Content
Forewords 11
Foreword by 13 Jordi Guixé
Foreword by 17 Luisa Trumellini and Stefano Castagnoli
The European elections in the perspective of the history of democracy 23
Martí Grau i Segú
The roots of the European elections 29
From the periphery to the centre of EU power 31 Richard Corbett Simone Veil and the first European universal suffrage 47
Nadine Vasseur Louise Weiss , a campaigner for Europe 57
Christine Manigand