European Elections Explained

The European elections are coming up, but what exactly are we voting for and why bother anyway? We explain the basics of the EU elections and give you some pointers to make up your mind.

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In this series we explain complex aspects of the EU in a comprehensive and understandable way. If however, despite our diligence and help of Dr. Jan Oster, we have left something out or made a mistake, please be so kind to tell and forgive us.

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[januaryth]

Good vídeo like always, keep up with this stuff

[Frahamen]

"EU bad because I'm to lazy to check what or how it works"

[unity]

Quick and Informative as always, keep it up!

[SebastianHonsa]

You're doing great job, man. Please continue! We need this!

[cheydinal]

The Spitzenkandidaten thing was probably the one meaningful thing that Martin Schulz actually deserves credit for, that I know of

[serdilan]

Very helpful, thank you for the video!

[maricristinacastel]

I love your voice and pronunciation!! Great info, btw, I am using this as part of the preparation for my job.

[simoneg.]

Really good video and really good links!! Thank you!!
I hope more people will see this before the elections

[skilly]

I really like the format, but it seemed as though quite a lot of content - and more complicated content - was thrown in at the end. Some might find this a bit overwhelming, and you don't want them to write off the video because they were confused at the end. Definitely keep it up, though.

[Kwb]

Who chooses the leader of each Parliamentary group? For example: say the biggest group is the Greens. Do the collective Green members make the choice?

[Т-ми]

In Ukraine we only know that the EU has some kind of cool technocratic bureaucracy to monitor member nations and also probably maybe strict regulations on something or maybe not whatever that means

[MijmerMopper]

Are there any more video's on the EU coming up? Elections are coming and I find it hard to look up reliable and digestable information as to how each party actually voted, while at the same time trying to avoid all the misinformation people honestly believe about the EU.

[ottovalkamo]

0:01 "You already voted in the LOCAL and national elections"
Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein, who don't have local elections, but only general elections: I don't have such weaknesses

[augustus]

I would really want to know more about the parties in the EU, so I know who to vote for.
Ik zou graag meer weten over de fracties in de EU, zodat ik een beter beeld heb op wie ik moet stemmen

[TheRealSyncRow]

Btw you said the person from the leading party *could* be the president. Has this happened before?

[vinnie]

So if i vote for SD in sweden, PiS can get more power in poland?

[foorack]

Very good, but almost a little bit too quick speaking. You spoke slower in the other ones. It would be difficult for me to show this to others who didn't know about the EU because English isn't their first language. EC and EP explained was easier to follow. Just some feedback. :)

[patrickstar]

You act like Id would have a say in the actual policy and laws being signed off but that's just false.
It's a representative democracy.
I get to vote for parties that has some vague alignment and make some promises but it's really not uncommon for them to say one thing and do another.

[justarandomgothamite]

As a German hearing the word "Spitzenkandidat" in an englsih vodeo is pretty jaarring

[TheRealSyncRow]

1:43 how is the eu council formed? As in how are the members of it chosen