Europeans don't like voting

The daily Dnevnik attributes the poor performance of the left-wing parties in the European elections to the low voter turnout: "Their defeat is not just obvious and catastrophic, it is also understandable. In times when the left parties should in fact be making themselves useful they are the political group with the fewest ideas within the Union. We should examine to what extent the Left contributed to the low voter turnout. In Eastern Europe and here in Slovenia citizens don't vote because for us the whole 'business of Europe' ceased to be relevant once we became EU members. Be that as it may, voters across Europe performed the largely make-believe democratic task of putting together the new Brussels Babylon, where much is translated but little understood, more under duress than anything else. The Brussels Babylon may … not have caused any damage worth mentioning so far, and is unlikely to do so in the next five years. But in the meantime we should consider whether this kind of European opinion poll … won't end up being the Union's undoing."

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