According to the principle that everything that is theoretically possible, it may also occur virtually, you cannot exclude even this: that the British on 23. May your 73 members of the European Parliament. You don’t need to do it grudgingly, because they do it with the Brexit.

it Would be, there would be considerable rumbling in the European transmission, because the departure of the islanders increased from proportional reasons, for 14 of the 27 remaining Nations, the number of seats, although the overall number of mandate holders will be reduced from 750 to 705. This key should be turned back.

more Likely a different scenario, however: The largest democratic Parliament in the world, as the German Chancellor in a speech in Strasbourg in your Auditorium? once said, in the future do not belong to any representative of the oldest democracy in the world. This is how to get a rating of the Brexit, a bitter loss.

Nevertheless, The 705 men and women from 27 Nations, the at the 2. July for the first Time will gather, will be the political voice of 450 million people. This is not the whole of democratic Europe, as critics argue. Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, for example, are not of my own free will, members of the Union. But a Moment of reflection on the often bloody history of our continent in the last 100 years, these facts are not worth it, even if it targets Europe’s only about the Lessons of the past is allowed to define.

has gained the Power of the European Parliament in the 40 years since the first direct elections, one can experience again and again. Long ago those the first policy generation, its mostly older representatives wished to be such as would were carrier, and so courted is forgotten.

Perhaps the British in five years, are at it again

the Reputation of The Parliament’s culture have increased in their debate, rather, up funny politicians such as Martin Schulz, whose controversy with Silvio Berlusconi at the 2. July 2003, has become something of a landmark parliamentary Self-consciousness. This Parliament interpreted its competences rather expansive. The will show up again in the election of the President of the European Commission. To demonstrate this occasion, the heads of state and heads of government your right to make a proposal, as the Parliament had to follow. The do not need it.

no, this house holds together the EU – awake, self-aware and conflict. Topics such as copyright, the summer time, Migration, energy security and relations with Russia were just in Strasbourg, on the agenda. The struggle for democratic Standards, the EU has the European people’s parties because of questionable decisions in Poland and Hungary, in the government’s responsibility to the members.

The elections at the end of may, are likely to weaken the Conservatives and social Democrats, and, perverse reality, Europe hostile parties strengths. The Parliament reflects the sensitivities of the people in the 27 Nations from which its members come.

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The British are to watch only. They were extremely dedicated, passionate Euro-parliamentarians. And who knows: Maybe you are in five years, Yes.