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Between 6 and 9 June 2024, the 10th European elections will take place in the 27 EU Member States, and around 366 million EU citizens will be called to the polling stations. The elections to the European Parliament represent a crucial moment in EU democracy: they give citizens a say in the EU's political direction. After declining ever since the first European elections in 1979, electoral turnout in the 2019 elections reached an unprecedented 50.6 % (up 8 percentage points compared with 2014). This ...

Gender-balanced representation among the decision-makers of the European Union is an important step towards full realisation of the principle of equality between women and men enshrined in the EU Treaties. The Union has made steady and significant progress, starting from a very low presence of women among EU Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament at the time when those institutions were created. The European Parliament is today one of the world's most gender-balanced representative ...

Lo studio, commissionato dal dipartimento tematico Diritti dei cittadini e affari costituzionali su richiesta della commissione AFCO, esamina la partecipazione dei giovani ai processi democratici, con particolare riferimento alle elezioni europee. Lo studio analizza il significato della partecipazione politica per le democrazie contemporanee e i dilemmi alla base della partecipazione e della rappresentanza dei giovani. Valuta inoltre, dal punto di vista dei giovani, le proposte legislative attualmente ...

At its second November plenary session, Parliament is expected to vote on an own-initiative report taking stock of the May 2019 European elections, the ninth direct elections to the European Parliament since the first ones in 1979, and of the subsequent appointment of the College of Commissioners. This report makes concrete proposals to strengthen the electoral process and enhance its European dimension.

The concept of participation lies at the heart of the European project, however recent years have seen a decrease in electoral turnout in contrast to the broader feelings of EU citizens of being part of a wider project promoting prosperity, social cohesion, unity and tolerance. Participation differs among different groups, and among the most explored is the gender gap in political participation, even though progress has been achieved over the years. Nowadays many European citizens show an increasing ...

The European Parliament has long sought to ensure that, by voting in European elections, European citizens not only elect the Parliament itself, but also have a say over who would head the EU executive – the European Commission. What became known as the 'Spitzenkandidaten process' is a procedure whereby European political parties, ahead of European elections, appoint lead candidates for the role of Commission President, with the presidency of the Commission then going to the candidate of the political ...

La presente nota informativa, pubblicata dal Servizio Ricerca del Parlamento europeo, è intesa a fornire fatti e cifre essenziali sull’Istituzione, sia in merito all’attuale legislatura 2014-2019, che sta ormai per concludersi, che alle sette precedenti legislature a cominciare dalle prime elezioni dirette del giugno 1979.

The forthcoming mid-term elections in the United States, to be held on 6 November 2018, are likely to offer a closely watched political verdict on the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency. They will define not only the composition of the 116th US Congress, to meet from 3 January 2019 to 3 January 2021, but also the power balance both within Congress and between Congress and the President. In US mid-term elections, the entire House of Representatives and one third of the Senate are up for ...

Il presente briefing, pubblicato dal Servizio di ricerca del Parlamento europeo, intende fornire fatti e cifre essenziali sia sul Parlamento europeo di oggi – durante la legislatura 2014-2019 in corso – che sulle sette precedenti legislature dopo le elezioni dirette introdotte nel giugno 1979. Nelle pagine seguenti si trovano grafici di vario tipo che: • illustrano in dettaglio la composizione del Parlamento europeo attuale e nel passato; • seguono l’aumento del numero dei partiti rappresentati in ...

On 18 March 2018, Russians will elect the president who will govern their country for the next six years. Incumbent, Vladimir Putin is firmly on track to win, with approval ratings that have stayed above 80 % since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. Russians see him as a strong president, who has brought order to the country and restored its great power status. They are worried about the economy, poverty and corruption, but these problems, though partly blamed on Putin, have barely dented ...