However it is doubtful they are decisive

Here are thirty years for us European citizens, have acquired the right to appoint representatives to the European Parliament. Thirty years during which this Assembly is passed over the reforms of the simple instrument of consultation to the rank of true "co-legislator of right", in the words of its President, Hans Gert Pöttering. Yet the rise of the only Community institution elected by direct universal suffrage coincides with a constant decrease in the participation in the election. In 2004, with an abstention rate of 57.5, MEPs elected in France represented, if taking into account non-attached Members, barely a third of our fellow citizens!

The abstentionist trend further calls on the European Youth Parliament is systematically about 20 points lower than the national elections that precede the rate of participation in the European. The lack of interest is therefore specifically European. How to explain it

Bad faith of the national political actors that evoke the Europe to overwhelm it of all evil Myth of the opacity of the functioning of the European institutions Stupidity of the French political devices that use the European Parliament to install recalibrated and disgraciés All of these reasons cannot be entirely dismissed. However, it is doubtful they are decisive. History taught, the vote is above all a matter of empathy, both candidates than institutions. In democracies have electoral corruption, the mobilization of millions of people on common topics involves two conditions necessary and complementary: the possibility for citizens to identify the candidates in competition and the belief that the decisions taken by the institutions thus embodied have a real impact on society. In other words, those who move to designate their representatives are convinced that democratic institutions have a decisive influence on their daily lives and their future. However, if voters away massively from the ballot box, it is still difficult to perceive the growing power of the European Parliament.

But the essence is still not there. In truth, we lack a European democracy because we remain unable to emotionally feel the citizen community that we are Europe. This is essentially the lack of a common public space where we could share our visions of Europe is being built.

In proposing, since 1987, parliamentary sessions open to all young people, the European Youth Parliament provides, in its scale, a forum civil and civic, non-partisan and non-militant, where everyone can share in a European perspective, his views on the big issues of society. The objective is simple yet ambitious: out of the sterile debate between Eurosceptics and eurobéats to enter in the true European public debate (see ).

Because the issue of the European elections is considerable. Transport, energy, education, protection of consumers in a quarantine of policy areas, MEPs have the last word on all of the base text. At the National Assembly, the major part of the examined laws transposed texts previously debated and voted in the European Parliament.

In the field of the environment, they are 80 of the measures adopted in France arising directly from European standards! The political colour of the European Parliament is therefore not a detail, it determines the meaning of the decisions taken every day in Strasbourg and Brussels and influence significantly our destinies.

How long will we yet to abandon the field of a political area which produces the majority of the laws on which sits our law Say things as they are: independent opinions that each relates to the current functioning of the institutions of the Union, it is urgent that we adopt for the faster the political space is Europe starting by mobilize us for the June 7 elections. Otherwise, it is inevitable that the European Union remains forever this "unidentified political purpose", guided by the so-called apolitical of technicians and specialists questions only European to view.