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...
Cette nouvelle étude, qui complète la Série sur l'histoire du Parlement, revient sur le long processus qui a conduit aux premières élections européennes directes, et montre en quoi l'Acte de 1976 a fait l'objet de controverses dans les sphères publiques nationales des États membres. Après une pr...
This study focuses on electoral reform in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, which have all concluded Association Agreements with the EU. Recent experience in all three countries has shown that political elites are changing (or not changing) the electoral system to hold onto power. Beyond the choice ...
On 7 December, the European Parliament (EP) and the European University Institute (EUI) held a joint history roundtable on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Electoral Act, which introduced direct elections to the European Parliament. The event, organised by the Robert Schuman Cent...
The legislative initiative report on the "Reform of the Electoral Law of the European Union", drawn-up by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs calls for amendment of the Act concerning the election of Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage. In this report, the Co-Rapp...
Two papers included in this compendium reflect on the electoral reform of the European Parliament. First, written by Andrew Duff, EP's rapporteur on the electoral reform (2004-2014), discusses the ways on how the EP should reform itself in order to contribute to a strengthening of the democratic...
As the ‘short twentieth century’ came to an end, more and more democracies seriously considered the possibility –often for the first time in their history- of changing their national electoral system. Since then, the total number of electoral reforms enacted in countries that select their rulers...
The workshop ‘The situation in Ukraine ahead of the 2012 parliamentary elections and the preparation of these elections’, organised under the patronage of the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) and the Delegation for relations with Ukraine, took place on 11 October 2012 in the European Parliament....
