European elections: The French couldn't care less

The regional paper L'Est Répubicain casts about for reasons for the indifference of the French to the European elections: "The European elections never excited a huge passion in French hearts, but the vote that will take place on June 7 takes the biscuit. The French could not care less. Three weeks before the vote, surveys point to a 44 percent turnout. That is strange, because the European Parliament has a growing say in the affairs of the continent. ... Over and above purley French reasons, this indifference is also explained by the inherent weakness of the EU. With six countries the Union was still a dream, with 27 it has become an indefinable 'thing', whose workings appear increasingly obscure. And added to that there there's the whole technocratic side, which is far too caught up with the hunting of migratory birds, the composition of chocolate and the quality of rosé wines."

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