Resumen de Towards an ever closer union between residents and citizens?: : On the Possible Extension of Voting Rights to Foreign Residents in Luxembourg
This essay addresses an issue that might seem utopian to many, namely the extension of voting rights to foreign residents in national legislative elections, a reform that might soon occur in Luxembourg. Such debates are indeed absent from other EU member states, in some of which foreigners' right to vote even in local elections remains subject to lively controversy. Whether Luxembourg will become the first country in the EU generally to allow foreign residents to vote in national legislative elections will be determined via a referendum in summer 2015, the outcome of which the Luxembourg Government has vowed to respect. In order to grasp the potential impact of such a reform, it should be noted that Luxembourg has - by far - the highest proportion of foreign residents in the EU. Almost half of its population does not have Luxembourg nationality
