When the dates for the next EU elections – 6 to 9 June 2024 – were officially announced a fortnight ago, the pulses of MEPs from around the continent quickened.
‘Anything that isn’t almost finalised this year probably won’t be done at all’ Legislation moves slowly in the European Union. Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher said that “people’s minds are beginning to wander back towards their constituencies – you can just sense that a little bit”. Proposed legislation that remains in the early stages include a revised animal welfare law; a strategy to eradicate human trafficking; a directive to reduce false claims about environmental sustainability or ‘greenwashing’; and a framework for improving access between EU and third-party countries to information for countering shared security threats.
She cited the proposed Nature Restoration Law and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive as examples of legislation that “we have to make sure that we get that through in this mandate”. Nonetheless, it’s been anticipated for a while now that changes in population levels across member states will mean that Ireland will gain another seat in the parliament in the next election.
The Electoral Commission invited public submissions to the Constituency Review and received responses from members of the public, political parties and elected officials, including two MEPs: Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews and Fine Gael’s Seán Kelly. Speaking in Brussels, Andrews said there is “no logic” to the existing Midlands-North-West constituency.
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