The debate on the reform of the European electoral law that the European Parliament submitted to the Council of the EU revealed, on Tuesday 18 October, deep divisions between Member States on the question of setting up an electoral constituency within which transnational lists would compete (see EUROPE B12944A1).
Some Member States have “great difficulty” in accepting certain key elements of the legislative proposal, the Czech minister for European Affairs Mikuláš Bek noted after the...