Eighth European Parliament Explained

Number:	8th
Previous:	Seventh
Next:	Ninth
Start:	1 July 2014
End:	18 April 2019
President Half One:	Martin Schulz
President Half Two:	Antonio Tajani
Commission:	Juncker
Meps:	751
Election:	May 2014 (Union)
Treaty:	Treaty of Lisbon^[1]

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

Major events

• 22–25 May 2014
  • Elections to the Eighth Parliament.
• 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
Reports							http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/plenary/reports/search.do?language=EN
Resolutions and positions							http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/plenary/ta/search.do?language=EN
Parliamentary questions							http://www.europarl.europa.eu/QP-WEB/application/search.do
Written declarations							http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/plenary/writtenDecl/wdSides.do?language=EN

Committees

Summary

Type	Number	Sources	Notes
Standing committee		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/committeesList.do?language=EN
Temporary committee		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/archives/staticDisplay.do?language=EN&id=156
Committee of enquiry		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/archives/staticDisplay.do?language=EN&id=157

Committees of enquiry

Delegations

Type	Number	Sources
Europe delegations		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/delegations/delegationsEUList.do?language=EN
Non-Europe delegations		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/delegations/delegationsNEUList.do?language=EN
Ad-hoc delegations		http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/delegations/staticDisplay.do?language=EN&id=161

Political groups

Members in groups by country

Political group^[2] Country	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	EPP	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	S&D	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	ECR	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	ALDE	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	GUE-NGL	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	Greens-EFA	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	EFDD	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	ENF	bgcolor= style="margin:auto;"	NI	MEPs	Vacant
	bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=
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
	bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=		bgcolor=
Total	bgcolor= align="center"	219	bgcolor= align="center"	188	bgcolor= align="center"	71	bgcolor= align="center"	68	bgcolor= align="center"	51	bgcolor= align="center"	52	bgcolor= align="center"	44	bgcolor= align="center"	36	bgcolor= align="center"	20	751

Leadership

Presidents

Term	President (or candidate)	Group		State	Votes
1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017^[3]	Martin Schulz		PES	Germany	409
	Sajjad Karim		ECR	United Kingdom	101
	Pablo Iglesias Turrión		GUE-NGL	Spain	51
	Ulrike Lunacek		Greens/EFA	Austria	51

Term	President (or candidate)	Group	State	Votes
		1st round		2nd round	3rd round	4th round
17 January 2017 –	Antonio Tajani	bgcolor=		EPP	Italy	274	287	291	351
	Gianni Pittella	bgcolor=		S&D	Italy	183	200	199	282
	Helga Stevens	bgcolor=		ECR	Belgium	77	66	58
	Jean Lambert	bgcolor=		Greens–EFA	United Kingdom	56	51	53
	Eleonora Forenza	bgcolor=		GUE/NGL	Italy	50	42	45
	Laurențiu Rebega	bgcolor=		ENF	Romania	43	45	44

Vice-Presidents

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

Quaestors

Name	Country	Party	Group
Élisabeth Morin		Union for a Popular Movement	EPP
Bogusław Liberadzki		Democratic Left Alliance	S&D
Catherine Bearder		Liberal Democrats	ALDE
Andrey Kovatchev		GERB	EPP
Karol Karski		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
	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: Secretariat of the European Parliament.

See also

Membership lists

Notes

1. The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon and all preceding amending treaties.
2. Web site: MEPs by Member State and political group. European Parliament . 1 July 2014 . 15 July 2015.
3. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140630IPR51020/html/Martin-Schulz-re-elected-President-of-the-European-Parliament Martin Schulz re-elected President of the European Parliament

External links

• European Parliament