A parliament in search of voters

The European institutions are often accused of being too distant from the citizens whose lives they increasingly regulate. Yet paradoxically, in most countries people have constantly failed to make the most of the main means at their disposal for influencing these institutions. Will the June 2004 European elections mark a turning point in the increasingly low voter turnout of the past 25 years? This article presents the results of a socio-political study into the causes of this paradox

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