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Europe needs more Europe - First reactions on the European Elections

The recent elections have marked the lowest turnout in the history of European Elections, with less than 45% of European citizens voting. Follow the live update of the result on http://www.elections2009-results.eu.

“These results,” underlines Tine Radinja, YFJ President, “should be an opportunity to reflect on what are the reasons that keep European citizens, and especially young people, so far away from European Institutions."

"Nonetheless, we should not fall in the temptation of analysing these data only in a negative way, like evidence of voters apathy, or the failure of Europe,” he stresses, “the responsibility of this result falls also in the hands of European and national parties that focused their campaigns very much on national issues rather than putting efforts in making it a truly European campaign”. Make it European! “Young people in Europe and European society in general need a more European debate addressing issues that concern all EU citizens and not 27 Member States particular interests,” concludes Tine Radinja, “and we really hope that this will be one of the priority for the newly elected MEPs in their future mandate. Europe needs more European issues on the agenda”.