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Parliament election strategy highlights real issues and political choice
17/03/2009
Today in Brussels, the European Parliament officially kicked off its
public awareness campaign about the forthcoming European elections
(4th-7th June). In a break with the past, the information campaign will
be focused on issues and political choices rather than the purely
institutional dimension.
Graham Watson MEPGraham Watson, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and
Democrats commented:
"Parliament faces a major challenge to halt a downward trend in
participation. To be successful, this campaign will need to be widely
picked up on at national level and to reach out and communicate with a
broader public including those who may not normally show an interest in
politics.
"It is already an improvement on past campaigns that we are addressing
real issues of debate regarding the security at our borders, what
sources of energy we use to fuel our cars and what chemicals we allow to
enter our food-chain.
There will be no shortage of eurosceptics standing in these elections so
it is incumbent upon all like-minded pro-Europeans to speak out loudly
and consistently for a political vision of a united Europe - whether
that is a centrist, a right-wing or a left-wing one."
Silvana Koch-MehrinDr Silvana Koch-Mehrin MEP (FDP, Germany and ALDE
Vice-President) added:
"Confrontation and controversy are necessary ingredients for generating
debate. Citizens must realise that politics at European level also
requires a political choice. By underlining that choice we set the scene
for the party political campaigns later this Spring."
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
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