Ideas on Europe

Simon Usherwood! I’m very pleased to welcome you back on Euradio. Your are professor at the Open University in Britain, and Chair of our partners UACES. 
Less than three months left until the elections to the European Parliament. What are your expectations? Do you think these elections actually matter?
Whether these elections matter is a great question and one that often gets asked.
45 years after the first direct elections, it is still a key problem for the European Parliament that most people don’t know much about what it actually does. Instead, their main reference point is national politics.

What is Ideas on Europe?

Every Monday, a member of the international academic association ‘UACES’ will address a current topic linked to their research.