Between Apathy and Anger: Challenges to the Union from the 2014 Elections to the European Parliament. EPIN [Working] Paper No. 39, 20 May 2014

This EPIN study brings together contributions from a ​broad selection of member states ​and ​provid​es ​insightful analysis ​into the 2014 elections to the European Parliament on the ground. The report reveals the different factors that impede the development of genuine European elections and the consequences of the ballot in the member states covered by the study​, namely Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the UK​,​ and at EU level. The report finds that: • The EP Resolution to encourage European parties to nominate candidates for the next Commission President has not really increased public interest in the EU and voter turnout will probably remain low. • Visibility of the European top candidates in most member states has been quite limited. • National manifestos do not coincide – and sometimes event conflict with – the European parties’ manifestos. • Election debates focus on national issues; EU issues are only brought to public debate when they are relevant for domestic politics. • Again, we will see a protest vote against governments and large parties. The EP elections are still perceived as a test ahead of local and national elections, or as a vote of confidence in national governments. • This year the protest vote also concerns the EU. The report predicts a more eurosceptic ballot that might complicate decision-making in the EU, exacerbate the conflict between the national and European levels and increase tensions among member states.

Essays in miniature /

Our friends, the books.--Trials of a publisher.--The oppression of notes.--Conversation in novels.--A short defence of villains.--A by-way in fiction.--Comedy of the custom house.--Mr. Wilde's intentions.--Humors of gastronomy.--Children in fiction.--Three famous old maids.--The charm of the familiar.--Old World pets.--Battle of the babies.--The novel of incident.

The agriculture and trade of the West Indies.

"Selected list of references": p. 35.

University Boat. Scene on the Huron River

On verso: Ladies's Crew: Miss Banker, '78 - Carrie Julia '82?; Miss Bennison, '78, stroke - Cora Agnes; Miss Chandler, '78 - Eva; Miss Blood, '79 - Maria Lavina; Miss Colby, '79 - June Rose, '78; Miss Barry, '79 - Nunnie '78; On mat: Photographed by J.A. Jenney.

Isabella Head : recollections of her life and work /

Mode of access: Internet.

Chinese painting as reflected in the thought and art of Li Lung-mien, 1070-1106,

"The catalogue of Li Lung-mien's paintings and the bibliography have been omitted from this edition."

Invitation to Boston : a merry guide to her past, present, and future /

"A Village Green Press book."

A rose and a dream /

Mode of access: Internet.

The battle-field of life.

Mode of access: Internet.

Arden. A novel.

Mode of access: Internet.

Smithsonian scientific series.

"A promise kept" (4p.) 23 cm. loose in vol. 1.

Legends of saints and birds /

Includes bibliography.

Russell H. Conwell, founder of the Institutional Church in America;

On cover: Russell H. Conwell: The man and the work.

Novels of the sisters Bronte /

v. 1-2. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë.--v. 3-4. Villette, by Charlotte Brontë.--v. 5. The professor, by Charlotte Brontë.--v. 6. Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë. With a memoir of her sisters by Charlotte Brontë.--v. 7. Wuthering heights, by Emily Brontë.--v. 8-9. Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë.--v. 10-11. The tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë.--v. 12. The life of Charlotte Brontë, by E.C. Gaskell. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B.W. Willett.