EUDO CITIZENSHIP presented the findings of the FRACIT project at the European Parliament in Brussels on February 26, 2013. The conference on “Access to Electoral Rights: Citizenship, Residence and the Franchise in Local, Regional, National and European election” was organised and hosted by the European Parliament Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO). In May, the full Study will be published by the AFCO and posted on the EUDO-citizenship website. Between April and June, new databases on electoral laws, electoral rights of non-citizens and of non-residents, as well as a series of country reports on electoral franchise covering all EU Member States and Croatia will also be made available online.

Download the presentations of our speakers in pdf:

• External voting rights and participation of EU citizens residing in third countries in national and EP elections, by Derek Hutcheson (University College Dublin)
• Practical and legal consequences of the absence of external representations of the EU and Member States for EU citizens residing in a third country, by Madalina Moraru (EUI)
• Eligibility of EU citizens for high political and administrative mandates in EU member states, by Lamin Khadar (University of Edinburgh)
• Electoral rights and participation of third country citizens in their EU country of residence, by Jean-Thomas Arrighi (EUI)
• Electoral rights and participation of third country nationals in their country of origin, by Mike Collyer (University of Sussex)
• Access to the franchise via national citizenship: naturalisation and ius soli in EU member states, by Rainer Bauböck (EUI)