Only around 1 in 8 Slovakian voters made their voices heard during the last European Parliament election.
A nationwide campaign to encourage Slovaks to get out and vote visited 17 towns and cities across the country that's home to around 5.4 million people.“My aim is to double the turnout to around 25 percent,” said Ladislav Miko, the head of the representation of the European Commission in Slovakia."People laugh, they don’t believe it's possible."
This recent event promoting the European Parliament elections drew almost no one in Trnava, Slovakia.Later, at an indoor discussion about the elections and what the E.U. does for Slovakia, eight elderly people nodded as officials ticked off the benefits of the country’s membership in the bloc. “Put simply, politicians and political parties ever since we acceded to the European Union in 2004 have largely tended to ignore this election,” said Vladimír Bilčík, a candidate on the list of a coalition ofand the Together — Civic Democracy party.
The average gross annual earnings of full-time employees in industry and services in 2011 was 42,900 euros in Germany and 45,793 euros in the Netherlands, compared to 10,788 euros in Slovakia, according to theOthers pointed to alleged government corruption as a factor that weighs heavily on Slovakia’s national psyche.
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