The institution of the Ombudsman is based on the idea that citizens should be entitled to complain against specific acts and behaviors of their rulers and that their complaints should be investigated by an independent body. In Europe, the establishment of a specific office to investigate citizen complaints against public bureaucracy is relatively recent, having started in Sweden in the early nineteenth century. The UE, too, instituted an Ombudsman in 1993: together with the Court of Justice it is part of a concretely more transparent network of government for the European citizens.
- Docente titolare: Marco Alberto Quiroz Vitale