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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 ...

In June 2024, around 400 million EU citizens go to the polls to elect the Members of the European Parliament's 10th legislature. As the only EU institution that represents EU citizens, elections to the European Parliament are therefore major democratic events, and the only one at EU level that resembles national democratic electoral consultation. European elections, however, differ from the national version, as they are part of a context of multi-tier government, sometimes perceived as 'second order ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.

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.

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 ...

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 ...