MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
27 May 2002
by Marco Cappato, Carlos Bautista Ojeda, Jens-Peter Bonde, Emma Bonino, Mario Borghezio, Alima Boumediene-Thiery, John Bowis, Hiltrud Breyer, Giuseppe Brienza, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Nicholas Clegg, Carlos Coelho, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Raffaele Costa, Benedetto Della Vedova, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Antonio Di Pietro, Olivier Dupuis, Raina A. Mercedes Echerer, Göran Färm, Carlo Fatuzzo, Enrico Ferri, Francesco Fiori, Jas Gawronski, Heidi Hautala, Ian Hudghton, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Alain Lipietz, Giorgio Lisi, Sarah Ludford, Jules Maaten, Mario Mantovani, Helmuth Markov, Mario Mauro, Domenico Mennitti, Reinhold Messner, Francesco Musotto, William Newton Dunn, Giuseppe Nisticò, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Elena Paciotti, Marco Pannella, Paolo Pastorelli, Béatrice Patrie, Roy Perry, Yves Pietrasanta, Giovanni Pittella, Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, Guido Podestà, Daniela Raschhofer, Heide Rühle, Ulla Sandbæk, Giacomo Santini, Luciana Sbarbati, Bart Staes, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Astrid Thors, Maurizio Turco, Lousewies van der Laan, Gianni Vattimo, Anders Wijkman and Eurig Wyn
on e-democracy and e-European citizenship
B5‑0115/2002
Motion for a European Parliament resolution on e-democracy and e-European citizenship
The European Parliament,
A. having regard to the articles of the Treaties on openness and transparency, and the provisions on the right of access to documents and the openness of the EU institutions' meetings,
B. whereas e-democracy, i.e. the application of digital technology (e.g. Internet) to the democratic process - can encourage European citizens to play their part and exercise their political and civil rights,
1. Affirms that European citizenship should imply a 'right of access' to all documents and all public meetings via the Internet;
2. Calls for the Treaties to be amended so that:
- -the proceedings of all public meetings of the EU institutions and their bodies are broadcast live (audio-video) and archived on the Internet;
- -every citizen can fully exercise his rights of European citizenship (e.g. as regards voting in European Parliament elections, submitting complaints to the European Ombudsman or the Court of Justice, or petitions to the European Parliament) through the Internet by means of identification systems which comply with Community law;
- -the EU institutions and the Member States are urged to promote electronic voting, and in particular voting arrangements using 'e-voting monitored polling stations' for the 2004 European elections.