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C.  Entitlement to vote

1.  Vote of non-nationals in the host country

Voting age is 18 in all the Member States.

I take it the age is set on EU level? Then I think it is appropriate to tie these two together. Unless one wants to use this as an opportunity to push it downwards, then 16 is probably a good suggestion.

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by A swedish kind of death on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 08:54:47 AM EST
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That information is not completely refletive of the current situation as Austria allows 16 year-olds to vote. I do not know whether that would be only 16 year-old nationals or also 16 year-old non-nationals.

I generally think that tying it to the requirements to vote in the EU elections is a good idea.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 08:57:56 AM EST
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The right to vote in EU elections is indeed the most coherent and simple choice.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 09:39:41 AM EST
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Are you sure that the Austrian voting age for national elections applies for EP elections, too?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 01:36:28 PM EST
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Or at least the Commission is of that opinion in its green paper :-)
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Jan 17th, 2010 at 02:16:36 PM EST
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