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),due to rise to 720 after the June 2024 European elections. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world,with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters in 2009.
Diana Paulette Wallis,is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009. She resigned her seat in January 2012 and went on to pursue academic,legal and mediation-related activities.
David Casa is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is Malta's longest serving MEP,having served since June 2004. As a member of the Nationalist Party in Malta,he belongs to the European People's Party.
Anna Cecilia Malmström is a Swedish politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade from 2014 to 2019. She previously served as European Commissioner for Home Affairs from 2010 to 2014 and Minister for European Union Affairs from 2006 to 2010. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden from 1999 to 2006.
Charlie Andreas Weimers is Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden since 2019. He is a member of the Sweden Democrats,part of European Conservatives and Reformists.
Tonino Picula is a Croatian politician currently serving his third term as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia,having successfully run in 2013,2014,and 2019 European elections. He got involved in politics in the early 1990s and had served four consecutive terms as a member of the Croatian Parliament,having been elected in 2000,2003,2007,and 2011 parliamentary elections as a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 under prime minister Ivica Račan,and as mayor of Velika Gorica from 2005 to 2009.
Marie Arena is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS),part of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Roberta Metsola is a Maltese politician. A member of Malta's Nationalist Party (PN) and the European People's Party (EPP),she has been serving as president of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Axel Voss is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 and became coordinator of the European People's Party group in the Committee on Legal Affairs in 2017. His parliamentary work focuses on digital and legal topics.
Milan Brglez is a Slovenian political scientist and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia from 2014 to 2018. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Social Democrats,part of the Party of European Socialists,Brglez was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election.
Siegfried Mureșan is a Romanian economist and politician,vice-president of the European People's Party (EPP) since November 2019,vice-president of the European People's Party Group in the European Parliament and member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). He was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Romania in 2014 and 2019. Previously,he was a member of the People's Movement Party (PMP) between 2014 and 2018 and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) before 2014.
Birgit Sippel is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Michiel Frans van Hulten is Director of Transparency International EU and a former Dutch politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004) and was chairman of the Labour Party from December 2005 until April 2007.
The ninth European Parliament was elected during the 2019 elections and is slated to remain in session until the forthcoming 2024 elections.
Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield is a French politician from the ecologist party Europe Ecologie Les Verts,who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Vladimír Bilčík is a Slovak university lecturer and politician of the Slovak party Democrats. He has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. During the 2019 European Parliament election in Slovakia,Bilčík ran as the leader of Democrats,as part of a coalition with Progressive Slovakia. He got 26,202 preferential votes in total.
Christophe Hansen is a Luxembourgish politician belonging to the Christian Social People's Party (CSV),of which he is Secretary-General.
Daniel Freund is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the national level and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
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.
Adrián Vázquez Lázara is a Spanish politician,MEP elected for Citizens in 2019 and who agreed to join as an independent on the PP's lists for the 2024 European elections following Feijoo's offer and the political disappearance of Cs.
