Transnational lists for truly European elections : JEF votes in favour !

It's only the beginning. After MEPs adopt the proposal in the plenary session, negotiations with the Council will begin, and it will start becoming funny.

We'll see how governments extricate themselves from this question with all kinds of false excuses, saying :
– « These 25 additional MEPs would cost millions and it would be a bad signal in times of crisis » (which is also partly true) ;
– « European voters are too stupid to understand this complicated two ballot system » ;
– « We'll never be able to ratify this : look, Cameron is against » ;
– « We don't have time for this ; people don't want institutional debates, they want action » ;
– « These MEPs need to be elected locally ».

And after rejecting the proposal following a two hour debate, national governments will spend six months discussing about the 18 additional (unelected) MEPs of the Lisbon treaty, and about the « strategic » redistribution of seats for 2014, as they are certain that getting 24 MEPs instead of 23 would be seen as a « national victory » over Europe.

Well, let us prevent them from being so previsible.

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Transnational lists for truly European elections : JEF votes in favour !