The quiet days of August are a good time to contemplate the year ahead. Peering at my 2024 calendar, the European Parliament elections loom largest. Sadly, they fail to inspire me the way they did five years ago. In 2019, I stood for the European Parliament in Germany while a German colleague stood in Greece. DiEM25, our pan-European movement, wanted to make the point that European democracy will remain a sham unless it becomes  fully transnational . In 2024, such  gestures  are not even symbolically meaningful.

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/european-integration/europes-fading-democracy-6967/

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