Post by European Commission

The day democracy went European 🇪🇺    On 7–10 June 1979, nine nations went to the polls together for the first European elections in history. Not to choose a national government. Not to elect a national parliament. But to vote for Europe. A continent deciding, together, what it wanted to become. A triumph of post-war European integration.    That first vote started a project to make European democracy real — from the Single European Act to Maastricht, all the way to the Lisbon Treaty.    47 years on, that project is still very much alive. And we are proud of it.    Let’s protect democracy. Let’s #ProtectWhatMatters