At least one of the two top posts in post-Lisbon Europe looks set to go to a Brit. But what effect will this have on the pro-Europeanism in the UK? Does it still exist?

Fashionable words come and go, but unfashionable ones just go. In Britain the word ‘pro-European’ – always a pariah word in the UK press and rightwing circles – shrivelled up and died a death early in this decade, with no-one but the small Liberal Democrat party to nurture it.

By founding his political Eurosceptic group, Cameron has showed that he has no ally amongst the European governments and that the Eurosceptics are mainly coming from the radical right.

After their failure in getting a significant amount of people to vote for them in the European parliamentary Elections, French Eurosceptics and Europhobics are trying to annex those who abstained by telling that increasing abstention is a sign of support for Euroscepticism.

Giovanni di Lorenzo states that the values that made possible the European Union are today pathetic, that the passion is over, and that the economic gains are not enough to keep the union together.

Ricardo Martinez de Rituerto points out that a fifth of the MEPs of the new Parliament are “ultras” and their heterogeneity will make difficult to create a parliamentary group.

Henryk M. Broder defends a quite provocative view about the European Parliament, the political reality in Germany and the role of the media in last week’s elections..is it all not that bad after all?

According to Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, the European Parliament’s election results are not reinforcing the EU’s lack of democratic legitimacy at all. On the contrary, the European Parliament is “more colourful” and “crazier” than ever, but European democracy remains untouched, if not strengthened.

In France the parties that did well in the European elections campaigned on European issues. Does this mean that Europe will become more active transnationally? rien n’est moins sur.

Selected reviews for period leading up to the European elections

Spain will elect its 50 MEPs in today’s elections. This last week of election campaign has been as disappointing as the previous one. 15 days of election campaign where the almost complete absence of any serious debate about European issues has been predominant.