8th_European_Parliament

8th European Parliament
8th European Parliament
1 July 2014 – 18 April 2019
President (1st Half)	Martin Schulz
President (2nd Half)	Antonio Tajani
Commission	Juncker
Political groups	EPP; S&D; ECR; ALDE; GUE-NGL; Greens/EFA; EFDD; ENF; NI;
MEPs	751
Elections	May 2014 (Union)
	Treaty of Lisbon
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Eighth European Parliament

Session of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019

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

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

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"MEPs by Member State and political group". European Parliament. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2015.

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Martin Schulz re-elected President of the European Parliament

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	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	Source
Reports
Resolutions and positions
Parliamentary questions
Written declarations

Type	Number	Sources	Notes
Standing committee
Temporary committee
Committee of enquiry

Type	Number	Sources
Europe delegations
Non-Europe delegations
Ad-hoc delegations

Group		Parties	Leader(s)	Est.	MEPs
	European People's Party (EPP)	European People's Party (EPP) +1 unaffiliated national party +4 independent politicians	Manfred Weber	2009	216
	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)	Party of European Socialists (PES) +3 unaffiliated national parties	Gianni Pittella	2009	185
	European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)	Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) + 1 unaffiliated national party + 2 independent politicians	Syed Kamall	2009	77
	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) European Democratic Party (EDP) + 5 unaffiliated national parties	Guy Verhofstadt	2004	69
	European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE-NGL)	Party of the European Left (PEL) European Anti-Capitalist Left (EACL) Nordic Green Left Alliance (NGLA) Maintenant le Peuple (MLP) + 10 unaffiliated national parties	Gabi Zimmer	1995	52
	Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens–EFA)	European Green Party (EGP) European Free Alliance (EFA) + 3 unaffiliated national parties + 2 independent politicians	Rebecca Harms Philippe Lamberts	1999	52
	Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD)	Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) + 1 unaffiliated national party + 1 independent politician	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	Marine Le Pen Marcel de Graaff	2015	36
	Non-Inscrits (NI)	Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties (INITIATIVE) +3 unaffiliated national parties +4 independent politicians	N/A		20
Source for MEPs: Seats by Member State			Total		749

Political group^[1] Country	EPP	S&D	ECR	ALDE	GUE-NGL	Greens-EFA	EFDD	ENF	NI	MEPs

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

8th_European_Parliament

Eighth European Parliament

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Major resolutions and positions

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Summary

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

	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

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

Resolution/position number	Procedure number	Notes