Right of foreigners to vote of other supranational groupings of countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty imposed reciprocity inside the European Union concerning voting rights in local elections; this already existed for the European elections. In several European states, the public debate on the right of foreigners to vote was therefore renewed, as some foreign residents had the right to vote (European foreign residents) while others, non-Europeans, did not. As a result of this debate, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia and Belgium extended the right to vote, in different manners, to all foreign residents (which was already the case in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands). The European Parliament,
Women in the military by country forces. In December 2015, it was announced that women would be permitted to begin training in autumn 2016 in order to enter all roles by the end of that year. In 2016 a ban on women serving in close combat roles in the British military was lifted by Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2017 the Royal Air Force's ground-fighting force became open to women for the first time, making the RAF the first branch of the British military to open every role to female service personnel. In 2018, women became allowed to apply for all roles in the British military.