{"id":7264,"date":"2014-05-16T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/?post_type=cu-events&p=7264"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:33:47","slug":"8th-european-parliament-elections-interpret-results","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/cu-events\/8th-european-parliament-elections-interpret-results\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2014 European Parliament Elections: A Step Forward for Democracy in the European Union?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Centre for European Studies and the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue invite you to<\/h4>\n

a roundtable discussion of the 8th European Parliament Election Results<\/h3>\n

With Klaus H\u00e4nsch, Achim Hurrelmann, and Jon Pammett<\/h5>\n

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Registration for this event is required.\u00a0 Please see form below.<\/em><\/p>\n

The European Parliament elections in May 2014 were the first European voting opportunity after the Eurozone financial crisis. They resulted in a surge of Euroskeptic parties in some member states, but produced no consistent Europe-wide partisan trend. In spite of attempts to turn the elections into a decision about EU leadership personnel, voter turnout did not rise. This event analyzes the outcome of the elections. It examines the main themes of the campaign, voter mobilization, and the results in different member states. It also analyzes the composition of the new European Parliament, paying particular attention to the strength of Euroskeptic parties. Finally, the event discusses whether the elections \u2013 the first held under the rules of the Lisbon Treaty \u2013 have constituted a step forward in the creation of EU-wide democracy.<\/p>\n

Klaus H\u00c4NSCH<\/a> was President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, and Member for Germany (SPD) in the European Parliament from 1979 to 2009. Klaus H\u00e4nsch\u2019s activities in the European Parliament<\/a> focused on European Foreign Affairs and Security policy, on enlargement of the European Union towards Central and Eastern European Countries, especially Poland, and on the institutional development of the European Union. He was Presidium-Member of the Convention drafting a European Constitution, and Member of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Constitutional Treaty for the European Union from 2002 to 2004. He has twice been front-runner for the German Social-democrats in the European election campaigns.<\/p>\n

Achim HURRELMANN<\/a> is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, and Associate Director\u00a0of Carleton University\u2019s Center for European Studies<\/em>, where he coordinates the research group on \u2018social integration and citizenship\u2019.\u00a0 He is also an elected member of the governing board of the European Community Studies Association \u2013 Canada<\/em>.\u00a0 He teaches in the areas of comparative politics, European integration, and state theory; he is currently researching whether\/how the Eurozone financial crisis has led to an increased politicization of EU affairs in the European population, meaning that citizens follow EU politics more attentively and participate more actively in EU-related political discourse, and comparing trends in the discursive politicization and legitimation of European integration to equivalent developments in North American regionalism.<\/p>\n

Jon PAMMETT<\/a> is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.\u00a0 He is one of Canada\u2019s premier specialists on elections, voter turnout, electronic voting, and survey research.\u00a0 He has \u00a0participated in the design of many Canadian national election surveys and has written on the impact of the economic crisis on the 2009 European Parliament elections, as well as on the nature of the electorate in previous European Parliament elections.\u00a0 His work has resulted in numerous books and articles, including Political Choice in Canada<\/em> and<\/em> Absent Mandate: Interpreting Change in Canadian Elections<\/em>; he is co-editor, with Chris Dornan, of The Canadian Federal Election <\/em>series, most recently The Canadian Federal Election of 2011<\/em> (Dundurn, Toronto).\u00a0 Pammett also has led Canada\u2019s participation in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) since 1998.<\/p>\n

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The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union, and in collaboration with the SSHRC-funded Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ottawa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[39],"event-audience":[],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe 2014 European Parliament Elections: A Step Forward for Democracy in the European Union? - Events - Centre for European Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Centre for European Studies and the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue invite you to a roundtable discussion of the 8th European Parliament Election\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/cu-events\/8th-european-parliament-elections-interpret-results\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/cu-events\/8th-european-parliament-elections-interpret-results\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/cu-events\/8th-european-parliament-elections-interpret-results\/\",\"name\":\"The 2014 European Parliament Elections: A Step Forward for Democracy in the European Union? 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