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Implications of the Digital Transformation on Different Social Groups
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 ...
An Tionscnamh Eorpach ó na Saoránaigh
Ionstraim thábhachtach um dhaonlathas rannpháirteach in AE is ea an Tionscnamh Eorpach ó na Saoránaigh (TES), lenar féidir le haon mhilliún saoránach a bhfuil cónaí orthu sa cheathrú chuid de na Ballstáit a iarraidh ar an gCoimisiún togra le haghaidh gníomh dlíthiúil a thíolacadh chun Conarthaí AE a chur chun feidhme. Ó cuireadh i bhfeidhm Rialachán 2011 lena mbunaítear nósanna imeachta mionsonraithe i ndáil le TES, rinneadh deich dtionscnamh a thíolacadh go rathúil don Choimisiún. Amhail ó Eanáir ...
AT A GLANCE Policy Departments’ Monthly Highlights - December 2023
An ceart chun achainí a dhéanamh
Ó tháinig Conradh Maastricht i bhfeidhm, bhí sé de cheart ag gach saoránach de AE agus ag cónaitheoirí nádúrtha agus dlítheanacha uile na mBallstát achainí i bhfoirm gearáin nó iarrata, maidir le saincheist a thagann faoi réimsí gníomhaíochta an Aontais Eorpaigh, a chur faoi bhráid Pharlaimint na hEorpa. Scrúdaíonn Coiste um Achainíocha na Parlaiminte na hachainíocha, a dhéanann cinneadh maidir lena n-inghlacthacht agus atá freagrach as déileáil leo.
Towards an EU-wide right to politically strike: A constitutional perspective
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 ...
Homelessness in the European Union
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 ...
Targeted measures for persons with disabilities to cope with the cost-of-living crisis
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 ...
Beartas cumarsáide
Tá bunús dlí leis an ngá atá le cumarsáid éifeachtach i gCairt um Chearta Bunúsacha an Aontais Eorpaigh (an Chairt), faoina ráthaítear an ceart atá ag gach saoránach go gcuirfí ar an eolas iad faoi shaincheisteanna AE. Tá forbairt déanta ag institiúidí AE ar roinnt uirlisí agus seirbhísí chun fanacht i dteagmháil leis an bpobal agus é a chur ar an eolas. Ó seoladh é go foirmiúil in 2012, leis an Tionscnamh Eorpach ó na Saoránaigh lamháladh do na saoránaigh a bheith níos rannpháirtí go díreach i reachtaíocht ...
PETI Fact-finding visit to Donegal, Ireland - 30 October - 1 November 2023
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 ...
Rules, procedures and practices of the right to petition parliaments - A fundamental right to a process
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 ...