Past policy has been rather busy week, but the main events seem to have become historical treatment of Barak Obama to the Muslim world, made in Cairo, and elections to the European Parliament, which determined the positions of political parties in European countries.

from the Middle East tour Barack Obama expected historic statements, and not in vain. Speaking at the American University of Cairo president not only declared the need to find new beginning in relations between the United States and Arab countries, but also made some statements that have been enthusiastically received in the Arab countries and ambiguously interpreted in America. Thus, Obama expressed support for the Palestinian Authority and condemned the continued Israeli expansion in the West Bank, insisting upon the inadmissibility of radical violent methods of struggle, which uses, in particular, Hamas. In Muslim countries it the American President was received cordially, but observers are not without reason offered to wait for the actual embodiment of good ideas vfyskazannyh American president.

central event of the week - the election of the European Parliament - for the markets, it is important not only in itself but as a barometer of public sentiment against the authorities. In this regard, the current election was all the more revealing.
In Germany the Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel's party, despite the crisis, has strengthened its position by taking the first line, and this despite the fact that the economy had declined by 7%. In France, the ruling National Movement party, Nicolas Sarkozy defeated Socialists and extreme right and extreme left parties failed elections.

Poland centrist Civic Platform easily went around the nearest competitors, as well as in Italy where he won the ruling Freedom Party, despite the scandals, which recently has been involved Silvio Berlusconi. In Spain, the ruling Socialists only slightly to transfer the right middle, while the unemployment rate in the country one of the highest in the EU.

Britain became the only country Big Six the EU (the six biggest EU countries), where the ruling party not only won, but not even close to the main competitors, gaining only 15% of the vote. This low level of confidence in the government observers for several reasons, in addition to the traditional British skepticism towards the European Union as a whole. First, because of the recent scandals involving members of Parliament from the Labor, the society has been able to find fault in all the troubles in the ruling elite. Secondly, the Labor Party, in power since 1997, has lost the confidence of voters, as party leader Gordon Brown has very low ratings of trust.

Overall, despite the growing influence of the European Parliament in the internal architecture of the EU, Europeans are losing interest in its work. Record low turnout (43%) to the certificate. The majority (more than a third, 263 MP) the new European Parliament is composed of deputies of the European People's Party-right-wing Socialists and the Democrats received 163 seats, independent MPs, not members of any of the coalitions that will take place 91, Liberal Democrats - 80 seats. The remaining 20% will deputies parties outside the coalition. Analysts cited the agency Bloomberg, believed that the victory of the right-center in a plan will facilitate the authorities' dilemma - to increase social spending and stimulate the economy - in favor of the latter.

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