The Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG) is responsible for coordinating the democracy support activities of the European Parliament (EP). Over the course of the eighth legislature, the DEG has aimed to bring strategic focus to its democracy support activities through the intr...
In The other side of everything, the documentary film-maker Mila Turajlić paints a sensitive portrait of her mother Srbijanka Turajlić, a political activist who played a significant role in Serbia’s recent history, in particular the period after Slobodan Milošević — of whom Srbijanka is a fierce...
How is electoral competition structured in Europe? This fundamental problem lies at the core of democracy, as popular sovereignty depends on the existence of a real policy choice, and requires the most preferred alternative being selected and implemented (Dahl 1956). However, there is no consens...
Upon request by the PETI Committee, this study considers issues raised in petitions to the European Parliament by citizens concerned about the way Brexit will impact on their rights. In particular, it first looks at the changes that Brexit will determine in relation to voting rights, the right t...
The September 2018 edition is the fifth update of the Review of European and National Elections, firstly published in November 2014. The latter focused on the results of the European elections of May 2014, featured a historical report on the 35 years of direct election to the European Parliament...
This report, inspired by the work of DG REGIO on the Geography of Discontent, adopts a territorial perspective in analysing across all Member States opinions and voting in relation to immigration and trust in the EU. As indicated recently in the mission letter on Democracy and Demography for the...
The data presented in this leaflet is extracted from the Flash Eurobarometer Survey n°408 done by TNS Political & Social at the request of the European Commission in December 2014. Over 13.000 young people between 15 and 30 were interviewed in the 28 Member States of the European Union. This Eur...
