European Elections 2024: Results and Perspectives on the EU’s Future

Europe has voted. The results show that the conservative EPP and the far-right groups ECR and ID have emerged stronger from the election. The liberal Renew group and the Greens/EFA, on the other hand, have suffered heavy losses. While there is still a pro-democratic and pro-European majority in the European Parliament, it has shrunk in favour of far-right parties. In times, which are characterised by wars and conflicts, the rise of authoritarian regimes, climate change and a crisis-ridden economy, the result poses immense challenges for the EU.

Four weeks after the European Parliament elections, we therefore want to analyse the results together with European experts from politics, science and journalism, scrutinise the causes and consequences of trends in political behaviour and discuss how the new electoral majority structure will affect the future political direction of EU policy.

• How should the results be assessed and what are the causes of voting behaviour?
• What are the implications of the election results for the future of European democracy? 
• How can the EU overcome the current complex challenges while continuing to pursue a green and just transformation agenda? 
• What consequences do the results have for the role of the EU in the world, especially in the super election year of 2024?
   

With: ​​​​​​

• Tarik Abou-Chadi, Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative European Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
• Jan Philipp Albrecht, Co-President, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
• Annika Brockschmidt, Journalist and Author, Berlin
• Ricarda Lang, Chairperson, Alliance 90/The Greens, Berlin
• Anna Lührmann, Minister of State for Europe and Climate, German Federal Foreign Office

The event will be held in German with simultaneous translation into English.

Contact:
Claudia Rothe
Policy Advisor
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
E rothe@boell.de
T +49 (0)30 285 34 385

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