What kind of ‘influence’ are we talking about here? Romania has been in a state of anarchy for 4 years now.
This feels pretty accurate.
The title should be “Political influence in the EU parliament”, as it looks only at the influence of MEPs. The EU is vastly more than the EU parliament.
We beat Sweden
It would be better to calculate the index based on the Council, this is miselading, it should say “in Europan Parliament”.
Surprised about Spain&Portugal. Really?
Why is Spain in second place? I would have expected France in second place and Spain outside the top 3 but inside the top 10.
This is one of those cases where you get your result, you check it and you can immediately go back and change either your methodology or the title of your map because something is obviously wrong.
That made my day hahaha 🙏
It’s not the influence in EU, it’s the influence in the European Parliament (EP).
This influence depends on several factors, but the biggest factor seems to be the belonging of the main parties to one of the big European party groups.
Romania scores high on this list because the main three parties are part of the biggest three groups in the EP – EPP, S&D and RE which can yield a bigger influence in the decision process in the EP, especially if some MEPs are in top position in this groups – currently there is a Romanian MEP vice-president in both EPP and S&D and until recently a Romanian MEP was the president of Renew Europe. It also helps that it has a relative big number of MEPs.
France and Italy score bad despite their big number of MEPs because some of their main parties are not part of these big political groups and so their influence is limited in the EP. France’s no.1 party in the EP – RN lead by Marine LePen is part of the smaller ID group. In Italy party no.1 Lega is part of ID group and party no.3 Five Stars is non-affiliated.
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I wonder how on Earth France is so low.
It still stings not seeing the UK on these types of presentations of data.
How do you calculate something like that?!
What kind of criteria this index uses?
That’s got to be made up by someone from the UK. lol.
Romania third, France last. Malta before Denmark. Slovenia before Italy. Seems legit.
This is the source for political influence: https://www.votewatch.eu/blog/influence-index-2021-top-100-most-politically-influential-meps/
If France is the last one, something is wrong.
Press X for serious doubt
Is this the Eurovision results? Oh wait
What kind of ‘influence’ are we talking about here? Romania has been in a state of anarchy for 4 years now.
This feels pretty accurate.
The title should be “Political influence in the EU parliament”, as it looks only at the influence of MEPs. The EU is vastly more than the EU parliament.
We beat Sweden
It would be better to calculate the index based on the Council, this is miselading, it should say “in Europan Parliament”.
Surprised about Spain&Portugal. Really?
Why is Spain in second place? I would have expected France in second place and Spain outside the top 3 but inside the top 10.
This is one of those cases where you get your result, you check it and you can immediately go back and change either your methodology or the title of your map because something is obviously wrong.
That made my day hahaha 🙏
It’s not the influence in EU, it’s the influence in the European Parliament (EP).
This influence depends on several factors, but the biggest factor seems to be the belonging of the main parties to one of the big European party groups.
Romania scores high on this list because the main three parties are part of the biggest three groups in the EP – EPP, S&D and RE which can yield a bigger influence in the decision process in the EP, especially if some MEPs are in top position in this groups – currently there is a Romanian MEP vice-president in both EPP and S&D and until recently a Romanian MEP was the president of Renew Europe. It also helps that it has a relative big number of MEPs.
France and Italy score bad despite their big number of MEPs because some of their main parties are not part of these big political groups and so their influence is limited in the EP. France’s no.1 party in the EP – RN lead by Marine LePen is part of the smaller ID group. In Italy party no.1 Lega is part of ID group and party no.3 Five Stars is non-affiliated.