In theory, the European Union's parliamentary elections are the most international in the world.
The winners serve in a multinational legislature. They speak to one another with the help of hundreds of translators. They are members of transnational parties: In the Parliament buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg, centre-left Members of the European Parliament(MEPs) from across Europe sit with the Party of European Socialists, centre-right MEPs caucus with the European People's Party, and so on.
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