nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191015-232725-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191015s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191015-232725-0 doi eng 342 23 Grasso, Giorgio Author aut The European Ombudsman as an Insurmountable Roadblock? The New Right to Request the European Parliament to de-Register European Political Parties Grasso, Giorgio Verfassungsblog 2019-10-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 17 September 2019, the European Ombudsman adopted a decision rejecting a complaint against the European Parliament submitted by The Good Lobby, an NGO “committed to giving voice to under-represented public interests and bringing more citizens into the public policy process”. The action was supported by Alberto Alemanno, also co-founder and director of the NGO, and Laurent Pech. In their post of last May 2019 they already described in detail their dealings with the Authority of European political parties and European political foundations (hereinafter the Authority) and with the President of Parliament. The subsequent stages and the Ombudsman’s take reveal the wider consequences of this process and some silver linings. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 EU citizen rights European Ombudsman European Parliament good administration Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-european-ombudsman-as-an-insurmountable-roadblock/ raw object