I’ll be pausing the Finnish Politics Recaps for the summer, but it’s probably necessary to go through the most important political event of the recent weeks. The European Parliaments elections happened. The European Parliaments elect 720 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the member countries to represent the legislative assembly (one of the three main institutions) of the European Union. While the European Parliament is often castigated for weakness compared to the executive branches, the European Council and the European Commission, it still has a fair bit of power when it comes to, for instance, the various regulations of the European Union.