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Election Assessment Mission Report with good practice examples published
Brussels, Vienna, 30 September 2024: Today, Election-Watch.EU published its Final Report with key findings, good practices and recommendations of the Election Assessment Mission (EAM) to the 2024 European Parliament Elections. From the beginning of May to mid-June, the Mission assessed the European elections across the 27 EU Member States based on six key principles: integrity, inclusion, accountability, transparency, equality, and resilience.
Reference report [...]
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Webinar on European elections’ good practices and lessons learned
Brussels, Vienna, 24 September 2024: The final Supporting Engagement in European Elections and Democratic Societies (SEEEDS) project webinar focused on the 2024 European Parliament elections.
Panelists included Marie-Hélène Boulanger of the [...]
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Vote Advice Application for the Austrian general elections online
Vienna, 16 September 2024: Since Monday, 16 September 2024, the vote advice application wahlrechner.at for the 2024 Austrian National Council election is online. The wahlrechner.at was first tested during the European elections as a pilot project, where the app recorded 550,000 users.
The project, initiated by several democracy-focused NGOs, is supported both technically and content-wise by the association KohoVolit.eu, which [...]
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Webinar on what we observed in the 2024 European Elections
Brussels, Vienna 28 August 2024: Election-Watch.EU will present an overview of findings and recommendations of its Election Assessment Mission (EAM) to the 2024 Elections at the SEEEDS webinar on Tuesday, 24 September at 16:00 hours.
Election-Watch.EU has been collecting good electoral practices in EU Member States and with the Final EAM Report [...]
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Presentation of EAM preliminary findings at international public law conference ICON-S
Brussels/Madrid, 8 July 2024: Election-Watch.EU was invited to present preliminary findings of its Election Assessment Mission (EAM) to the 2024 European Elections at a panel of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Conference on “The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence” which took place at the IE University Law School in Madrid, Spain, July 8-10, 2024.
The panel “The 2024 European elections: state of [...]
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Post-Election Presentation to the Election Management Bodies of EU Member States
Brussels, 5 July 2024: The European Commission Directorate General Justice (EC DG JUST) invited Election-Watch.EU to meet the European Cooperation Network on Elections (ECNE) following the 6-9 June European Parliament elections. The presentation of Election-Watch.EU’s preliminary findings and conclusions followed a Q&A with the representatives of Election Management Bodies and authorities of EU Member States.
Election-Watch.EU provided an overview of the [...]
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Preliminary Statement of the Election Assessment Mission to the European Elections
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European Union,General,International
Participation of Mobile EU citizens – Infographics in 24 European languages released
Brussels, Vienna, 20 May 2024: Mobile EU citizens are those EU citizens living in another EU Member State than their own. Election-Watch.EU provides the below infographics about mobile EU citizen participation in European Parliament elections to help increase electoral participation and voter turnout among mobile EU citizens. This material also responds to identified needs from the 2019 European Parliament elections, as voter turnout among mobile EU [...]
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Election Assessment Mission Office in Brussels opened
Brussels, 14 May 2024: The Election-Watch.EU Election Assessment Mission (EAM) to the European Parliament Elections 2024 has set up office in Brussels and is operating a full fledged mission since beginning of May. The Core Team of Experts based in Brussels coordinates the EAM and liaises with EU institutions, European political parties (EUPPs) and civil society organisations (CSOs).
The EAM builds on the strong network of international election observers and experts [...]
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