That take was never really true, and has certainly become less so since 2009, when the Lisbon treaty put the parliament on a more equal footing with national leaders in deciding what the EU does and how much it spends, plus more influence on who runs the bloc. This time, it looks likely to be less accurate than ever. On the upside, polling shows that more of the EU's roughly 400 million voters than ever before believe the bloc is important, are interested in the 2024 elections and intend to vote.
Georgina Wright, a senior fellow at the Paris-based Institut Montaigne thinktank, said voters were increasingly convinced by Covid and a string of geopolitical crises that there are some issues that clearly can't be resolved at a national level.
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