Seventh European Parliament
This article needs to be updated.(June 2010) |
7th European Parliament | |
---|---|
14 July 2009 – 17 April 2014 | |
President (1st Half) | Jerzy Buzek |
President (2nd Half) | Martin Schulz |
Commission | Barroso |
Political groups | |
MEPs | 736 (754 from 1 December 2011) |
Elections | |
The seventh European Parliament was elected in the 2009 elections and lasted until the 2014 elections.
Major events
Group | Leader(s) | MEPs | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
EPP
|
Joseph Daul | 274 | ||
S&D | Hannes Swoboda | 195 | ||
ALDE | Guy Verhofstadt | 85 | ||
Greens-EFA
|
Daniel Cohn-Bendit Rebecca Harms |
58 | ||
ECR | Martin Callanan
|
56 | ||
GUE-NGL
|
Gabi Zimmer | 35 | ||
EFD | Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni |
33 | ||
Non-Inscrits | MEPs without group | 30 | Source: European Parliament |
- 4–7 June 2009
- 14 July 2009
- First meeting (constitutive session) of the Seventh Parliament.
- Jerzy Buzek is elected as President of the European Parliament.
- Vice-presidents elections.
- 17 January 2012
- Martin Schulz is elected as President of the European Parliament.
Activity
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Source | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reports | [1] | ||||||
Resolutions and positions | [2] | ||||||
Parliamentary questions | [3] | ||||||
Written declarations | [4] |
Major resolutions and positions
Resolution/position number | Procedure number | Notes |
---|---|---|
Committees
Summary
Type | Number | Sources | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Standing committee | [5] | ||
Temporary committee | [6] | ||
Committee of enquiry | [7] |
Temporary committees
Code | Committee | Report | Sources |
---|---|---|---|
Committees of enquiry
Code | Committee | Report | Sources |
---|---|---|---|
Delegations
Type | Number | Sources |
---|---|---|
Europe delegations | [8] | |
Non-Europe delegations | [9] | |
Ad hoc delegations | [10] |
Political groups
- See membership below for details of size
Group name | Acronym | Seats | Percent | Chairs | Vice-Presidents | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
European People's Party
|
EPP | 265 | 36% | Joseph Daul | 5 | |
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | S&D | 184 | 25% | Martin Schulz | 5 | |
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group
|
ALDE | 84 | 11.4% | Guy Verhofstadt | 2 | |
The Greens–European Free Alliance
|
GREENS/EFA | 55 | 7.5% | Rebecca Harms Daniel Cohn-Bendit |
1 | |
European Conservatives and Reformists | ECR | 54 | 7.3% | Michał Kamiński | 0[nb 3] | |
European United Left–Nordic Green Left
|
GUE-NGL | 35 | 4.8% | Lothar Bisky | 0 | |
Europe of Freedom and Democracy | EFD | 32 | 4.3% | Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni |
0 | |
Non-Inscrits[nb 4] | NA | 27 | 3.7% | --- | 1[nb 5] |
Members in groups by country
Political group[1] Country |
EPP
|
S&D | ALDE
|
Greens/EFA
|
ECR | GUE-NGL
|
EFD | NI | MEPs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Austria | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | ||||
Belgium | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 22 | ||
Bulgaria | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | ||||
Cyprus | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||
Czech Republic | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 22 | ||||
Denmark | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | ||
Estonia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Finland | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | |||
France | 29 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 72 | |
Germany | 42 | 23 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 99 | |||
Greece | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 22 | |||
Hungary | 14 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 22 | ||||
Ireland | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | ||||
Italy | 35 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 72 | ||||
Latvia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
Lithuania | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | |||
Luxembourg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Malta | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
Poland | 28 | 7 | 15 | 50 | |||||
Portugal | 10 | 7 | 5 | 22 | |||||
Romania | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 33 | ||||
Slovakia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | ||||
Slovenia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||||
Spain | 23 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||
Sweden | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 18 | |||
United Kingdom | 13 | 11 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 72 | |
Total | 265 | 184 | 84 | 55 | 54 | 35 | 32 | 27 | 736 |
Leadership
Presidents
Term | President (or candidate) |
Group | State | Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
14 July 2009 – 17 January 2012[2] | Jerzy Buzek | EPP
|
Poland | 555 | |
Eva-Britt Svensson | GUE-NGL
|
Sweden | 89 | ||
17 January 2012– 17 April 2014[3] | Martin Schulz | PES | Germany | 387 | |
Nirj Deva | ECR | United Kingdom | 142 | ||
Diana Wallis | ALDE
|
United Kingdom | 141 |
Vice-Presidents
Group | Vice-President (or candidate) |
State | Votes in: | Pick | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | ||||
EPP | Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou | Greece | 355 | --- | --- | |
Roberta Angelilli | Italy | 277 | 266 | 274 | ||
Alejo Vidal-Quadras
|
Spain | 332 | 303 | 308 | ||
Pál Schmitt | Hungary | 266 | 239 | 257 | ||
Rainer Wieland | Germany | 267 | 235 | 237 | ||
S&D | Giovanni Pittella
|
Italy | 360 | --- | --- | |
Stavros Lambrinidis | Greece | 348 | --- | --- | ||
Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez
|
Spain | 330 | 292 | 327 | ||
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt | Germany | 299 | 288 | 287 | ||
Libor Rouček | Czech Republic | 284 | 276 | 278 | ||
ALDE | Diana Wallis | UK | 303 | 274 | 272 | |
Silvana Koch-Mehrin | Germany | 148 | 141 | 186 | ||
ECR | Michał Kamiński | Poland | 194 | 175 | 174 | |
Edward McMillan-Scott (non-attached)[nb 6] | UK | 237 | 242 | 244 | ||
GREENS/EFA | Isabelle Durant | Belgium | 268 | 259 | 276 |
Quaestors
Group | Quaestor (or candidate) |
State | Votes in: | Pick | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | ||||
EPP | Jim Higgins | Ireland | 352 | --- | --- | |
Astrid Lulling | Luxembourg | 322 | 327 | 306 | ||
Ria Oomen-Ruijten | Netherlands | 161 | 187 | 186 | ||
S&D | Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg | Poland | 398 | --- | --- | |
ALDE | Bill Newton Dunn | UK | 164 | 202 | 208 | |
ECR | James Nicholson | UK | 171 | 172 | 176 | |
GUE-NGL | Jiří Maštálka | Czech Republic | 206 | 283 | 293 | |
EFD | Francesco Speroni | Italy | 145 | 130 | 131 |
Membership
After the 2009 election, the members formed seven groups with around 26 independent members, mainly from the far right which failed to unify into a political group. With the Treaty of Lisbon not in force in time for the elections, the national distribution followed the rules of the Treaty of Nice which necessitated a reduction to 736 members. Extra members will join the chamber if Lisbon comes into force.[4]
The seventh parliament ended with a total of 766 MEPs (including Croatia) and was slimmed down to 751 at the start of the eight parliament.
For the seventh parliament, the number of women increased from 31% to 35% (the highest to date, from 16% in 1979) with increases in most countries. The largest percentage was in Sweden, with 56% of MEPs women, followed by Estonia with 50%. The lowest was Malta with no women members at all, followed by the Czech Republic with 18%, down from 21%.[5]
From inauguration, the youngest member was
Group | Seats | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inauguration | 5 March 2010 | ||
European People's Party | 265 | 265 | |
Socialists and Democrats | 184 | 184 | |
Liberals and Democrats | 84 | 85 3 | |
Greens/European Free Alliance | 55 | 55 | |
Conservatives and Reformists | 55 | 54 1 | |
European United Left – Nordic Green Left | 35 | 35 | |
Europe of Freedom and Democracy | 32 | 30 2,4 | |
Non-attached | 26 | 28 |
1 Edward McMillan-Scott was expelled from the Conservative Party on 15 September 2009;[9]
2 Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from the UK Independence Party on 4 March 2010.[10]
3 Edward McMillan-Scott joined Liberal Democrats on 12 March 2010.[11]
4 Mike Nattrass left UK Independence Party on 23 June 2010.[12]
Secretariat
Office | Post | Name | Source |
---|---|---|---|
Office of the Secretary-General | Secretary-General of the European Parliament | Klaus Welle | [11] |
Legal Service | Jurisconsult of the European Parliament | Christian Pennera | [12] |
Directorate-General for the Presidency | Director-General | Francesca Ratti | [13] |
Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union | Director-General | Riccardo Ribera d'Alcala | [14] |
Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union | Director-General | Luis Marco Aguiriano Nalda |
[15] |
Directorate-General for Communication | Director-General | Juana Lahousse-Juarez | [16] |
Directorate-General for Personnel | Director-General | Yves Quittin | [17] |
Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics | Director-General | Constantin Stratigakis | [18] |
Directorate-General for Translation | Director-General | ? | [19] |
Directorate-General for Interpretation and Conferences | Director-General | ? | [20] |
Directorate-General for Finance | Director-General | ? | [21] |
See also
Elections
Membership lists
Notes
- Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Niceand all preceding amending treaties.
- ^ The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon and all preceding amending treaties.
- ^ Edward MacMillan-Scott, standing in opposition to the policy of the ECR and his national party, the Conservatives, was expelled from the group.
- ^ Independents, not a group
- ^ After the election ECR expelled McMillan-Scott.
- ^ After the election ECR threw McMillan-Scott away.
References
- ^ "Results of the 2009 European Elections". TNS opinion in collaboration with the European Parliament. 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ "Jerzy Buzek elected President of the European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Archived from the original on 22 July 2009.
- ^ "Martin Schulz elected President of the European Parliament - News - European Parliament". 17 January 2012.
- ^ "European elections 2009 – Thursday 4 June 2009 72 MEPs to be elected in the United Kingdom". European Parliament website. 16 December 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ "Briefing special edition – European Parliament constituent plenary sitting – Strasbourg 14–16 July 2009". European Parliament website. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ "Briefing special edition – European Parliament constituent plenary sitting – Strasbourg 14–16 July 2009". European Parliament website. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ Mahony, Honor (6 May 2009). "MEPs stop Le Pen from chairing European Parliament session". EUobserver. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ "Your MEPs: By country and political group". Retrieved 5 March 2010.
- ^ "Conservatives expel defiant MEP". BBC News. 16 September 2009.
- ^ "Rebel Euro MP Nikki Sinclaire expelled by UKIP". BBC News. 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Ex-Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott joins Lib Dems". BBC News. 13 July 2010.
- ^ "UKIP MEP leaves "eurofriendly" EFD Group". NewEurope. 13 July 2010.