Elections will take place across the European Union from June 6th to 9th, 2024. The date, survey cut-off period and minimum age vary in the election to the EU Parliament.
In some EU countries, a blackout period regulates how long the results of surveys on election forecasts or voting behavior can be published before the election. The fact that the EU states do not vote uniformly is not a problem in national elections. But what about the joint European elections? How democratic is the election with different voting guidelines? In Italy and Greece, the media is banned from publishing polls 15 days before an election. In other EU countries such as France, Croatia and Lithuania the deadline is two days. In the last European elections in 2019, forecasts of the results were published on the evening of the election in the Netherlands. These were only forecasts, but the publication of such surveys is also prohibited in some EU states due to a so-called embargo period shortly before elections.Such forecasts are still not happy, explained the director of the Munich Center for Humanities and the Humanities Center, Ulrich Haltern.