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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9918

11 June 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/elections
With low turnout, calls grow for reform of European electoral system and pan-European lists - Concrete proposals from Jo Leinen and Graham Watson

Brussels, 10/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - After the 56.9% record rate of abstention averaged across the 27 member countries in last week's European elections (81.4% in Slovakia, 79.1% in Latvia, 75.5% in Poland, 72.6% in Romania, 71.8% in the Czech Republic, 65.8% in the United Kingdom, and so on), voices have been raised in concern at the public's lack of interest in European affairs and ideas have been put forward to remedy this worrying state of affairs for the future of Europe.

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