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Philippe Cayla and Catherine Colonna on the Europeans' right to vote
EU citizens living in EU countries other than their own are only entitled to vote in local and EU elections. This must change, write Philippe Cayla, president of Europeans Without Borders, and former European minister Catherine Colonna in the left-liberal daily Le Monde: "Europe has grown together. ... We share the same history, the same democratic and humanitarian values and - it's time that we grasped this - the same fate. Nevertheless there are still too many obstacles to a full meeting of the peoples. One of the many obstacles is particularly political: while a European living in a European country other than his own takes part in the economic, social and cultural life there - and pays taxes there - he is still only eligible to vote in local and European elections. He is not a citizen like any other. We must give all Europeans full voting rights, without delay. Every European citizen must be entitled to go to the polls in every election, regardless of which European country he lives in, and without having to relinquish his citizenship - or his origins."
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Europe is overlooked by national news coverage
"Brussels is a ghetto, assailed from all sides by nations, by national political classes and above all by national media", explains Philippe Cayla, CEO of the television channel Euronews. "National media don't want anything to do with Europe. Europe poses a threat their intellectual comfort and their status. It bothers the way they consider their daily task which, according to them, is to confirm each country's impression that they are the greatest, the most beautiful, the strongest, the most amiable. ... How can the EU's leaders be given a media aura by Europe's different communities if they remain invisible and unheard? Such an aura, whether we like it or not, is indispensable not only for public recognition, but also for European citizens to be able to identify to their leaders."
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