European elections: an opportunity not to be missed
Notre Europe's viewpoint | 20/05/2009 
For thirty years this year the Union's citizens have been called on to vote for their representatives inside Europe's institutions. Today's European Parliament is mature and powerful - exciting even, if you choose to take an interest. In our pages devoted to these European elections we will help the reader to grasp the stakes of the event and to decrypt the political options at European level.
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Partis européens : le débat
Agenda | 20/05/2009
Notre Europe, Europanova, le Mouvement européen France, France 24, RFI et les partenaires du projet Votons l'Europe vous invitent le 3 juin à venir débattre avec des représentants des partis européens.
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L'action de l'Union répond-elle aux préférences des citoyens ?
Policy brief by Renaud Dehousse | 17/05/2009
A en croire les sondages, à quelques semaines du scrutin, seul un tiers des électeurs seraient disposés à se rendre aux urnes aux prochaines élections européennes. A dire vrai, ce résultat dérangeant est à l'enseigne de la continuité, puisque le taux de participation tend à baisser à chaque scrutin.
Democracy in the EU and the Role of the European Parliament
Study by Federal Trust, Institut fà¼r Europà¤ische Politik, Centro Studi sul Federalismo, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Notre Europe | 12/03/2009
In the view of the upcoming 2009 EP elections, five institutes came together in order to carry out a study on this curcial topic. The main aim of the initiative was not only to launch (once again) the proposal that European political parties nominate candidates for the post of President of the European Commission, but also to advocate that the European Parliament play a more crucial and central role, in terms of both exercising its power and undertaking inter-institutional dialogue.