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We make one version of the programme for the BBC World Service,

but this is the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It's introduced by Kate Ade.

Hello. Today, grievances in Greece politics in Poland. People in 28 European countries prepare to vote, but do they have anything in common?

The tourists have all gone. After bombs in Kenya yesterday, British holidaymakers fly home, leaving behind them a deserted coastline.

We hear about the disaster in Central America which ended Scotland's last period of independence

300 years ago and visit a city even Parisians want to move

to. How has a grimy old port been transformed into a dynamic artistic powerhouse.

Millions of voters across Europe are preparing to vote on who they want in charge of the EU,

and what they wanted to do.

Should it be pushing on with the project of ever closer union or moving

in the opposite direction. British voters are somewhat lukewarm about the institution and even

more so about the process.

Only about a third of eligible voters usually turn up at the Euro ballot box, well below

the EU average turnout of about 43%.

But we're by no means the least interested. Only about a fifth of the Czechs,

Slovaks and polls cast their votes, perhaps surprising since they're the club's newest

members. The loudest arguments this time are the

existentialist ones. Is there really any point in having a European Union? As

Chris Morris explains, that's the theme which politicians all over Europe are tapping into.

I've met all sorts of people over these past few weeks.

There was the Red Army veteran who helped defeat the Nazis, paying his respects at a war memorial in Riga.

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