ers. The entire procedure should be completed before the previous Commission’s five-year term of office ends on October 31st; in 2019, however, it dragged on until late November. The resulting time constraints [...] before the election. However, preliminary talks among party leaders already failed in 2021 due to internal rivalries. Now that the war in Ukraine has driven a wedge between the more pro-Russian ID (with [...] still need to be worked out. Although the European Parliament recently reached a ground-breaking internal agreement on transnational lists, it is unlikely that its proposals on electoral reform will soon