Political participation is considered an essential feature of democracy. The European Union (EU) aimed to foster political participation with the introduction of European citizenship, which gives the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal and European Parliament elections in whichever EU country the citizen resides. However, from the few figures available, registration and turnout rates among mobile EU citizens seem very low. In this article, we investigate the effectiveness of a proactive campaign in order to promote the participation of European non-national residents in municipal elections by focusing on a specific initiative: the VoteBrussels Campaign. Focusing on Brussels, and in the general on the Belgian case, offers us the opportunity to carry out a quasi-experimental design. Our findings suggest that a mobilisation campaign has a positive regionwide effect on the participation of mobile EU citizens.

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促进欧盟非国家公民的政治参与：布鲁塞尔案例

政治参与被认为是民主的基本特征。欧盟 (EU) 旨在通过引入欧洲公民身份来促进政治参与，这赋予公民在任何欧盟国家居住的市政和欧洲议会选举中投票和作为候选人的权利。然而，从可用的少数数据来看，流动欧盟公民的注册率和投票率似乎非常低。在本文中，我们通过关注一项具体举措：VoteBrussels 运动，调查了一项积极运动的有效性，以促进欧洲非本国居民参与市政选举。关注布鲁塞尔，以及总体上关注比利时的案例，为我们提供了进行准实验设计的机会。