The eighth European Parliament was elected in the 2014 elections and lasted until the 2019 elections.
8th European Parliament | |
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1 July 2014 – 18 April 2019 | |
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President (1st Half) | Martin Schulz |
President (2nd Half) | Antonio Tajani |
Commission | Juncker |
Political groups | |
MEPs | 751 |
Elections | May 2014 (Union) |
Treaty of Lisbon[nb 1] | |
Major events
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/European_Parliament_2017.svg/250px-European_Parliament_2017.svg.png)
- 22–25 May 2014
- 1 July 2014
- First meeting (constitutive session) of the Eighth Parliament.
- Martin Schulz is elected as President of the European Parliament.
- Vice-presidents elections.
- 17 January 2017
- Antonio Tajani is elected as President of the European Parliament.
- 18 January 2017
- Vice-presidents elections.
Activity
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Source | |
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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 |
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Committees of enquiry
Code | Committee | Report | Sources |
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Delegations
Type | Number | Sources |
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Europe delegations | [8] | |
Non-Europe delegations | [9] | |
Ad-hoc delegations | [10] |
Political groups
Members in groups by country
Political group[1] Country | EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE-NGL | Greens-EFA | EFDD | ENF | NI | MEPs | Vacant |
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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 | |
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1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017[2] | Martin Schulz | PES | ![]() | 409 | |
Sajjad Karim | ECR | ![]() | 101 | ||
Pablo Iglesias Turrión | GUE-NGL | ![]() | 51 | ||
Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | ![]() | 51 |
Term | President (or candidate) | Group | State | Votes | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | 4th round | |||||
17 January 2017 – | Antonio Tajani | EPP | ![]() | 274 | 287 | 291 | 351 | |
Gianni Pittella | S&D | ![]() | 183 | 200 | 199 | 282 | ||
Helga Stevens | ECR | ![]() | 77 | 66 | 58 | |||
Jean Lambert | Greens–EFA | ![]() | 56 | 51 | 53 | |||
Eleonora Forenza | GUE/NGL | ![]() | 50 | 42 | 45 | |||
Laurențiu Rebega | ENF | ![]() | 43 | 45 | 44 |
Vice-Presidents
Members | Group | State | Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Antonio Tajani | EPP | ![]() | 452, Round 1 |
2 | Mairead McGuinness | EPP | ![]() | 441, Round 1 |
3 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | ![]() | 437, Round 1 |
4 | Ramón Luis Valcárcel | EPP | ![]() | 406, Round 1 |
5 | Ildikó Pelczné Gáll | EPP | ![]() | 400, Round 1 |
6 | Adina Vălean | EPP | ![]() | 394, Round 1 |
7 | Corina Crețu | S&D | ![]() | 406, Round 2 |
8 | Sylvie Guillaume | S&D | ![]() | 406, Round 2 |
9 | David Sassoli | S&D | ![]() | 394, Round 2 |
10 | Olli Rehn | ALDE | ![]() | 377, Round 3 |
11 | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | ALDE | ![]() | 365, Round 3 |
12 | Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | ![]() | 319, Round 3 |
13 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | ![]() | 302, Round 3 |
14 | Ryszard Czarnecki | ECR | ![]() | 284, Round 3 |
Quaestors
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.
State | Seats | State | Seats | State | Seats | State | Seats |
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![]() | 96 | ![]() | 26 | ![]() | 18 | ![]() | 11 |
![]() | 74 | ![]() | 21 | ![]() | 17 | ![]() | 8 |
![]() | 73 | ![]() | 21 | ![]() | 13 | ![]() | 8 |
![]() | 73 | ![]() | 21 | ![]() | 13 | ![]() | 6 |
![]() | 54 | ![]() | 21 | ![]() | 13 | ![]() | 6 |
![]() | 51 | ![]() | 21 | ![]() | 11 | ![]() | 6 |
![]() | 32 | ![]() | 20 | ![]() | 11 | ![]() | 6 |
Total | 751 |
Secretariat
See also
Elections
Membership lists
Notes
References
External links
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