Shaping and reforming European active citizenship from 2019 to 2024 European elections
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2024.11.74-84Keywords:
active citizenship, democratic participation, 2024 European electionsAbstract
In a European context, active citizenship refers to the acquisition and exercise ofrights for civic and political participation. The current contribution will emphasize the importance of this issue in the 2024 European elections. The study compares official views and papers emphasizing active citizenship from the 2019 European elections to those utilized in the 2024 European elections. In the time frame between the two European elections, the Conference on the Future of Europe (2021), European Democracy Action Plan or Defence of Democracy packages significantly expanded the ideas put forward during the electoral campaign of 2019 in two directions: to enable Europeans to share their ideas on the issues they considered important to build the future of our Union and to seek the views of the hardest to reach, those who rarely engage with politics or perhaps have not voted in previous European elections. They were supplemented by measures that increase understanding and public participation in European decision-making, which are critical.
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