Sources tell POLITICO that U.S. senators have begged Brussels to shift the dates of European commissioners’ hearings, amid panic over the prospect of low turnout on Nov. 5, when millions of Americans will be stuck on the fence on the European Parliament website.

And when it comes to Brussels’ interest in the US elections, forget it. In the capital of the European Union, Harris is the Irish taoiseach, Donald is the prime minister of Poland, the Republicans are the French conservatives and Georgia is a swing state – in the Caucasus.

On November 5, the date that has become globally synonymous with the highly anticipated hearing of Bulgarian Commissioner-designate Ekaterina Spasova Gecheva-Zaharieva, there is a real risk that what happens in Brussels will tip the scales in the United States. Some are already calling it election interference.

At next week’s blockbuster day, members of the European Parliament will ask questions of six commissioners – covering topics regularly discussed by your average citizen in America, like the “competitive circular economy” and water resilience . There is every chance that the commissioners’ policy commitments, no matter how evasive, will trickle down to key U.S. states and impact outcomes.

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Seen from Brussels, one can pretty much understand why what’s happening in the United States might attract some attention: you have two very different candidates, one of whom survived a bullet, facing off in an election that defines a generation and which puts the future of democracy itself at stake.