The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament

325 Pages·2005·2.295 MB·English

by  Juliet Lodge (eds.)

The 2004 Elections to the European Parliament
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The 2004 Elections to the
European Parliament
Edited by Juliet Lodge
Director
Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
University of Leeds
UK
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The 2004 elections to the European Parliament / edited by Juliet Lodge.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. European Parliament––Elections, 2004. I. Lodge, Juliet.
JN36.A197 2005
324.94'0561––dc22
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For Europeans of the new European Union
and especially Keri-Michèle, David and Chris; Tom, Hannah and
Laura; Jade and Sophie.
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Contents
List of Tables and Figure ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Preface xvii
Part I Introduction
1 Euro-Elections 2004 – A Defi ning Point in European Integration? 3
Juliet Lodge
2 European Parliament 1999–2004 8
Richard Corbett
3 European Parliamentary Electoral Law and the 2004 Elections:
Towards Uniformity or Commonality? 18
James D. Mather
4 The EP Party System After the 2004 Elections 33
Tapio Raunio
5 EUphoria to Apathy: EP Turnout in the New Member States 45
Mark D. Baimbridge
Part II Country Case Studies
6 Austria 57
Josef Melchior
7 Belgium 65
Tom Delreux and Caroline Steensels
8 Cyprus 73
Costas Melakopides
9 Czech Republic 81
Lenka Rovná
10 Denmark 88
Karina Pedersen
11 Estonia 95
Terry Mayer
12 Finland 101
Tapio Raunio
13 France 109
Helen Drake
14 Germany 122
Simon Green
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15 Greece 131
Dimitris Kavakas
16 Hungary 138
Agnes Batory
17 Ireland 146
Edward Moxon-Browne
18 Italy 155
Donatella M. Viola
19 Latvia 165
David Galbreath
20 Lithuania 173
Terry Mayer
21 Luxembourg 179
Philippe Poirier
22 Malta 187
Mark Harwood
23 The Netherlands 194
Edith Drieskens
24 Poland 201
Aleks Szczerbiak
25 Portugal 210
José M. Magone
26 Slovakia 218
Lenka Rovná
27 Slovenia 223
Irena Brinar
28 Spain 230
Roberto Espíndola and Fabio García
29 Sweden 239
Fredrik Langdal
30 The United Kingdom 248
Richard Whitaker
Part III Conclusion
31 Communicating Europe: From Procedural Transparency
to Grand Forum 261
Juliet Lodge
32 The European Parliament 2004–09 – A Parliament for the
People of the New EU Polity? 279
Juliet Lodge
Index 293
List of Tables and Figure
Tables
3.1 Modes of European election by member state, 2004 23
3.2 The rights to vote and stand by member state, 2004 25
3.3 Average number of electors per MEP by member state, 2004 29
4.1 Party groups in the European Parliament, 1979–2004 34
5.1 Summary of political and socio-economic infl uences on turnout 47
5.2 Summary of EP election turnout, 1979–2004 48
5.3 Summary of statistics of turnout in EP elections, 1979–2004 48
5.4 NMS and the Eurogap 49
5.5 Predictions of NMS EP election turnout 51
6.1 Elections to the EP in Austria 63
7.1 EP election results, Belgium, 2004 70
8.1 EP election results, Cyprus, 2004 79
9.1 The EP election results in the Czech Republic 86
10.1 The Danish elections to the European Parliament, 2004 92
11.1 Estonia: results of the EP elections, 2004 99
11.2 The Riigikogu 2 March 2003 elections 99
12.1 Results of the 2004 European Parliament elections in Finland 106
12.2 The 14 Finnish MEPs elected to Parliament 106
13.1 The regional constituencies and the distribution of French
seats in the European Parliament, 2004–09 112
13.2 France: the results of the EP elections 117
14.1 Results of the German election to the European Parliament,
13 June 2004 128
15.1 The Greek results of the elections to the EP 133
16.1 The 13 June 2004 EP election results in Hungary 142
17.1 Ireland: European Parliament election results, 2004 151
18.1 Italian parties and lists 156
18.2 2004 Euro-election results in Italy 160
18.3 Italian MEPs’ affi liation to EP political groups and number of
women MEPS 161
19.1 2004 Latvian EP election results 168
20.1 Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas: 8 October 2000 174
20.2 EP election results, Lithuania 178
21.1 Luxembourg: the 2004 EP election results 180
22.1 Malta: 2004 EP election results 192
23.1 Results of the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands 198
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