Shaw, Jo:

How European are European Parliament Elections?

Eintrag vom: 06.03.2009
Kategorie: Artikel / Arbeitspapier
Thema: Legitimation

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Abstract / Schlüsselwörter

What is a ‘European’ Parliament and who should vote for it? Should it be the ‘citizens’ of the European Union alone? If so, should it be all EU citizens, or only those who are resident in the Member States? Or should the electorate include potentially all residents in the Member States which comprise the EU and who are thus affected by decisions taken in the Parliament? This would go beyond the definition of EU citizenship (as the nationals of the Member States) in Article 17 EC. Does anyone have a ‘right’ to vote for the European Parliament? If so, what is the nature of that right? Is it a fundamental right or a citizenship right? What is the territorial scope of the European Parliamentary demos? Is it circumscribed by the outer geographical boundaries of the EU, as set by Article 299 EC, or can those covered by the personal scope of Union citizenship also quite properly vote for the European Parliament when they are resident in a third state, or in some associated territory which is not fully part of the EU? And who should decide who votes for the European Parliament – the Member States, or the EU itself? In other words, is there a single European concept of the European Parliamentary demos, or twenty seven separate, but overlapping, national concepts?

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