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Welcome to Catch-the-Eye Politics, where we explain how European politics really works.
In this video, we meet political newbie Lukas Sieper who unexpectedly won a seat in the European Parliament this summer. How did he pull it off? And what can the political establishment learn from the growing success of micro parties and independent candidates from the center? Watch to find out!

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Sources:
BVerfG, 2011: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht....
Council of the EU, 2018: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/...
EU Made Simple, 2024a:    • The EU Election Results Explained  
EU Made Simple, 2024b:    • The 2024 European Parliament EXPLAINED  
European Parliament, 2024a: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegDat...
Fidias, 2024:    • How I Won the European Election  
The Parliament Magazine, 2019: https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/...
Pew Research Center, 2024: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/20...
Pildes, 2023: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/jp...
World Economic Forum, 2024: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/0...
Zaretsky, 2017: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/24/...

Further reading:
“​​Mainstream parties need radical centrism — not populist mimicry” by Sachs, 2024 via Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/mains...
“The electoral threshold will not save the European Parliament's ability to act” by Quaritsch, 2024 via Jacques Delors Centre, 2024: https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/public...

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​​Music by National Sweetheart, Quinca Moreira, Craig MacArthur, Godmode, The Soundlings, geoffharvey, and The Whole Other.

Photo of Lukas Sieper in the intro: © Sarah Brasack, 2024

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00:00 Intro: 2024 European elections
01:38 Meet Lukas Sieper MEP
03:11 Meet Fidias Panayiotou MEP
03:47 Unideological politics
04:41 Political fragmentation
06:38 Electoral thresholds
07:24 Easy peasy EU elections
08:58 EU Electoral Act rains on the parade
09:42 Benefits of fragmentation
11:19 Political groups in the European Parliament
12:37 The European party system is shifting
13:24 Why are establishment parties losing ground?
15:21 A different kind of politics
17:26 The downsides of political pragmatism
17:54 Conclusion: No democracy without active democrats
19:10 Outro