Colonial Voting Rights

Abstract

This case note discusses recent cases on voting rights for the European Parliament in Gibraltar and the Dutch Carribean countries, as well as the case of (lack of) voting rights for Carribean Dutch citizens for the national parliament in the European Court of Human Rights. It highlights the manner in which the ECJ and ECtHR are at odds on the same issue (but in different context), and how this context is determined by the way these courts wish to conceive of constitutional relations between EU, ECHR and national constitutions.