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Disenfranchisement broadly means depriving someone of a legal right or privilege. Nowadays the term is often used to mean taking away the right to vote from a person or a group. Reasons for this can include residence abroad, a criminal conviction, intellectual disability or mental illness.
This EPRS paper analyses progress made in carrying through the policy agenda set by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and her College of Commissioners when they took office in December 2019.
The democratic information sphere has undergone a rapid and profound evolution over the course of the past two decades.
A statement by Global Affairs Canada says the Canadian government is suspending all direct funding to Niger, but other assistance to vulnerable populations will continue.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has shattered assumptions and expectations about protracted peace in the wider European space. It has stimulated serious reflection about the instruments and tools available to restore peace in times of contestation between great powers and of weakened multilateral institutions, phenomena that have been observed consistently throughout the past decade.
With the intention of informing discussion in the approach to the 2024 European elections, this study examines the historical, factual and legal aspects surrounding the Spitzenkandidaten, or lead candidate process, which establishes a political link between the nomination of the President of the European Commission and the political composition of the European Parliament.
The European Electoral Act of 1976 allows the EU Member States to set the minimum age for standing as a candidate in European elections.
Every five years, Europeans go to the polls to elect their representatives in the European Parliament.
Thailand’s May 14 general election could become the most consequential political event in the country since the mid-1970s, when a pro-democracy movement first toppled the ruling military regime. The winner this round was the progressive Move Forward Party (MFP), which secured 152 of the 500 seats in the lower House. The party ran on a…
Nitasha Kaul talks about Indian democracy, technology, surveillance, and the status of human rights in Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir.