As someone who is in the process of immigrating to the EU (will be allowed to vote next cycle), can I get a layman's summary of the parties and what they stand for? Thanks!
I'd like to be able to vote for pan-european parties, but voting for Volt only works in very large constituencies (such as Germany).
In most other places it likely reduces the chance of getting pro-european MEPs who might consider implementing such an option.
What other strategies can help ?
Parties are at the national level, and form alliances/blocks at the international level in order to get things done. These blocks shift and there is no guarantee that one party will continue to vote with a particular block.
Pick a country. Generally, the political parties in that country will stand for local elections, national elections, and EU elections. At that point you can ask what their politics are. But EU wide parties aren't a thing.
Thanks for all the info, I guess what I was after was the bloc allegiances explained a bit more clearly (someone linked a video with a good explanation for this election cycle).
Just trying to get a layout of the way EU parliament works, we should be getting our passports sooner than later, and will be able to dive into it more before the next cycle.
Thanks!