Europe, and Italy, are going to the polls. But which Europe, and which Italy, will go to the polls in June for the renewal of the European Parliament? The analysis of economic and social indicators referring to the 242 regions that make up the mosaic of the 27 member countries of the European Union allows us to go beyond what national averages hide. Therefore, it is valuable for deciphering the mood of European voters, the ghosts stirring in the collective imagination, the concerns, expectations and hopes of the 449 million European citizens and, in particular, the 359 million voters. What is photographed by the Censis institute is a continent that matters less: the gradual downsizing of the European Union's weight in the international context. Over the past few years, the European Union has experienced a progressive downsizing of its demographic and economic (and therefore political) weight on the international stage. While fifteen years ago (in 2007) the 27-state European Union was referable to a 17.7% share of the world's GDP, today the percentage has shrunk to 14.5%, mainly to the benefit of Asian countries. Censis also points out that there are 75 regions and provinces in European Union countries where there has been a negative change in net disposable income per capita over the past 15 years. A trend that has involved 151 million citizens (equal to 34% of the European population and corresponding to 121 million voters), who have suffered a decline in the family standard of living and who will (eventually) go to the polls with a burden on their shoulders: the perception of a betrayal of the promise of improvement of their conditions, having been subjected to processes of divergence instead of convergence, having experienced backwardness instead of progress. The territories of downgrading are found mainly in Greece, Italy and Spain, but also in France, Austria, Hungary, portions of Portugal, Belgium and Germany. The most worrying figures are in Attica in Greece (with a 35.6% reduction in per capita income compared to 2007), but also in some Italian regions: Lazio (-16.0%), Umbria (-14.7%), Autonomous Province of Trento (-14.6%), Tuscany (-14.6%). Thus, with the great crisis of 2008, the long cycle of European historical and social downgrading began, and there are many citizens who have been lost in the folds of the deindustrialization of so many territories. Of all the Europeans involved, 4 out of 10 are Italians (39.1%).