Will political spruiking and a slew of celebrity — and eccentric – candidates revitalise the European Parliament?
Paola Totaro reports on the biggest transnational poll in history. HE IS the grandson of Italy’s last king, tall, handsome and the only true “blue blood” to try his luck on Dancing with the Stars. Tomorrow, however, when the European Union’s 27 member states go to the polls, Emanuele Filiberto Umberto Reza Ciro Rene’ Maria di Savoia will throw his crown into a different ring — as a Christian Democrat candidate for the European Parliament.
