The British and the Dutch are the first to vote in the EU election. Is The well-established puppet masters get strong competition from the populist edge.

restart or creeping resolution? For the crisis-tested, and in many ways deeply divided EU, a lot is at stake. Even if some people like to keep the last arg-abused concept of the “destiny of choice” is exaggerated.

Also Janis Emmanouilidis of the Brussels think tank EPC warns against too much Drama in the discussion: An important decision on the direction of the vote of more than 400 million EU citizens from all, however, have also been considered five years ago: “It is now also important, because it’s about how it goes with the European cooperation.” According to Emmanouilidis, there are more and more “anti-forces” in the EU: Anti-EU, Anti-Euro, Anti-Migration, Anti-liberal – and increasingly other ideas of how to go with the EU.