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Strengthening the democracy clause in EU agreements and instruments: Exploring election conditionality
This briefing considers where electoral conditionality could be included in European Union (EU) relations with third countries and offers three viable options, namely as part of: direct budget support; General Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+); and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument-Global Europe (NDICI-GE). In all three cases, not only would electoral conditionality incentivise partner countries to adhere to electoral recommendations, but also encourage them ...
Voting from abroad in European Parliament elections
National provisions regarding the right to vote of citizens living abroad are far from being uniform in Europe. However, developments in legislation seem to underline a favourable trend with regard to out-of-country voting in most European Union (EU) Member States. Concerning voting from abroad, countries need to carefully assess and address several issues. These include: the identification of potential voters; how to inform them about their right to vote and stand as a candidate from abroad; the ...
Strengthening the right to participate: legitimacy and resilience of electoral processes in illiberal political systems and authoritarian regimes
In 2022, the Human Rights Subcommittee decided to prepare a Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on how to respond to undemocratic elections by strengthening the human right to participate in public affairs. On 25 January 2023, a Workshop was organised on behalf of the Human Rights Subcommittee to discuss the challenge of elections in authoritarian countries from a human rights perspective. It focused on authoritarian ...
Derechos de sufragio en las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo por parte de los ciudadanos móviles de la Unión
Durante el período parcial de sesiones de febrero II, en el marco del procedimiento de consulta, está previsto que el Parlamento vote el informe sobre una propuesta de la Comisión relativa al derecho de los ciudadanos «móviles» de la Unión, es decir, los que residen y votan en un Estado miembro del que no son nacionales, a votar en las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo. En el marco de este procedimiento, el Consejo, que se espera que adopte la propuesta por unanimidad, no está vinculado por el dictamen ...
Revision of Council Directive 94/80/EC: Electoral rights of mobile Union citizens in municipal elections
On 25 November 2021, the European Commission put forward a proposal to modify Council Directive 94/80/EC on the right of mobile EU citizens to vote and stand as candidates in municipal elections. The proposal tied in with the Commission President's priority for a new push for European democracy. The proposal was presented together with three others: a proposal to modify Directive 93/109/EC on EU citizens' right to vote and stand as candidates in elections to the European Parliament; a proposal on ...
Tracking the EU Commissioners’ commitments - Von der Leyen Commission, 2019 - 2024: Věra Jourová
This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.
Simone Veil, European political pioneer
Simone Veil, the first President of the directly elected European Parliament in 1979, and the first woman to hold the office, died on 30 June 2017, at the age of 89. A prominent French public figure beyond her years in office, she leaves an important and enduring legacy. This is an update of an 'At a glance' note from July 2017.
Propuesta de nuevas normas para las elecciones europeas
Las normas aplicables a las elecciones europeas no son uniformes en toda la Unión. Los Estados miembros aplican normas electorales nacionales diferentes, aunque todos deben cumplir los principios comunes establecidos en el Acta Electoral Europea de 1976. Durante el período parcial de sesiones de mayo I, se espera que el Parlamento vote una iniciativa legislativa que propone derogar el Acta Electoral Europea con un nuevo Reglamento del Consejo que armonice en mayor medida las normas aplicables a las ...
Parlamento Europeo: datos y cifras
Esta nota informativa, publicada por el Servicio de Estudios del Parlamento Europeo, tiene por objeto presentar datos y cifras clave sobre el Parlamento Europeo, tanto de la legislatura actual (julio de 2019-junio de 2024), como de las ocho anteriores, desde que en junio de 1979 se introdujeran las elecciones directas. En las siguientes páginas encontrará gráficos de varios tipos que: • ilustran la composición del Parlamento Europeo en la actualidad y en el pasado; • plasman el aumento del número ...
Voting and candidacy rights of mobile EU citizens in European elections under Council Directive 93/109/EC
Under the arrangements set out in Council Directives 93/109/EC and 94/80/EC, EU nationals who live in a Member State other than their own are entitled to participate in European and municipal elections, respectively, in their country of residence. This concerns an estimated 11 million EU citizens of voting age (post-Brexit data). Even if Member States have successfully transposed both directives, voter turnout among mobile citizens remains low compared to nationals. Similarly, only a fraction of ...