On the occasion of the elections to the European Parliament 2024, a group of Viadrina students travelled to Strasbourg to visit the constituting plenary sessions and deepen insights from the project class ‘Which Europe do we vote for? The elections to the European Parliament and the green future of the European Union’ by Amelie Kutter.
On the occasion of the elections to the European Parliament in 2024 and polarised positions on climate change, a group of students of the MA European Studies at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), studied European elections, campaigns, the European Green Deal and negotiations on EU climate and biodiversity legislation. They travelled to Strasbourg to watch the constituting sessions of the new European Parliament and work out how European parliamentary politics works on the ground.
Which Europe do we vote for? What is on offer for the voting population? This lunch lecture presents ad-hoc analysis of election campaign manifestos of German parties and their European party families that students of the class prepared.