Who will YOU vote for in 6 months? | EU elections 

FUN FACT ABOUT THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS : It may be the only election in the world where voting takes place on all continents. This is because all French overseas territories can vote in European elections, even those that are not part of the European Union. In North America there is Saint Pierre and Miquelon. In Central America there are the French Caribbean, in South America French Guiana, in Africa we have the Canary Islands, Malta, Mayotte and La Réunion; in Asia we have Cyprus and some Greek islands, In Oceania we have Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia and New Caledonia. The only doubt remains the French Antarctic territories, technically inhabited only by scientific personnel, if France allows them to vote in some way, then yes, the European elections would be the only ones in which voting takes place on ALL continents.

3:48 A group in the European Parliament must have at least 35 seats. According to this poll The Left would not come seventh, but instead would be forced to disintegrate

It's interesting to see, in Romania there are a lot more people willing to vote in EU elections than in local, parliamentary or even presidential elections. National politics are being replaced by much more impactful EU politics. Especially now on key issues as security , immigration and climate change.

A big problem is that we can't vote the parties in all Europe, every country has its parties... And may be you agree with a party without representation in your country... It's not fair

Whoever handles immigration/security problems will win.

Dear EU Made Simple, I appreciate your numerous informative and engaging videos. Currently, I have a keen interest in politics, particularly in my home country, the Netherlands, and geopolitics at large. I am wondering if you could create a video prior to the upcoming European elections next year, elucidating the specific objectives of the European political factions. While some key points are available, there seems to be a lack of clarity for many regarding the stances of these parties across the peoples of Europe. I would be particularly interested in a simplified explanatory video outlining their positions. Many thanks.

the year is slowly coming to an end, thank you for the videos you have produced this year, enjoy the christmas season ❤

Its funny how my first legal vote in society is going to be on the EU level rathr than the National one

My first time voting im excited

Is there a test/quiz where I can input my views and it’ll output my closest aligned EU political group?

I have a question, how did Ursula von der Leyen get voted.

Would be far more interesting to have a country per country dive into the predictions, seeing what dynamics are are set in each country's politics and how it affects the EU elections.

Thank you for an unbiased, neutral video regarding politics in EU. Not pro-right or pro-left. I hope more of those videos in this format will come. I wish you and your family a blessed day and happy christmas!

Work, medical, safety and security. Not forcing any country to accept what the country doesn't want.

nice thanks for the info

Great video, as always. Thank you!

Another aspect to note is that parties not always run separately and then add themselves to an EU group, sometimes several parties decide to make a national coalition for the EU elections and then align themselves with a specific group in order to gain more votes since the elections are made on a single nation-wide constituency. This is more common in the Renew Europe group, which works more like a coalition of coalitions, made up of groups such as ALDE, EDP or CEUS

What's interesting for me in such materials is that placing identities on political graph could be changed depending on country or even personal preferences. For example for me personally I would move all parties one step right, but looking at political consensus in my country all parties should probably be moved one step left. But nevertheless great video.

love your channel

Very kind phrasing of the EPP as pragmatic, they've taken some extreme stances this year including almost killing a biodiversity bill in the middle of a biodiversity crisis

Great video, as always. And talking about good content, I'd love to see you guys on Mastodon.

This is a concise and well-made little video. Thank you. The general trend right now, with the rise of Euroskeptic parties and Non-Inscrits indicates dissatisfaction with the EU, and by extension political establishments as a whole.

Well it will actually be my first time in going to vote. So i want it to be special

Another great video, a fantastic concise summary!

One small thing about the number of parlements, flanders has merged the two parlements (comunity and region) together

So EPP, S&D and RE will still have the majority. Not that much of a change

I doubt most voters know which block a party sits in in the EU parliament. Back when the UK was in the EU, people voted based on national politics or what our relationship with the EU should be, not EU policy.

I'd love a video of a going through for all the independent members of the council.

Voting for a Maltese independent alligned with the ECR. The independents on this election's list have quadrupled.

Wow those polls are incredibly depressing. Not surprising but depressing.

I’d rather vote on the Polish Platforma Obywatelska, than the Belgian Liberals that share the same EU fraction. You can demand that people from EU countries can vote on parties of other EU countries, but this would still make it an intangible mess. I don’t know anything of Baltic EPP members or Balkan EPP members. I don’t even know anything about EPP members of Roman language dominant countries. Still if I’d vote for one EPP member party, that still doesn’t change the fact they might still have opposing positions with their other EPP member parties. It’s a mess and further devolvement of power from member countries to the EU commission or Parliament won’t change any of that. Besides what would keep member states with large populations to gang up on the other members with smaller populations. Smaller countries will become even more satellites of their bigger neighbours and I don’t want to be a French satellite.

Well, this is depressing. I'd like to know more about voter demographics. I'm very interested in which income class / education level / country voted for what. edit: age group also

Can't wait to vote, this election along with local elections in Ireland will be my first elections to vote in

I will vote for a Federalist party. Long live Europe! 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

Which ones cares about trains the most?

sadly the UK is no longer a member of the EU 😢 but i vote for the Green Party 🇪🇺

Would you please make a video on what impact the automotive industry has on the overall EU GDP and how this will change wether or not the EU car makers adapt to uprising rivals regarding EVs? As a German I was always aware on what impact the car industry has on my own countries GDP and on its foreign political power. Seing there are also other countries like Slovenia and Slovakia who benefit from that (e.g. in form of imployment and as net beneficiararys from EU budgets) as well as other EU nations are somehow dependend on car manufacturing (like Italy, France, Sweden or Czechia) the EUs slow adaption to EVs and the uprising of EU-foreign car manufacturers like Tesla and espeacially China concerns me. I have already heard that China got a head start regarding battery power. They also got an advantage regarding manufacturing costs (Chinas car in ustry gets heavily subsidizesed). And well Tesla is a thing for its own. So how much is the EU really dependend on its car manufacturing e.g. regarding imployment rate, GDP and foreign political power? How much power could the EU lose with a declining car manufacturing sector in the world? How are EU car manufacturers coping with the foreign rivals in the short and in the long term? What are the possible scenarios, likelyhoods and outcomes? Maybe they are actually doing good? And could even power shift within the EU with some countries (e.g Germany) are more dependent than others?

ECR 💙

Things can change a lot in six months, but for now my vote is with the EPP.

In spain the eu elecctions could be a mayor political event, with in the country. The rigth wing is very mobilized right now, and they will probably try to portray the eu elections as a poll on just invested Pedro Sanchez. Sentiments will probably coll down for the elections but still they could be important.

plz pin this comment. IF YOU ARE AN EU CITIZEN YOU CAN VOTE EVEN IF YOU ARE LIVING ABROAD edit: many don't know that

can we vote online or? as a czech citizen living in the UK, i probs wont be in CZ to vote

Volt Europa 💜

Unfortunately, there is no anti-copyright party or free internet party (whenever The Pirate Party grows large enough it stops standing for these things).

I would give this video 10/10, the only flaw is reading "centre" instead of "center", this form makes my heart hurt.💔💔

@eumadesimple taperestry is not pronounced tape-estry, it’s pronounced täp-estry

>EPP: "focusing on national identity" lol, lmao even

It’s going to be either EPP or Renew Europe for me 🇪🇺💙💛

Why isn’t Greece on the list?

Frist! ... It's funny (sad really) why can't we have one party with all the good stuff... All of these have some negatives attached... :)

(Edit: TL;DR I'm arguing against a top down approach to running the EU, arguably a soft eurosceptic stance, despite believing in European cooperation) Hum, this is sad. I'm a green voter in my own country (not a EU member). As a environmentalist supernational solutions to problems comes natural as most of the issues I care about transcend national borders. Pollution and climate change impacts all of us regardless of the nation of origin of said pollution. Likewise the refugees from the climate changes are also global and so is humanity and human rights. That said, unlike my party I do not believe in a EU membership for my country at this time due to its overly federalized nature. I do not believe that decisions should be made far away from the people they affect. And that laws should for the most part be made as locally as possible but with as much cooperation as possible with ad many people as possible over as large a area as possible while *always* remaining a bottom up process where the final say is local. That's why I advocate for a confederate model for the EU instead of a federal or unitary approach. And I think that the attempts at a top down governance in the EU where people feel like their nations sovereignty and is being stepped on and like their local needs are being ignored is part of why we're seeing this shift to the right and towards nationalism. I don't believe that people actually want to end human rights or social justice. But they don't want to be stepped on by politicans that's far away either. People who live too far away to know how living locally actually feels like. People who often are from the more populated areas of Europe who have never talked to anyone local and wjo don't have any ideas about what challenges Europeans outside the the densely populated lowlands of Europe actually are facing. The EU should be a arena that facilitate cooperation and coordination rather then a body that outright makes decisions that people locally can't opt out of. Anything decided in Brussels should be opt-in for each local community and ideally loose enough that each local community can adapt it to local needs while still trying to achieve the spirit aimed for in Brussels. It's a difficult balancing act. Local politicians can't solve problems on their own, we *need* to cooperate EU wide to solve the problems of the Europe of tomorrow, but we can't achieve that by taking away peoples self determination at a local level. (And with local I don't just mean a national level but all the way down) With regards from Norway.

Not 100% sure, but probably Pirates

Nope they don't represent my vote because I did not agreed to the green agenda and uncontrolled immigration and other restrictions. Therefore I'm shifting my vote from EPP to ID and I am not the only one who will vote for a more Eurosceptic parties. People are fed up and tired of the fact that the EU elites are totally detached from the reality and that they dont look at statistical average EU worker.

ECR Group for safe borders and safety in our countrys! 🙏🏻💯

Noone, im too young to vote

My first time I vote for the European Parliament and I'm considering either the European People's Party or Renew Europe depending on what they want.

There's one thing I do not trust within the governments is left-wing to far-left, far left, right-wing to far right and far-right. Like who knows what they're gonna do in the future. I am not a liberal though but I'm beginning to develop into one. I'm not sure I can be a liberal, I like my personal freedom but not very sure.

This is about a whole Brexit. People don't know what's good until they vote against their own interests. Europe is stronger together. People need to realize we are all humans. Cultural differences are irrelevant when it comes to the passage of time.

Wasn't "The Left" also eurosceptic?

Mfw I'll be one month too young to vote next year

Voting for Renew Europe member Momentum from Hungary

Why the thumbnail with the person that you CAN'T vote for?

Unfortunately, I can no longer vote in an EU election 😣🙇

the most far left party that support Ukraine.

Can someone explain exactly how ecr and id differ?

scary how much the right/ far rights geht voted... We need to work together not against each other

As a UK citizen, nobody now! 😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😌😌😐😐😔😔😔😔😣😣😣😖😖😖😭😭

i believe ECR will gain more than ID.

Renew Europe!

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This election is the first one I will be able too vote in.

I support Aontu but don't agree with them on the EU, Fine Gael are in the EPP who I do like but can't stand Fine Gael. Agh what a headache.

Strange, I don't recall voting for Ursula...

NOBODY voted for van der Leyen!

I always did vote in the EU elections when the UK was in the EU. I can tell you that is was never for UKIP/Brexit Party and certainly never BNP. 😉

Why am I watching this? I'm American 😂

It’s awful that people are so skeptic of each other. Europeans should be brothers in the modern world, and the new champion for democracy and liberty.

The rise of nationalism worries me greatly. Every time it happened in Europe it did not end well. The EU is the most successful system we ever made to ensure peace in the continent. And the nationalists want to take that away from us.

Scary

"The world on the brink of another world war the U.S on the brink of leaving NATO" Let's vote for the party who wants a less centralized europe... It's almost like people are their own worst enemy or something... who knew?

Well, let's hope that your predictions come true!

Which group is for on shoring + digitalization + a well thought out economic policy + and the ones that want to get there hands dirty and try ? I prefer a way where we create things and share the technology with countries that don’t want todo the same env stuff like we did but we don’t destroy our economy and cause more Co2 emissions by going by policies that aren’t affordable for anyone.

In ten months, I am voting for anyone except Trump.

Im going to turn 18 in July so i wont be able to vote in june 😥

I'm french and very attached at my national identity. But in France, we are also very attached to the idea of a stronger Europe. But we have the feeling that the EU, is undemocratic and doesn't care of the member states will. In France, we have very big issues with immigration and the EU wan'ts to keep high the immigration level. And ou president is a puppet of the EU commission. But we love europe at the same time and that's why we have a schizophrenic feeling about Europe. If Europe could have more respect for the identites and national's will, it would be better.

Good summary, but its a shame you completely skipped the stance on migration when listing the parties.

heart of democracy in EU - good joke..

We all need a strong center , center right and center left wing

only a united europe will bring benefits for all, go renew europe!

Those flags were crying...

Australians are forced to vote against their own will or else face fines. What civilised country does that?

One can only hope the parliament shifts much more to the conservative side after these elections, so we dont have to endure even more of the nonsensical regulations, making our lives harder and the economy worse!

Interesting video but I would not agree with a statement that EPP is for "national identity". They are the ones promoting EU's federalization...

I will vote Ursa Major constalation stars.

This is quite disappointing as someone who aligns with Renew Europe...

Someone please tell me, because I dont understand. Why does the right want less EU. I am myself a right wing enjoyer, but dont understand this. If all the right wingers would be pro EU they would have much larger impact in the whole Europe. I dont mean capitalist, but right wing. You know what I mean😉.And Europe would be more strong together with their good policies.

Anyone who seriously is considering making an EU border patrol or border force with at least 10k people employed by the EU to guard the EU border. Stop spending money for anything else until we have a border patrol that can institute push backs and refuse asylum on the spot. Create that border force, give them money and tools, and I will be voting for them.

Nothing more than electing a talking shop.

if the center parties clamp down on immigration, i can see the right wing resurgence shrinking drastically

Yeah, but this is the EU Pariliament. EPP, S&D, RI, and Greens have a much easier time working together than various right-wing and far-left groups, together with unaffiliated members, who mostly represent their own countries’ interests.