European elections - EP2019 / Ep2019

Level of participation in European elections, eternal question that comes up again and again, vote after vote

Florence, 02/05/2019 (Europe Agency)

Will voters in 2019 be more interested in the European elections than they have been so far? And will they be more likely to vote, whereas the participation rate in 2014 was 42.61%, slightly lower than in 2009 (42.97%) and continuously lower since 1979? 

A recent Eurobarometer survey conducted for the European Parliament and published on Thursday 25 April (see EUROPE B12242A13) calls for caution. According to this survey conducted at the end of February, one in three Europeans knew that the...