This experimental study will comparatively analyze the impact of the European Election Debate among the candidates for the next President of the European Commission. The debate will be broadcasted by the European Broadcasting Union from Brussels on 16 May 2014. The project is led by Prof. Thorsten Faas (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) and Prof. Jürgen Maier (Universität Koblenz-Landau) and will involve 28 EU countries. PolCoRe is the partner for the project in the Czech Republic.