45: Director's Cut: Reflections on the European elections

<div>An analysis of the results of the most recent European elections reveals what Bruegel director Guntram Wolff classifies as a generally positive trend in electoral participation across the EU, with an overall increase of 7% in voter turnout since the last elections in 2014. Additionally, populist parties in the European Parliament seem to have been prevented from gaining ground.<br> <br> However, election results in some EU member states were not as pro-EU at the national level. In this podcast, Guntram Wolff welcomes Ferdinando Giugliano from Bloomberg and Krzysztof Blusz from WiseEuropa to discuss the results in each guest's home countries - Italy and Poland, respectively - and how the nationalist trends in each state might play a role in politics in the new European Parliament and European Commission.<br> <br> If you are interested in Bruegel's work concerning the European elections, we recommend our blog post: ‘<a href="http://bruegel.org/2019/05/spitzenkandidaten-visions-for-the-future-of-europes-economy/">Spitzenkandidaten visions for the future of Europe’s economy</a>’, which features the candidates for the next president of the European Commission. You can also visit the main page for <a href="http://bruegel.org/europe2019/">our Spitzenkandidaten series</a>, to review the content in full.</div>