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Voting from abroad in European Parliament elections
Across the European Union (EU), national provisions regarding the right to vote for citizens living abroad are not consistent. However, recent legislative changes seem to suggest a positive trend towards allowing out-of-country voting in most EU Member States. When it comes to voting from abroad, countries need to carefully assess and address various 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 ...
Armonizzazione dei reati e delle sanzioni per la violazione delle misure restrittive dell'UE
Nel dicembre 2022 la Commissione europea ha presentato una proposta di direttiva relativa all'armonizzazione dei reati e delle sanzioni per la violazione delle misure restrittive dell'UE. Durante la tornata di marzo è previsto il voto del Parlamento sull'accordo politico raggiunto durante i negoziati con il Consiglio.
Tutela penale dell'ambiente
La criminalità ambientale è una grave attività criminale organizzata nell'Unione europea. Per affrontare il problema in modo più efficace, nel 2021 la Commissione europea ha proposto una revisione della direttiva 2008/99/CE sulla tutela penale dell'ambiente. Il Parlamento dovrebbe votare l'accordo politico raggiunto con il Consiglio sulla proposta di direttiva durante la tornata di febbraio II.
Revision of Directive 2008/99/EC: Protection of the environment through criminal law
In December 2021, the European Commission proposed a revision of Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law. The proposal seeks to clarify some of the terms contained in the directive and includes an updated list of environmental crime offences, harmonised sanction types and levels, measures to strengthen international investigation and prosecution, improvements to the collection of statistical data, and measures to improve national enforcement chains. Ultimately ...
Proposal for a directive on the violation of Union restrictive measures
The European Union (EU) has established over 40 regimes of sanctions against third countries, entities, and legal and natural persons. These restrictive measures include arms embargoes, import and export bans, freezing of funds and economic resources, and travel bans. Whereas the adoption of EU sanctions is centralised at EU level, their implementation and enforcement lies with the Member States. The significant differences between national systems, particularly in terms of offences and penalties ...
EU-UK relations: Mobility of individuals
The end of free movement between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), following Brexit, has brought about a decline in long-term migration, but also in short-term mobility for certain categories of EU and UK citizens. Young people seem to be particularly affected.
Revision of the EU rules on asset recovery and confiscation
The confiscation of criminals' illicit profits is considered an effective tool in the fight against organised crime, identified as a major threat to EU security. However, despite the comprehensive set of EU rules on asset freezing and confiscation, there are still obstacles on the path to recovering criminal assets, as shown by the European Commission's June 2020 evaluation of the 2014 directive on freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime and the 2007 Council decision ...
Regional and local participation in the EU project: How the European Parliament is responding to citizens' expectations
The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) has now concluded its work. Originally conceived in May 2019 from an idea France's President Emmanuel Macron put forward in his 'letter to the citizens of Europe', the CoFoE was intended to 'propose all the changes our political project needs, with an open mind, even to amending the Treaties', particularly on the basis of citizens' proposals. Citizens 'should play a leading and active part in setting our priorities and our level of ambition', as stated ...
Strengthening Europol's mandate
On 9 December 2020, along with its counter-terrorism agenda, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation to reinforce the mandate of Europol, the EU law enforcement cooperation agency. The proposed regulation aims principally at rendering Europol's cooperation with private parties more effective; responding to the agency's 'big data challenge', by providing a legal basis for processing large and complex datasets, including personal data of data subjects not related to a crime; and ...
Rafforzamento del mandato di Europol
Nel dicembre 2020, la Commissione ha proposto di modificare il regolamento Europol per migliorare la cooperazione dell'agenzia con le parti private, rafforzare il suo ruolo in materia di ricerca e nell'innovazione per le attività di contrasto e ovviare alle lacune giuridiche nel trattamento dei dati personali. Durante la tornata di maggio I, il Parlamento dovrebbe procedere alla votazione sull'accordo provvisorio risultante dai negoziati interistituzionali.