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Lord Henry Plumb was the only British national ever to be elected President of the European Parliament, during almost 50 years of United Kingdom (UK) membership of the European Union. He passed away on 15 April 2022 aged 97 and the Parliament paid tribute to him at the opening of its plenary session on 2 May 2022, including holding a minute of silence. Speaking on that occasion, Parliament's President, Roberta Metsola, described him as a 'great European and a passionate believer in the power of politics ...

Digital innovation is radically transforming democratic decision-making. Public administrations are experimenting with mobile applications (apps) to provide citizens with real-time information, using online platforms to crowdsource ideas, and testing algorithms to engage communities in day-to-day administration. The key question is what technology breakthrough means for governance systems created long before digital disruption. On the one hand, policy-makers are hoping that technology can be used ...

EU citizenship grants the nationals of each Member State, who are in distress in a third country, the entitlement to consular assistance by any other Member State. This principle – enshrined in Article 20 of the EC Treaty and Article 46 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – not only acts as a concrete expression of Union citizenship but also serves to strengthen this same citizenship, by giving it an external dimension and making it more tangible in the eyes of individual citizens ...

This note was presented by the authors for a workshop organised by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs on 25/26 March 2008. The paper examines the question whether it is desirable that a considerable part of the population of the European Union remain third country nationals, excluded from participation in national and European elections. The author notes a restrictive trend in naturalisation procedures in several member states and questions their justification in view of increasing trans-border ...