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Danuta Hübner, co-author of the EP report hopes to have the issue before the council already this year (Photo: epp group)

MEPs keen to harmonise EU election rules

The European Parliament is pushing for minimum standards, including an electoral threshold of between 3 and 5 percent in member states, for the 2019 EU elections.

MEPs in the constitutional affairs committee on Monday (28 September) backed a report that would “strengthen the European dimension” of the 2019 vote if member states agree in the EU Council.

The report calls for thresholds - a minimum of 3 percent and a maximum of 5 percent - for parties in member states to post deputi...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Danuta Hübner, co-author of the EP report hopes to have the issue before the council already this year (Photo: epp group)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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