The president of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. They also represent the Parliament within the European Union (EU) and internationally. The president's signature is required for enacting most EU laws and the EU budget.
Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet (2017–2021) and Hendrik Wüst. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Markus Ferber is a German engineer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. He is a member of the Christian Social Union,part of the European People's Party. In addition to his parliamentary work,Ferber has been serving as president of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) since 2020.
Udo Bullmann is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 1999. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD),part of the Party of European Socialists.
Martin Schulz is a German politician who served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2017 to 2018,and was a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) from 2017 to 2021. Previously he was President of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2017,Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats from 2004 to 2012 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 1994 to 2017.
Manfred Weber is a German politician who has served 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 in Bavaria (CSU),part of the European People's Party.
The Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is a committee of the European Parliament that is responsible for protecting civil liberties and human rights,as listed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Jean Arthuis is a French politician. Over the course of career,he has held various ministerial positions and served as Member of the European Parliament from France,where he chaired the Committee on Budgets. He also serves as Senator representing Mayenne in the French Parliament.
Andrea Maria Nahles is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.
Johannes Kahrs is a former German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the German parliament,Deutscher Bundestag,from 1998 until 2020.
Thomas Ludwig Albert Oppermann was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From October 2017 until his death he served as Vice President of the Bundestag. In his earlier career,he served as First Secretary (2007–2013) and later as chairman (2013–2017) of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag,as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter.
Jens Geier is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Werner Gustav Schulz was a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens. Trained in food technology at the Humboldt University of Berlin,he worked as a research assistant. He was an activist for peace ecology and human rights in several oppositional groups from the 1970s. He lost his university job in 1980 when he protested against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. In the Peaceful Revolution,he was in 1989 a founding member of the New Forum,representing the group at the Round Table. He was elected to the first freely Volkskammer. After German reunification,he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2005,and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that,she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs,Senior Citizens,Women and Youth and,from 28 September 2017,as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,both until 14 March 2018.
Dieter Gerald Janecek is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. From 2008 to 2014 Janecek was chairman of the Bavarian Green Party.
Jutta Paulus is a German pharmacist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens since 2019.
Gyde Jensen is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017.
Kordula Schulz-Asche is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2013.
Axel Helmut Schäfer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Born in Frankfurt,Hesse,he has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2002.
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