Voting rights of mobile Union citizens in the European Parliament elections

The EU Parliament has voted on a directive on the voting rights of mobile EU citizens. It proposed new regulations for EU citizens who live in an EU member state of which they do not have citizenship. This affects 13.7 million people, of whom around eleven million are eligible to vote. The aim of the new regulation is to remove existing obstacles to EU elections for this group. These include access to information, registration procedures, the impact of removal from the electoral roll in the home Member State and the exchange of information between Member States to prevent multiple voting. The measures apply equally to active and passive voting rights. The EU Parliament decides to approve the Council's previous draft through a roll-call vote. Attention: The voting results shown on the right only reflect the voting behavior of the 96 German MEPs and not that of all 720 MEPs. Overall, the directive was adopted with 587 votes in favour, 60 against and 21 abstentions. Of the German MEPs, 89 voted for and none against. There was no abstention.

Vote breakdown