What is the minimum voting age?
There are differences among the Member States. In several countries, you can both vote and stand for elections at the age of 18 (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden). But in Austria you can vote at the age of 16 and stand in elections at 18. In Italy, you must be 18 to vote and 25 to stand for election. Who can’t be an MEP? There are several positions that are incompatible with being an MEP. Nobody can be at once an MEP and a Minister or national MP, nor an active official of the European institutions. Some countries lay down further incompatibilities to being an MEP, for instance being a bank director in Austria, a career member of the police in Hungary, an agent paid by the national railway society in Ireland or a television director in Spain. Voting by post Voting by post or in polling stations in embassies is not possible for Maltese citizens, though some Member States allow it. For a number of years it has been a Maltese governme
