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Politics
How the formation of new European Parliament Party Groups is going
With the right in flux, increasing fragmentation of the political landscape in member states, and the need for von der Leyen to secure a governing majority in the European Parliament, group formation has never looked so messy.
ALDE Party’s 2024 Manifesto: Your Europe, Your Freedom
ALDE Party's manifesto for the 2024 European elections aims at transforming the European Union in response to today's challenges, outlining commitments in key areas such as security and defence, economic growth and sustainability and institutional reform.
Participatory budgeting: Engaging citizens in decision making
Participatory budgeting is a form of citizen participation in which citizens are involved in the process of deciding how public money is spent. Local people are often given a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process following the allocation of budgets.
Europeans would like to see values-based foreign policy and ditch veto
A recent survey of 2,752 EU citizens across ten member states reveals that Europeans are calling for an EU foreign policy based on values such as security, human rights, and freedom. They believe that the current veto-system in the EU Council hinders a more unified foreign policy.
Participatory budgets: growing trend, little impact?
Read this infographic in Romanian and in Dutch. More and more European municipalities are turning to a co-decision tool allowing citizens to decide how to spend local resources, but its impact remains uncertain as low participation levels …
No space for violence against women and girls in Europe
An increasing number of women and girls are subjected to violence, with 1 in 3 women above the age of 15 having been victims of gender-based violence in the European Union, and 1 in 20 women having been raped. Every …
Participatory budgeting: Europe’s bet to increase trust in government
Participatory budgeting (PB) - the shared decision between city leaders and inhabitants on spending a part of the municipal budget - is becoming an increasingly popular democratic tool in Europe.
MINDSET survey analysis on the needs of equality bodies and civil society organisations
This Survey Analysis is part of the project MINDSET co-financed by DG JUST through the REC Programme. The concept has been developed due to the gap between EU legislation in the field of non-discrimination based on ethnic origin and the implementation …
#TheCoordinators – Do you know them?
As representatives of the political groups in the standing committees, they hold a pivotal role in its political decision-making process. They coordinate their group’s viewpoint on policy issues, and together with the chair and the vice-chairs, they organise the work …
#TheImplementers – Balanced enough?
Logos has created an organisational chart for each of the top EU priorities – Green Deal, Digital Age, and People Centre Economy – of the Von der Leyen commission.
Only connect – the network of European political families
The political groups in the European Parliament, which help shape EU-wide legislation, are a vaguely familiar concept to citizens. But they are merely a cog in the much less understood and multi-layered network of political actors that connect Brussels to …
UK constitutional crisis – what next?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost his governing majority and wants to go to the British people with a 'People vs Parliament' campaign to give him a new majority, and a mandate to take the UK out of the EU with or without a deal on October 31. Here are the likely options.
EU elections: what’s next
Following the European elections in May, MEPs and EU member states will shape the transition into the new term. These are the next steps towards the formation of the Parliament and the Commission.
How the Spitzenkandidaten process will work ahead of 2019 elections
The European elections are looming ever closer but how will the Parliament's main political groups choose their candidates for the EU's top jobs in the lead-up to May 2019?
Why Europe Matters: Youth Speak Up
Why Europe Matters is a joint initiative by JA Europe and ERT, based on a combination of innovation workshops and a survey, exploring young Europeans’ views about Europe and the EU.
European People’s Party: What role for the regions and cities in EU 2019 elections?
The European People's Party local dialogues are a central part of the grassroots engagement for the 2019 European elections, an initiative to be launched in Sofia, Bulgaria on 9 March 2018.
The road to Brexit and beyond
The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. But how did it get to this stage? And what happens next? As the negotiations fast approach, familiarise yourself with the all-important dates and events.
Quiz: Who should you vote for in the French election?
Answer EURACTIV’s 10 questions and see which candidate you should back on 23 April.
Referendums, France’s new election fad
Since Brexit, many of the candidates for the 2017 French presidential election have been campaigning to leave the EU or renegotiate the treaties. Some hope to validate these positions with referendums.
5 differences in corporates & federations communication
In April 2016, EURACTIV circulated a survey among EU affairs experts working in corporations and federations in Brussels, trying to examine the different roles these entities play in “the Bubble”, the synergies between them, but also what sets them apart in their approach to raise awareness of various policy aspects.
INFOGRAPHIC: EPP is third largest party at EU summits
As EU leaders gather today (17 March) for yet another summit, trying to fix the migrant crisis, successive elections in member countries have dwarfed the largest political force in the EU following the 2014 European elections.
The European Peoples’ Party, who is the largest in the European Parliament with 251 MEPs out of the total of 751, is now the third force, by the number of its heads of state and government sitting at the summits. The most influential leader of the EPP is without any doubt the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Socialists and Democrats, who have 190 MEPs, are now the number one force at summits.
But perhaps more surprisingly, the liberals, who have only 70 MEPs in the European Parliament and are the fourth largest political group there, are now the second largest force at EU summits.
INFOGRAPHIC: Who’s behind bars in EU prisons?
INFOGRAPHIC: Who are the EU summit champions?
The EU summit today (7 March) will be the 101st for Jean-Claude Juncker, as premier of Luxembourg and president of the European Commission. Second comes German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with 66 summits Third is Donald Tusk, with 57 summits as premier of Poland and president of the European Council.