The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union,it adopts European legislation,following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs),after the June 2024 European elections,from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world,with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024.
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
The Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) is a political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green political parties.
Claude Ajit Moraes,Baron Moraes,,is a British Labour Party politician and campaigner,who was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. He was chair of the Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs Committee,deputy leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and vice-president of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament.
Richard James Ashworth is a former British politician,who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2004 until 2019. He formerly sat in the European Parliament for the Conservative Party,and was that party's leader there from March 2012 to November 2013. In April 2019 Ashworth defected to Change UK,but was not elected to the European Parliament at the 2019 election held the following month.
The People's Movement against the EU is a far-left political association in Denmark against the European Union. It was founded in 1972 as a cross-party campaign platform for a 'no' vote in Denmark's referendum on EEC membership. The People's Movement was represented in the European Parliament from 1979 until 2019,when it lost its single seat in the European Parliament election.
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage;with more than 400 million people eligible to vote,they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
Manfred Weber is a German politician who has been serving as President of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2022 and as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament since 2014. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU),part of the European People's Party.
The Earth Party,previously called The Earth Party Movement,is a green-conservative political party in Portugal,founded on 12 August 1993. Its main political priorities are the promotion of environmental-friendly policies and the preservation of the national and cultural heritage of Portugal and of the remaining Portuguese-language countries.
The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million Europeans,making these the biggest trans-national elections in history. An additional 18 observers were pre-elected.
Free Voters is a political party in Germany. It originates as an umbrella organisation of several Free Voters Associations,associations of people which participate in an election without having the status of a registered party. These associations are usually locally-organised groups of voters in the form of a registered association (eV). In most cases,Free Voters campaign only at local government level,standing for city councils and for mayoralties. Free Voters tend to achieve their most successful electoral results in rural areas of southern Germany,appealing most to conservative voters who prefer local decisions to party politics. Free Voter groups are active in all of the states of Germany.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Group is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party,but also includes MEPs from other European parties and MEPs without European party affiliation.
Esther M. R. de Lange is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) between 2007 and 2024. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA),part of the European People's Party (EPP),she was elected as delegation leader in the European Parliament at a party conference on 2 November 2013 in Leeuwarden,a position she assumed the following year. In July 2014 she was elected as Vice President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament and in June 2018 as Vice President of the EPP Party. De Lange stepped down as MEP in February 2024.
Amjad Mahmood Bashir is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Yorkshire and the Humber region between 2014 and 2019. He was elected in 2014 for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and defected to the Conservative Party on 24 January 2015. In April 2024 it was announced he had joined the Workers Party of Britain.
Miriam Dalli is a Maltese politician of the Labour Party and former journalist who has been serving as a member of the Parliament of Malta since 2020. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2020.
Petr Ježek is a former Czech politician and diplomat. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2019,representing ANO 2011. While an MEP,he chaired a Parliamentary Committee and an External Delegation,and was ranked as the 20th most influential MEP of 751 by the Vote Watch Europe analyst group.
The 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 26 May 2019,and elected the Danish members to the European Parliament. The elections are part of the EU-wide elections for the parliament. Denmark had 13 seats in parliament,which increased by one additional seat following Brexit.
Identity and Democracy was a far-right political group of the European Parliament,launched on 13 June 2019 for the Ninth European Parliament term. It comprised far right,right-wing populist,Eurosceptic and nationalist national parties from six European states. It was the successor to the Europe of Nations and Freedom group formed during the eighth term and almost all of its members merged into the Patriots for Europe group formed during the tenth term.
Bert-Jan Ruissen(born 22 March 1972) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Reformed Political Party (SGP),part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).
The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979,and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. A total of 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 450 million people from 27 member states. This election also coincided with a number of other elections in some European Union member states.
