Review of the 2024 European Parliament election

The EU Parliament voted on an own-initiative report * on the outcome of the 2024 European elections. Since there is currently no uniform EU electoral law, Parliament has been calling for reforms since 2022 that would create the same rules in all member states, for example a uniform minimum age for candidacy and a Europe-wide threshold of between 3.5 and 5 percent. The own-initiative report also calls on member states to ban foreign party donations, limit donations to parties and candidates and to transparently report all donations across the EU. The debate was supplemented by new initiatives to protect democracy, such as stricter rules against manipulation on the Internet or through artificial intelligence. *Although an own-initiative report does not have direct legal force, it does have political weight. Parliament is thus setting topics and increasing the pressure on the member states. Attention: The voting results shown on the right only reflect the voting behavior of the 96 German MEPs and not that of all 720 MEPs. The report was adopted overall with 388 yes votes to 186 no votes with 34 abstentions. Of the German MEPs, 61 voted for and 15 against. There were six abstentions.

Vote breakdown