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This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, analyses the impact of digitalization on vulnerable social groups in terms of lower income and education, age, people affected by disabilities, minority ethnic groups and people living in remote/isolated geographic areas. It includes a review of the relevant academic literature, secondary data analysis, as well as three case studies focused ...

Inițiativa cetățenească europeană (ICE) este un instrument important al democrației participative în UE. Prin intermediul său, cetățenii, dacă strâng un milion de semnături de la oameni din cel puțin un sfert din statele membre, pot să invite Comisia să propună un act juridic conform cu Tratatele UE. Din 2011, de când se aplică un regulament care stabilește proceduri detaliate pentru ICE, zece astfel de inițiative au ajuns cu succes pe masa Comisiei. Începând din ianuarie 2020, se aplică noi norme ...

De la intrarea în vigoare a Tratatului de la Maastricht, orice cetățean al UE și toți rezidenții fizici sau juridici ai statelor membre au dreptul de a adresa petiții Parlamentului European, sub forma unei plângeri sau a unei cereri, privind chestiuni ce țin de unul dintre domeniile de activitate ale Uniunii Europene. Petițiile sunt examinate de către Comisia pentru petiții a Parlamentului European, care decide cu privire la admisibilitatea acestora și este însărcinată să se ocupe de ele.

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, assesses the status of political strikes in the EU. While workers' strikes generally seek to pressure an employer, "political strikes" are aimed at the government. Even though such political strikes are often organised to defend and protect workers' interests, they can also have exclusively political objectives. Such "purely political" strikes ...

This study, commissioned by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions (PETI), demonstrates the need to change systems that respond to homelessness as an issue of individual dysfunction and inadequacy, to systems that end homelessness. The residential instability felt by the majority of those who are homeless needs to be addressed through the provision of integrated housing, welfare, and health services. Public policy should ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, discusses the impact of the ongoing cost-of-living and energy crises on the standard of living for persons with disabilities. Based on available evidence, it provides an overview on legislation, policy measures and schemes that support persons with disabilities and their families to cope with the rising cost of living at the EU level and in ...

Necesitatea unei comunicări eficiente are ca temei juridic Carta drepturilor fundamentale a Uniunii Europene (Carta), care garantează tuturor cetățenilor dreptul de a fi informați despre UE. Instituțiile UE au creat o serie de instrumente și servicii pentru a rămâne în contact cu publicul și pentru a-l informa. De la lansarea sa oficială în 2012, Inițiativa cetățenească europeană a permis cetățenilor să se implice într-un mod mai direct în legislația nouă și în chestiunile legate de UE.

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions (PETI), provides background information for the PETI Fact-finding visit to Donegal, Ireland, scheduled from 30 October to 1 November 2023. It investigates the issue of petitions 0789/2021, 0790/2021, 0799/2021, 0800/2021, 0801/2021, 0813/2021, 0814/2021 and 0837/2021 which raise concerns about the defective quality of certain building ...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions (PETI), provides an overview of the right to petition and the rules, procedures and practices used by parliaments for handling petitions, notably in terms of the submission of petitions, admissibility criteria, powers of consideration and criteria for closing petitions. The study also discusses publicity and feedback provided by petitions ...