The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity,the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart,the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative in social matters,following Catholic social teaching. The CSU is considered the de facto successor of the Weimar-era Catholic Bavarian People's Party.
The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
The Human Environment Animal Protection Party is a political party in Germany,founded in 1993. In 2014,one of the party's candidates was elected to the European Parliament,and one candidate was elected again in 2019. The party's only EU representative resigned from the party in February 2020 and since this date the party has had no members in the European Parliament. The party has never had any members in any of the German state parliaments,nor has it ever had any members of the Bundestag.
Die Partei für Arbeit,Rechtsstaat,Tierschutz,Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative,or Die PARTEI,is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election,the party won a seat,marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election,the party gained a second seat,held by Nico Semsrott.
Michael Kauch is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024 and as a Member of the Bundestag between 2003 and 2013.
Martin Hans Sonneborn is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a founder and federal chairman of Die PARTEI. He was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Titanic from 2000 to 2005 and works for Spiegel Online and ZDF.
The German part of the 2009 European Parliament election was held on Sunday,7 June. A total of 26 parties competed for the 99 seats reserved for Germany in the European Parliament. In the previous election of 2004,the six parties which were represented in the German national parliament (Bundestag) from 2005 to 2013,had entered the European Parliament by overcoming the 5% election threshold. The same parties entered the European Parliament this time. None of the other parties managed to gain more than 1.7%,but together the small parties exceeded 10% for the first time. At 43.3%,the voter turnout was just over the all-time low in the previous European election in Germany (43.0%).
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019. It was the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 512 million people from 28 member states.In February 2018,the European Parliament had voted to decrease the number of MEPs from 751 to 705 if the United Kingdom were to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2019. However,the United Kingdom participated alongside other EU member states after an extension of Article 50 to 31 October 2019;therefore,the allocation of seats between the member states and the total number of seats remained as it had been in 2014.
The Social Liberals,formerly New Liberals,is an association and a former minor political party in Germany based in Berlin.
Damian Hieronymus Johannes Freiherr von Boeselager is a German business consultant,journalist and politician of Volt Europa. He is member of European Parliament in The Greens/EFA Group since being elected in 2019.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 9 June 2024. It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979,and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. The election saw the CDU/CSU slightly increase its vote share,while all three parties comprising the government —the SPD,the Greens and the FDP —earned fewer votes than five years ago,with the Greens in particular suffering especially high losses. Conversely,the far-right AfD surged in both votes and seats,finishing second. There was a stark regional disparity:The AfD won at least a plurality in all but six districts in former East Germany:. The newly formed left-populist party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht also attracted a significant number of voters,with its support also being highest in the former East German states.
Guido Reil is a German politician who is serving as an Alternative for Germany Member of the European Parliament.
Jutta Paulus is a German politician Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and natural scientist,as well as former managing director of the laboratory LAUS GmbH in Kirrweiler/Pfalz. Since 2019,she is a Member of the European Parliament for Greens/EFA. Politico Europe magazine ranks Paulus among the most important politicians and policy makers in the European Union in the implementation of the European Green Deal.
Hannah Neumann is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Alexandra Geese is a German interpreter and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
The Ecological-Left Liberal Democratic Party short-form:ÖLDP,formerly known as the Social Liberal Democratic Party,is a minor party in Germany primarily active in the Hamburger borough of Altona. The party was founded by the former SPD member Bérangère Bultheel in 2012.
Volt Austria is a socialliberal political party in Austria and the Austrian chapter of Volt Europa a progressive and Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement.
The FDP Hamburg is the regional state association of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Hamburg. It was founded on September 20,1945,as the first liberal state party in West Germany.
Arne Semsrott is a German journalist and activist. He is the director of the freedom of information NGO FragDenStaat and founder of the political initiative Freiheitsfonds that campaigns for decriminalisation of fare-dodging.
