schuman, November 2018
Negotiating the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework in
an electoral year: Which consequences?
Jacques Delors Institute, November 2018
25 years of Spitzenkandidaten: What does the future hold?
Wilfried Martens Centre, November 2018
Millennial dialogue on Europe: Shaping the new EU agenda
Foundation for European Progressive
Studies, Think Young, November 2018
What impact would a no deal Brexit have on European
Parliament elections?
Jacques Delors Institute, November 2018
The power of the past: How nostalgia shapes European
public opinion
Bertelsmann Stiftung,
October 2018
Schatten über den Europawahlen
Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik, October 2018
European election 2019: Can we cry wolf one more time?
European Council on Foreign Relations,
October 2018
Election interference in the digital age: Building
resilience to cyber-enabled threats
European Political Strategy Centre, October
2018
Could an illiberal Europe work?
Carnegie Europe,
October 2018
Attentes et ressentis, l’état des opinions publiques
avant les élections européennes
Jacques Delors
Institute, October 2018
Towards elections with integrity
Open Society Foundations, October 2018
Programmatic Europeanization revisited: The role of EP
election proximity, EU support and Eastern European patterns
Centre for Policy Studies, September 2018
Spitzenkandidaten and shifting electorates: Towards the
2019 EP elections
Institute for Development and International
Relations, September 2018
EP elections forecasts: EU trade policies from 2019
VoteWatch Europe, September 2018
EP elections forecast: EU data protection policies from
2019
VoteWatch Europe, September 2018
The Trump-Juncker meeting in DC raises urgent questions
for the next Commission
Centre for European Policy Studies, August
2018
Strengthening parliamentary voices in the EU’s
multi-level system
Jacques Delors
Institute, June 2018
Comparing democratic distress in the United States and
Europe
Carnegie Europe,
June 2018
The composition of the European Parliament in 2019
Fundacion Real Instituto Elcano, March 2018
The problem with the Spitzenkandidaten system
Centre for
Policy Studies, February 2018
Read this briefing on ‘European elections‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
