Eighth European Parliament

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8th European Parliament
1 July 2014 – 18 April 2019
The logo of the European Parliament
President (1st Half)Martin Schulz
President (2nd Half)Antonio Tajani
CommissionJuncker
Political groups
MEPs751
ElectionsMay 2014 (Union)
Treaty of Lisbon[nb 1]

The eighth European Parliament was elected in the 2014 elections and lasted until the 2019 elections.

Major events

Activity

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 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

Group Parties Leader(s) Est. MEPs
European People's Party
(EPP)
Manfred Weber 2009 216
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)
Gianni Pittella 2009 185
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
Syed Kamall 2009 77
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Guy Verhofstadt 2004 69
European United Left–Nordic Green Left
(GUE-NGL)
Gabi Zimmer 1995 52
Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens–EFA)
1999 52
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD)
Nigel Farage 2014 42
Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF)
  • European Alliance for Freedom (EAF)
  • Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom
    (MENF)
  • + 2 unaffiliated national parties
  • + 2 independent politicians
2015 36
Non-Inscrits (NI)
N/A 20
Source for MEPs: Seats by Member State Total 749

Members in groups by country

Political group[1]
Country
EPP
S&D ECR
ALDE
GUE-NGL
Greens-EFA
EFDD ENF NI MEPs Vacant
Austria 5 5 1 3 4 18
Belgium 4 4 4 6 2 1 21
Bulgaria 7 4 2 4 17
Croatia 5 2 1 2 1 11
Cyprus 1 2 1 2 6
Czech Republic 7 4 2 4 3 1 21
Denmark 1 3 4 3 1 1 13
Estonia 1 1 3 1 6
Finland 3 2 2 4 1 1 13
France 20 13 7 4 6 1 20 3 74
Germany 34 27 6 4 8 13 1 1 2 96
Greece 5 4 1 6 5 21
Hungary 12 4 2 3 21
Ireland 4 1 1 1 4 11
Italy 15 31 2 3 1 15 6 73
Latvia 4 1 1 1 1 8
Lithuania 3 2 1 3 1 1 11
Luxembourg 3 1 1 1 6
Malta 3 3 6
Netherlands 5 3 2 7 3 2 4 26
Poland 22 5 19 1 2 2 51
Portugal 8 8 1 4 21
Romania 13 14 1 3 1 32
Slovakia 6 4 3 13
Slovenia 5 1 1 1 8
Spain 17 14 8 11 4 54
Sweden 4 6 3 1 4 2 20
United Kingdom 2 20 19 1 1 6 20 1 3 73
Total 219 188 71 68 51 52 44 36 20 751

Leadership

Presidents

Term President
(or candidate)
Group State Votes
1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017[2] Martin Schulz   PES Germany Germany 409
Sajjad Karim   ECR United Kingdom United Kingdom 101
Pablo Iglesias Turrión  
GUE-NGL
Spain Spain 51
Ulrike Lunacek  
Greens/EFA
Austria Austria 51
Term President
(or candidate)
Group State Votes
1st round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round
17 January 2017 – Antonio Tajani   EPP Italy Italy 274 287 291 351
Gianni Pittella   S&D Italy Italy 183 200 199 282
Helga Stevens   ECR Belgium Belgium 77 66 58
Jean Lambert   Greens–EFA United Kingdom United Kingdom 56 51 53
Eleonora Forenza  
GUE/NGL
Italy Italy 50 42 45
Laurențiu Rebega   ENF Romania Romania 43 45 44

Vice-Presidents

Members Group State Votes
1 Antonio Tajani
EPP
Italy Italy 452, Round 1
2 Mairead McGuinness
EPP
Republic of Ireland Ireland 441, Round 1
3 Rainer Wieland
EPP
Germany Germany 437, Round 1
4 Ramón Luis Valcárcel
EPP
Spain Spain 406, Round 1
5 Ildikó Pelczné Gáll
EPP
Hungary Hungary 400, Round 1
6
Adina Vălean
EPP
Romania Romania 394, Round 1
7 Corina Crețu S&D Romania Romania 406, Round 2
8 Sylvie Guillaume S&D France France 406, Round 2
9 David Sassoli S&D Italy Italy 394, Round 2
10 Olli Rehn ALDE Finland Finland 377, Round 3
11 Alexander Graf Lambsdorff ALDE Germany Germany 365, Round 3
12 Ulrike Lunacek
Greens/EFA
Austria Austria 319, Round 3
13 Dimitrios Papadimoulis
GUE/NGL
Greece Greece 302, Round 3
14 Ryszard Czarnecki ECR Poland Poland 284, Round 3

Quaestors

Name Country Party Group
Élisabeth Morin  France Union for a Popular Movement EPP
Bogusław Liberadzki  Poland Democratic Left Alliance S&D
Catherine Bearder  United Kingdom Liberal Democrats ALDE
Andrey Kovatchev  Bulgaria GERB EPP
Karol Karski  Poland Law and Justice ECR

Membership

After the 2014 election, the members formed seven groups with 52 independent members, mainly MEPs against the Union who failed to unify into a political group.

Apportionment
State Seats State Seats State Seats State Seats
 Germany 96  Netherlands 26  Austria 18  Lithuania 11
 France 74  Belgium 21  Bulgaria 17  Latvia 8
 Italy 73  Czech Republic 21  Denmark 13  Slovenia 8
 United Kingdom 73  Greece 21  Finland 13  Cyprus 6
 Spain 54  Hungary 21  Slovakia 13  Estonia 6
 Poland 51  Portugal 21  Croatia 11  Luxembourg 6
 Romania 32  Sweden 20  Ireland 11  Malta 6
Total 751

Secretariat

See also

Elections

Membership lists

Notes

  1. ^ The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon and all preceding amending treaties.

References

  1. ^ "MEPs by Member State and political group". European Parliament. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  2. ^ Martin Schulz re-elected President of the European Parliament

External links