Europe’s move to transnational politics

Kemal Dervis asks if transnational European space, however young, has grown to the point that it can no longer be ignored.

EUROPEAN citizens will head to the polls on Friday, May 23, to select the 751 members of the European Parliament to represent 507m people.

The way the election campaign has unfolded marks a small but significant step in the emergence of the first transnational political space in European — indeed, world — history.