European elections, 6-9 June 2024
European elections will take place from Thursday to Sunday, 6 - 9 June 2024.
If you are an EU citizen, you have the right to vote in these elections, together with around 360 million Europeans. And your vote matters.
Use your vote to decide what the European Union should focus on over the next five years. To help change the world you live in and to tackle the global challenges that surround us. To have a say on the future of European democracy.
Democracy is a precious gift passed on to us from previous generations. They aspired towards it and fought for it. We should never take democracy for granted. It is up to us to maintain it, to make it stronger and pass it on to the generations to come.
Because the more people vote, the stronger democracy becomes.
On 6-9 June 2024: Use your vote or others will decide for you.
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The EU has set up a new sanctions’ regime against those responsible for serious human rights violations and repression of democratic opposition in Russia. One entity and 19 persons are subject to an asset freeze under the new regime, which was prompted by the death of Alexei Navalny in February.
The Council of the EU has approved a raft of new measures to strengthen Europe's net-zero technology manufacturing industry. This is the last step in the decision-making process on the so-called 'net-zero industry act', which will boost the industrial use of green technologies in the EU.
To the delight of bathers around Europe, a new report rates the quality of 85.4% of bathing water sites in the EU as ‘excellent’, with only 1.5% rated as ‘poor’. The highest share of excellent bathing waters is found in Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Austria.