Denis MacShane, a former Europe Minister in in Tony Blair’s premiership says “no dramatic breakthroughs” should be expected in the upcoming EU elections, which take place from 6 to 9th June.

The European Parliament will spend an estimated €33 million on a communications campaign that, it hopes, will boost voter turnout in the keenly-awaited election.

The aim, it says, is to continue the much improved participation rate seen in the last elections in 2019. It says the outlay is money well spent as it is the equivalent of less than ten cents per EU voter.

But MacShane, although an acknowledged Europhile, says no “dramatic breakthroughs” should be expected.

He points out that when the first direct elections to a European Parliament were held in 1979 62% of European citizens went to cast their votes.

He says that Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National came top in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

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