Eighth European Parliament

8th European Parliament
1 July 2014 –
The logo of the European Parliament
President (1st ½) Martin Schulz
Commission Juncker
Political groups
MEPs 751
Elections May 2014 (Union)
Governing treaty Treaty of Lisbon[nb 1]

The eighth European Parliament was elected in the 2014 elections and will last until the 2019 elections.

Major events

Activity

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Source
Reports
Resolutions and positions
Parliamentary questions
Written declarations

Major resolutions and positions

Resolution/position number Procedure number Notes

Committees

Summary

Type Number Sources Notes
Standing committee
Temporary committee
Committee of enquiry

Temporary committees

Code Committee Report Sources

Committees of enquiry

Code Committee Report Sources

Delegations

Type Number Sources
Europe delegations
Non-Europe delegations
Ad-hoc delegations

Political groups

See membership below for details of size
Group name Acronym Seats Percent Chairs Vice-Presidents
  European People's Party EPP 221 29.4% Germany Manfred Weber 6
  Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D 191 25.4% Italy Gianni Pittella 3
  European Conservatives and Reformists ECR 70 9.3% United Kingdom Syed Kamall 1
  Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group ALDE 67 8.9% Belgium Guy Verhofstadt 2
  European United Left–Nordic Green Left GUE-NGL 52 6.9% Germany Gabriele Zimmer 1
  The Greens–European Free Alliance GREENS/EFA 50 6.7% Germany Rebecca Harms
Belgium Philippe Lamberts		 1
  Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy EFDD 48 6.4% United Kingdom Nigel Farage
Italy David Borrelli		 0
  Non-Inscrits[nb 2] NA 52 6.9% --- 0

Members in groups by country

Political group[1]
Country		 EPP S&D ALDE Greens/EFA ECR GUE-NGL EFD NI MEPs
Austria 5 5 1 3 4 18
Belgium 4 4 6 2 4 1 21
Bulgaria 7 4 4 2 17
Croatia 5 2 2 1 1 11
Cyprus 2 2 2 6
Czech Republic 7 4 4 2 3 1 21
Denmark 1 3 3 1 4 1 13
Estonia 1 1 3 1 6
Finland 3 2 4 1 2 1 13
France 20 13 7 6 4 1 23 74
Germany 34 27 4 13 8 8 2 96
Greece 5 4 1 6 5 21
Hungary 12 4 2 3 21
Ireland 4 1 1 1 4 11
Italy 17 31 3 17 5 73
Latvia 4 1 1 1 1 8
Lithuania 2 2 3 1 1 2 11
Luxembourg 3 1 1 1 6
Malta 3 3 6
Netherlands 5 3 7 2 2 3 4 26
Poland 23 5 19 4 51
Portugal 7 8 2 4 21
Romania 15 16 1 32
Slovakia 6 4 3 13
Slovenia 5 1 1 1 8
Spain 17 14 8 4 11 54
Sweden 4 6 3 4 1 2 20
United Kingdom 20 1 6 20 1 24 1 73
Total 221 191 66 50 71 52 48 52 751

Changes of group affiliation

The first change in group membership of the Eighth parliament occurred when Norica Nicolai, a Romanian MEP and a member of the National Liberal Party left the EPP group and rejoined the ALDE group on the 7th of July, 2014.[2]

On 2 October 2014, Richard Sulík of the Slovakian Freedom and Solidarity party, left the ALDE and expressed his intention to join the ECR.[3]

On 16 October 2014, it was reported that Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule had left the EFDD group to join the EPP. This move meant that the EFDD group contained MEPs from only six member states and therefore fell below the minimum level; the European Parliament authorities declared the group dissolved.[4]

Leadership

Presidents

Term President
(or candidate)		 Group State Votes
1 July 2014 – 1 January 2017[5] Martin Schulz   PES Germany Germany 409
Sajjad Karim   ECR United Kingdom United Kingdom 101
Pablo Iglesias Turrión   GUE-NGL Spain Spain 51
Ulrike Lunacek   Greens/EFA Austria Austria 51

Vice-Presidents

Members Group State Votes
1Antonio TajaniEPPItaly Italy452, Round 1
2Mairead McGuinnessEPPRepublic of Ireland Ireland441, Round 1
3Rainer WielandEPPGermany Germany437, Round 1
4Ramón Luis ValcárcelEPPSpain Spain406, Round 1
5Ildikó Pelczné GállEPPHungary Hungary400, Round 1
6Adina VăleanEPPRomania Romania394, Round 1
7Corina CrețuS&DRomania Romania406, Round 2
8Sylvie GuillaumeS&DFrance France406, Round 2
9David SassoliS&DItaly Italy394, Round 2
10Olli RehnALDEFinland Finland377, Round 3
11Alexander Graf LambsdorffALDEGermany Germany365, Round 3
12Ulrike LunacekGreens/EFAAustria Austria319, Round 3
13Dimitrios PapadimoulisGUE/NGLGreece Greece302, Round 3
14Ryszard CzarneckiECRPoland Poland284, Round 3

Quaestors

Further information: Quaestor (European Parliament)
Name Country Party Group
Élisabeth Morin  France Union for a Popular Movement EPP
Bogusław Liberadzki  Poland Democratic Left Alliance S&D
Catherine Bearder  United Kingdom Liberal Democrats ALDE
Andrey Kovatchev  Bulgaria GERB EPP
Karol Karski  Poland Law and Justice ECR

Membership

After the 2014 election, the members formed seven groups with 52 independent members, mainly MEPs against the Union who failed to unify into a political group.

Apportionment
State Seats State Seats State Seats State Seats
 Germany 96  Netherlands 26  Austria 18  Lithuania 11
 France 74  Belgium 21  Bulgaria 17  Latvia 8
 Italy 73  Czech Republic 21  Denmark 13  Slovenia 8
 United Kingdom 73  Greece 21  Finland 13  Cyprus 6
 Spain 54  Hungary 21  Slovakia 13  Estonia 6
 Poland 51  Portugal 21  Croatia 11  Luxembourg 6
 Romania 32  Sweden 20  Ireland 11  Malta 6
Total 751

Secretariat

See also

Elections

Notes

  1. ↑ The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon and all preceding amending treaties.
  2. ↑ Independents, not a group

References

  1. ↑ "Election Results". TNS opinion in collaboration with the European Parliament. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "După ce a lăsat PPE pentru ALDE, liberalii europeni au trimis-o pe Norica Nicolai în Comisia pentru Pescuit" (in Romanian). Evz.ro. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Odchádzam v europarlamente od liberálov, idem k reformistom" (in Slovak). Richard Sulík. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Eurosceptic MEP group collapses". BBC News online. 16 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Martin Schulz re-elected President of the European Parliament

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