On Thursday 16 October, the centre-right Renew Europe group in the European Parliament listed a series of initiatives at the European level that would make life simpler for citizens within the European Union.
These initiatives cover various areas, including:
- administrative procedures, particularly when exercising the right to free movement (registration and electoral rights);
- digital identity, with the drafting of a Digital Fairness Act (see EUROPE 13732/9) and a single digital passport;
- health, in particular to facilitate cross-border treatment (recognition of medical prescriptions);
- employment and education, through increased automatic recognition of professional qualifications and skills acquired through voluntary work, and easier portability of social security rights;
- financial services, with simplified procedures for opening and changing bank accounts and the removal of tax barriers to small cross-border transfers;
- transport, through the creation of a pan-European platform for compensation concerning air passenger rights, the setting up of a system for issuing multimodal transport tickets, the creation of a single application for lost identity documents and the digitalisation of passports for pets;
- the environment, through better management of plastic packaging and marine waste, and the introduction of a label describing the carbon footprint of consumer products, based on the ‘nutri-score’ model; and
- justice, with the creation of a single portal on citizens’ rights in cross-border criminal cases and easier, less costly cross-border notarial procedures.
Read Renew Europe’s proposals: https://aeur.eu/f/j18 (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)