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#YEYSturns10: Vote for the future!

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Your Europe, Your Say! 2019
99 rue Belliard
Brussels
Belgium

2019 will be an election year and the new European Parliament will have very important decisions to make, at a time when everything from the economy to communication and from politics to social trends are being revolutionised on a daily basis.

How do you, as a young person, view these changes, and the opportunities and potential risks they bring, and what future solutions might you have to offer?

If you want to discuss these issues with other students from 33 countries, why not take part in YEYS 2019 by sharing your vision and celebrating with us the 10th anniversary of this event?

21/03/2019 22/03/2019

European Citizens' Panel on the future of Europe

Event
Brussels
Belgium

For the first time in the history of the EU, the Commission will convene a Citizens' Panel to prepare a public consultation on the Future of Europe. On 5-6 May, a group of 80 Europeans will come to Brussels from 27 Member States, and work together to draft a 12-question online consultation. This unique exercise in participative democracy will see citizens shaping the conversation on the Future of Europe ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2019. 

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17/05/2019
Declaration of the Workers' Group - EU Elections 2019
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We want a European Union that delivers for the many, not for the few: that is social, democratic and progressive. We will work towards a EU that protects and enables workers and other citizens and provides secure and fair perspectives for all by tackling the challenges of globalization, digitalization and climate change in a coherent way...

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Declaration of the Workers' Group - Elections 2019

15/05/2019
Let's turn out and vote for a united Europe
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EESC resolution urges civil society to turn out in force at European elections and vote for a united Europe
The EESC's plenary session on 15 May adopted a resolution calling on all EU citizens to turn out at the forthcoming European elections and vote in favour of a united Europe. The Committee also invited civil society organisations to join efforts to mobilise voters. Read the full text here.

 

 

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Resolution - Let's turn out and vote for a united Europe

Europe listening to its citizens for a sustainable Europe

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2 pages

In view of the informal Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the EU on the future of Europe in Sibiu (Romania), on 9 may 2019, the EESC, as the institutional representative of organised civil society, sets out its own vision of the future with Europe becoming the world leader on sustainable development. To this end, The Committee calls for a new strategy based on a global, cross-sectoral approach focusing on the needs of the citizens with the primary goal of sustainability.

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Real rights of persons with disabilities to vote in European Parliament elections. Information report

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37 pages

This report presents the state of play of the implementation of the right of European Union (EU) citizens with disabilities to vote in elections to the European Parliament (EP). The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), an EU advisory body, believes it has a duty, in the run-up to the EP elections, to provide EU institutions, Member States and EU citizens with a full picture of how this right is actually implemented. The EESC hopes that at the next elections in 2024, no EU citizen will be deprived of their right to vote because of their disability.

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2019

Breaking down the barriers. Persons with disabilities and their right to vote in European Parliament elections

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24 pages

All adult Europeans, including those with disabilities, have the right to vote in national and European Parliament elections. A report by European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) rapporteur Krzysztof Pater estimates that around 800 000 EU citizens in 16 EU countries are legally deprived by national rules of their right to vote in elections to the European Parliament because of their disabilities or mental health problems.

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