GERMANY/FRANCE: FRENCH AND GERMAN VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

Record ID: 328462

  • Title: GERMANY/FRANCE: FRENCH AND GERMAN VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
  • Date: 13th June 1999
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (JUNE 13, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF CAMPAIGN POSTERS IN BERLIN STREETS (5 SHOTS) 0.24 HANOVER, GERMANY (JUNE 13, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 2. MV GERHARD SCHROEDER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ARRIVING TO CAST HIS BALLOT 0.39 3. MV CAMERAS 0.45 4. SV SCHROEDER AND HIS WIFE CASTING BALLOTS 0.54 BERLIN, GERMANY (JUNE 13, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. TILT UP/ SLV EXTERIOR MENZEL SCHOOL, JOURNALISTS WAITING OUTSIDE (2 SHOTS) 1.01 6. TRACK/SCU ROMAN HERZOG, GERMAN PRESIDENT, ARRIVING TO CAST HIS BALLOT /CAMERA OPERATOR (2 SHOTS) 1.22 7. MV/SV HERZOG RECIEVING BALLOT (2 SHOTS) 1.39 8. SV PHOTOGRAPHERS 1.43 9. MV HERZOG IN BOOTH 1.48 10. SV HERZOG GREETING OFFICIAL 1.58 11. SCU CAMERA CREW 1.59 12. TRACK HERZOG CASTING VOTE / THANKING OFFICIALS/ LEAVING POLLING STATION (2 SHOTS) 2.17 13. SCU SOUNDBITE (German) ROMAN HERZOG: "If you look at what is being decided in Brussels and also in the European Parliament, which is getting increasingly important, it is important to me to take part in that process." 2.41 14. SLV JOURNALISTS 2.44 15. SLV HERZOG LEAVING 2.49 16. TILT UP EXTERIOR FRITZLAR-HOMBERG SCHOOL 2.55 17. MV VOTERS ARRIVING TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS 3.00 18. VARIOUS OF EARLY MORNING VOTING (7 SHOTS) 3.53 19. VARIOUS MORE OF VOTING (5 SHOTS) 4.43 PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 12, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 20. LV EXTERIOR POLLING STATION/ SV FRENCH FLAG (3 SHOTS) 4.59 21. WS INSIDE POLLING STATION/ VARIOUS OF PARTY PAPERS (2 SHOTS) 5.12 22. VARIOUS VOTERS COME IN TO CAST THEIR VOTES (5 SHOTS) 5.38 23. VARIOUS BALLOTS IN SEE-THROUGH BOX (3 SHOTS) 5.59 24. SCU SOUNDBITE (French) UNIDENTIFIED MONITOR SAYING: "I hope we (the French) will vote. I saw disastrous results (people not voting) in Denmark and in Britain and I hope France will be more civic. That would be good. I feel European because we have similar cultures. Wherever I go in Europe I feel at home. Also these days, decisions are made at the European level which concern me directly. It is important to act in Europe so that it does not act without us." 6.29 25. VARIOUS VOTERS (3 SHOTS) 6.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN AND HANOVER, GERMANY; PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAED6YXLUSE5SYJG1M85B19MCE5
  • Story Text: Voters in France and Germany have gone to the polls to
    elect a new European Parliament on the last day of a staggered
    election marked so far by record voter apathy.

    Germans on Sunday (June 13) joined voters across the
    European Union who took to the polls this week to elect a new
    parliament for Europe.

    They are voting after citizens in Britain, Denmark, the
    Netherlands and Ireland showed on Thursday and Friday how
    unmoved they were by the assembly's recent muscle-flexing in a
    graft scandal.

    Electors chose from thousands of candidates ranging from
    traditional Socialist and Christian Democrats to far-right
    nationalists and anti-EU campaigners.

    While the lists are heavy with celebrities like Italian
    actress Gina Lollobrigida, Miss Belgium 1991 who has promised
    to pose nude for Playboy magazine if elected, and a raft of
    athletes they are thinner than usual on heavyweight
    politicians, save for an ex-Portuguese president.

    German president Roman Herzog tried to raise the profile
    of the election by saying the European Parliament has
    increasing power and influence over the citizens of its member
    countries.

    The 626-member assembly had hoped its success in toppling
    the European Commission from power in March in a fraud scandal
    would win the hearts and minds of ordinary people.

    Not so in Britain where the Home Office (Interior
    Ministry) said after polls closed on Thursday, the turnout had
    hit a 23 per cent record low.

    One monitor in Paris said he hoped the French would be
    less apathetic.Europe is our home, he said, and people must
    have the power to influence the EU's decisions as they affect
    everyone living in Europe.

    Official vote counting in the poll only begins late on
    Sunday after the polls in the other 11 member states close.
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