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Sue Arundale, Director General, EFCA.
Elections, elections, elections … Have you had enough yet? How many times have we heard this year that, across the world, there are more national and other elections in 2024 than ever before? Do these elections really matter? How do they impact the consulting engineering sector? The European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA) thinks that at least one vote really mattered this year, writes Sue Arundale, Director General, EFCA.

Across 27 countries between 6 and 9 June, voters went to the polls to decide who would represent them in the European Parliament. As expected, the electorate did not appear to pay attention to the actual work or purpose of the European Parliament, but rather used the election to kick national governments at a time of rising dismay about the cost-of-living crisis, immigration, energy shortages and national security.

“So what?”, you might be thinking. Here, EFCA will try to answer that question, turning attention to the possible impact of the outcome of the European elections on our sector. We give our first assessment on the power shift, which has put the group of liberals in fourth place, behind the populist and far-right leaning group, the European Conservatives and Reformists.

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