There is certainly a movement to the centre right and the right and i suppose that is perhaps as a response to a fairly left and green agenda over the last five years and i think it is certainly a challenge for the citizens of europe to solve the policies that are being pursued at european level. even though the green party did so well last time five years ago. the european parliament had two flagship for the past few years. the first was the green deal, dramatically reducing carbon emissions and greening europe and the other was around digitalisation and regulation and i think the rhetoric we have heard in recent months in particular through the moderate parties of the centre particularly renew which is the liberal party of french president emmanuel macron and from the ep p the centre right group
Whom. rodney, would you like to seen ethics investigation? i - seen ethics investigation? i don t think we need an ethics investigation because, frankly, unfortunately, we are at the most unfortunately, we are at the most transparent era of the supreme court. not too long ago nojustice, supreme court. not too long ago nojustice, republican or no justice, republican or democrat nojustice, republican or democrat in the history of the supreme democrat in the history of the supreme court had to disclose any of supreme court had to disclose any of these things. i agree. i think any of these things. i agree. i think we any of these things. i agree. i think we need more transparency in the think we need more transparency in the supreme court. when i was in the supreme court. when i was in in the supreme court. when i was in congress i led an effort to make was in congress i led an effort to make sure that every single expense to make sure that every single expense that any
Big election and, of course it is notjust the election of the parliament itself but then the parliament itself but then the parliament will have to confirm the executive, the european commission which will be nominated over the course of the summer. it has huge political consequences for europe and so it is obviously important the people go and vote this weekend. vote this weekend. different countries vote this weekend. different countries vote vote this weekend. different countries vote in vote this weekend. different countries vote in different i countries vote in different ways the popular party is a states, general elections are not always the winning candidates in european elections. what do you expect to see in terms of parties of user policies that might do well this weekend?- user policies that might do well this weekend? earlier this ear well this weekend? earlier this year there well this weekend? earlier this year there was well this weekend? earlier this year the
There is a big issue when it comes to security and when it comes to keeping track of all the people that come in. i think that europe doesn t have the capacity to receive that many people. for more on this, i spoke to lucinda creighton, ireland s former minister for european affairs, and senior fellow at the centre for european policy analysis. for our viewers around the world, lucinda, put into context for how important the eu parliament elections are. over 370 million people are eligible to vote. what sort of significance or power do meps have? quite a lot, actually. in the early days of the european parliament, it wasn t a powerful legislature, but over various treaty changes and constitutional change in europe, over the decades, it has become extremely powerful. it is basically the co decision maker now for almost all aspects of legislation.
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