In fact, there is a growing trend to grant the right to vote in local elections to long-standing foreign residents. Under EU law, all EU citizens living in another EU country are already entitled to vote in local and European Parliament elections in that country. Even non-EU foreigners with permanent residency are allowed to vote in local and/or regional elections in many CoE member states (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, Island, Finland, the Netherlands, Ireland as well as, nowadays, Belgium, Estonia and Luxembourg). However, a number of CoE member states have not yet followed the general recommendation.