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‘At the end of this day, I cannot pretend that nothing has happened’, said French President Emmanuel Macron after the far-right Rassemblement National emerged as the clear winner of the European Parliament elections on June 9, 2024 . He...

This article examines the constitutionally grounded balance between the principle of transparency and the requirements of confidentiality in parliamentary committees of inquiry . These temporary suborganizations are central instruments of...

As a result of demographic change, young voters are increasingly losing influence in elections . Children and adolescents below voting age have no voting rights at all, yet are subject to policy and law . Previous proposals to combat these...

Roll-call votes play an important role in parliamentary research, but have so far focused almost exclusively on plenary votes due to a lack of data . In a transparency offensive, the European Parliament (EP) decided in 2014 to make roll-call votes...

In 2023, only 22 .4 percent of the members entitled to vote participated in the social insurance elections, i .e . the third biggest election in Germany . Against this backdrop, the paper describes the functions of the sectoral quasi-parliaments in...