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Byline: Christopher Werth
State power is rising as governments scramble to stop the global financial crisis, so why are Europeans so indifferent to who runs the European state? Just 34 percent of citizens plan to vote in European parliamentary elections this month, down from the previous record low of 45 percent in 2004. The weak turnout is expected to benefit fringe parties, with their passionate backers most likely to vote. That includes Britain's Greens and anticapitalist parties like Germany's Left Party and France's New Anti-Capitalists.
On the right, it includes parties thoroughly hostile to Europe. The British National Party is blitzing the U.K. with ads blaming economic conditions on immigrants from new EU member states like Poland. The U.K. Independence Party, a fierce advocate of Britain's withdrawal from the EU, is dominating online and ...