NOVI TOKOVI U EVROPI POSLE IZBORA ZA EVROPSKI PARLAMENT 2019. GODINE
THE NEW COURSE IN THE EUROPE AFTER THE ELECTION FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2019

Summary/Abstract: The Treaty of Lisbon (2009) contains an article on the role of national parliaments and guidance on the work of the European Parliament with national parliaments in the legislative process, which also includes reciprocal consultation on ongoing activities. The highest turnout in the last 20 years (51%) and the results of the most recent European Parliament elections (2019) have shown that the European elections have become significant as national ones. Citizens demand that human rights and freedoms (migration issue) be respected, they want to exercise their right to participate in decision-making process in areas of public life that transcend national borders (ecology), and in the removal of the political elite (only a small number have voted in favor of the status quo). It is now up to the members of European Parliament who have been given a greater influence on the political direction of Europe by the Treaty of Lisbon, to put what citizens want in practice, first by electing the new leaders of the European institutions, then by exercising their legislative, financial and control powers and through debate on the future of the European Union with the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to show the main results of political, economic and institutional changes by anylising the election results and comparing them with the previous elections, i.e. to consider the answer to the question whether the EU will move towards federalization and the United States of Europe, advocated by French President Emmanuel Macron, and the extension of the competences of the European institutions in the areas belonging to nation states, or to national sovereignty, as advocated by the United Kingdom (this resulted brexit and the first exit of a member country from the European Union). The victory of the populists in Hungary, Poland and Italy and the Greens in Germany, Luxembourg and Finland will maintain a dispute between nation-states and the supranational character of the Union, whose solution will have both public (social) and scientific significance.

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