The European Parliament (EP) is one of the 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 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world,with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters in 2009.
Sebastiano "Nello" Musumeci is a right-wing Italian politician. Musumeci is serving as Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni. He previously served as president of Sicily from 18 November 2017 until 13 October 2022.
The Feminist Party of Germany is a political party in Germany.
The Pizza Connection Trial was a criminal trial against the Sicilian and American mafias that took place before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City,U.S. The trial centered on a number of independently owned pizza parlor fronts used to distribute drugs,which had imported US$1.65 billion of heroin from Southwest Asia to the United States between 1975 and 1984. The trial lasted from September 30,1985,to March 2,1987,ending with 18 convictions,with sentences handed down on June 22,1987. Lasting about 17 months,it was the longest trial in the judicial history of the United States.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
Palma di Montechiaro is a town and comune in the province of Agrigento,Sicily,southern Italy. Many Greek archaeological findings of Magna Graecia have been found near the town.
Mafia II is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K. It was released on 24 August 2010 for PlayStation 3,Windows,and Xbox 360. The game is a standalone sequel to 2002's Mafia,and the second installment in the Mafia series. Set within the fictional city of Empire Bay from 1945 to 1951,the story follows Vito Scaletta,a young Sicilian-American mobster and war veteran,who becomes caught in a power struggle among the city's Mafia crime families while attempting to pay back his father's debts and secure a better lifestyle.
Greece is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Greece. It is currently represented by twenty-one Members of the European Parliament.
Giuseppe Arlacchi,also known as Pino,is an Italian sociologist and is well known worldwide for his studies and essays about the Mafia. He represents the Democratic Party and is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) parliamentary group since 2010.
Renato Maria Giuseppe Schifani is an Italian politician who has served as the President of Sicily since 13 October 2022. Born in Palermo,Schifani was a prominent member of the now-defunct centre-right People of Freedom (PdL) and served in the Italian Senate from 1996 to 2022. He then joined the New Centre-Right (NCD) party in 2013 but left it in 2016 for Forza Italia (FI),the PdL's successor. From 29 April 2008 to 14 March 2013,he was President of the Senate.
Enrico Alfano,also known as "Erricone",was considered to be one of the chiefs of the Camorra,a Mafia-type organisation in the region of Campania and its capital Naples in Italy,at the turn of the 20th century. He was described as "a kind of president of the confederation." According to some sources,Alfano was linked to the murder of New York City police lieutenant Joseph Petrosino in Palermo in 1909,however,the murder had since been attributed to the Sicilian Mafia.
Forza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy,whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism,Christian democracy,liberalism and populism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi was the party's leader and president until his death in 2023. The party has since been led by Antonio Tajani,who had been vice president and coordinatior and now functions as secretary. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati.
New Centre-Right was a centre-right political party in Italy. The party was launched on 15 November 2013 by a group of dissidents of The People of Freedom (PdL) who opposed the party's reformation as Forza Italia (FI),which would take place the following day. The NCD leader was Angelino Alfano,who had been Silvio Berlusconi's protégéand national secretary of the PdL from 2011 to 2013.
Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum on 23 June 2016,Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020. The UK is the only sovereign country to have left the EU. The UK had been a member state of the EU or its predecessor,the European Communities (EC),since 1 January 1973. Following Brexit,EU law and the Court of Justice of the European Union no longer have primacy over British laws. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains relevant EU law as domestic law,which the UK can amend or repeal.
European Choice was a pro-European and primarily liberal electoral alliance of political parties in Italy formed to contest the 2014 European election on a platform influenced heavily by the Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt.
Mafia is a series of action-adventure games originally created and developed by 2K Czech. Since the third installment,however,the games are developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K Games. The franchise consists of three mainline installments,along with a remake of the first game,a remastered version of the second game,and two spin-offs for mobile devices. A fourth game is in active development.
Satinderpal "Sonia" Sidhu is a Canadian politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal electoral district of Brampton South during the 2015 Canadian federal election.
Fulvio Martusciello is an Italian politician,and a member of the European Parliament since 2014.
Popular Alternative is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD),one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom. "Popular" is a reference to popolarismo,the Italian variety of Christian democracy. The party has been a member of the European People's Party (EPP) since its foundation,having inherited the membership of the NCD.
The 2024 European Parliament election is scheduled to be held on 6 to 9 June 2024. This will be the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979,and the first European Parliament election after Brexit.
