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The Political System of the European Union Simon Hix, Bjorn Hoyland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

I've heard that students in Finland have a course about the political system and voting at school. Enslaves through consumer debt and an illusion we can buy our happiness. Despite a strong support for the far right, the radical anti-austerity left maintained and increased its . A UKIP win in the European Parliament elections would have a significant impact on European politics, with a big anti-EU bloc possibly disrupting the work of the Parliament in Brussels. This could be a good way to engage adolescents in the UK, too. 3 days ago - Last week, voters across the 28 member states of the European Union turned out to vote for their representatives in the European Parliament, and while the usual mainstream political parties still hold a solid majority, the strong and sudden rise of anti-euro, anti-EU parties on both the far right and the far left have rocked the long-reigning system in what France's Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls called “more than a warning. This was an anti-immigration, Islamophobic vote. It was also the rejection of the European Union. 2 days ago - The future of the political system in Great Britain is not represented by a new party. 4 days ago - France suffered a political earthquake on Sunday as the far-right National Front (FN) topped the polls in European elections with an unprecedented haul of one in every four votes cast, exit polls indicated. May 21, 2014 - UKIP campaigns for an immediate exit from the EU and for tougher immigration regulations. 3 days ago - Dave Kellaway examines the results of the European Union elections and the impact of the far right UKIP on the traditional pro-austerity parties. Which Erdogan's ruling party scored a stunning victory—earned Turkey strong rebuke from rights groups deploring the curbs as a setback to freedom of expression in the country that hopes to join the European Union. Average results from five polling institutes pointed to the anti-immigration, anti-EU party led by Marine Le Pen taking 24-25% of the popular vote and around a third -- between 23 and 25 -- of France's 74 seats in the European Parliament. May 20, 2014 - His words speak to a geopolitical awakening in the heart of the European Union and sum up the bewilderment of many European leaders who thought they were at the “end of history” and that territorial aggression in Europe was obsolete. Just as in France the effect of the rise of far right, nationalist parties with racist policies is to shift the entire political system to the right. 6 days ago - The united states like in the European Union is but a corporate communist/fascist banking system. Perhaps the point which the EP elections highlight more than any other is how much the motors and breaks of the party systems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) resemble the developments in Western Europe. 11 hours ago - They write that while there has been a tendency to regard CEE states as distinct from those in Western Europe, this perspective is largely outdated and analyses of EU-wide political trends should pay as much attention to smaller states in the East as . On the other hand the danger that by casting Russia out of the international institutions they have spent 20 years trying to bind it into, they will help dismantle an international system on which Europe's prosperity depends. 10 hours ago - YouTube has been banned in Turkey since March 27 after the site was used to spread audio recordings where senior government, military and intelligence officials are allegedly heard weighing possible military action inside war-torn Syria. May 20, 2014 - Simon Hobday, Partner at Pinsent Masons and Advisory Board Member for POWER-GEN Europe considers the complex factors shaping the evolution of Europe's power markets and the operational and commercial impacts seen so far.