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This paper, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, proposes a permanent system for the allocation of seats in the European Parliament that ensures transnational electoral equality even under the conditions of increasing degressivity of national quotas. This is achieved through a system of proportional completion using a new EU-wide seat quota.

This briefing, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, provides proposals for a formula/allocation system for the future distribution of EP seats among the member states that is in line with the distribution criteria as laid down in Article 14(2) TEU and allows for a distribution of seats that is objective, fair, durable and transparent.

During the October II plenary session, Parliament is expected to elect a new vice-president and a new quaestor. This vote is necessary as two Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to national parliaments in general elections, and must therefore vacate their seats in the European Parliament and their respective offices of vice-president and quaestor.

Committees of inquiry in the European Parliament

Analyse approfondie 26-05-2023

The European Parliament has been trying to strengthen its powers to conduct in-depth investigations into contraventions or maladministration in the implementation of European Union law since 2012, but has so far failed to gain the consent of the Commission or the Council for the modification of the legal framework applicable to its committees of inquiry. These powers were also discussed as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe. This paper updates a 2021 EPRS publication on the European Parliament's ...

In the context of ongoing investigations by Belgian authorities for alleged wrongdoing, on 13 December 2022 the European Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority to strip Eva Kaili of her post as vice-president. Parliament is expected to vote on the election of a new vice-president during its first plenary session of 2023.

Lord Henry Plumb est le seul Britannique à avoir été élu président du Parlement européen en près de 50 années d’adhésion du Royaume-Uni à l’Union européenne. Décédé le 15 avril 2022 à l’âge de 97 ans, le Parlement lui a rendu hommage lors de l’ouverture de la session plénière du 2 mai 2022, notamment en observant une minute de silence. La Présidente du Parlement, Roberta Metsola, s’est exprimée à cette occasion, évoquant un «grand Européen qui croyait passionnément au pouvoir de la politique de rendre ...

In May 2022, the European Parliament adopted a draft legislative act proposing to repeal the 1976 European Electoral Act and replace it with a new Council regulation on the election of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by direct universal suffrage. The aim is to harmonise a number of rules applicable to European elections, which are currently a combination between the common principles under the European Electoral Act and the different national rules implementing them. Harmonisation would ...

A commemorative bust of John Hume (1937-2020) – awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his tireless efforts to bring peace to his native Northern Ireland – was unveiled in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday 7 June 2022. Having served as an MEP from 1979 to 2004, John Hume understood the European Parliament as a forum in which to raise attention to the problems of Northern Ireland and build European support for resolving the conflict. And it was also – with a measure of seclusion ...

Cette note d’information publiée par le service de recherche du Parlement européen vise à fournir des faits et des chiffres clés sur le Parlement européen. Elle porte à la fois sur la législature actuelle (de juin 2019 à juin 2024) et sur les huit législatures précédentes, d’une durée de cinq ans chacune, qui se sont succédé depuis l’introduction des élections au suffrage direct en juin 1979. Vous trouverez dans les pages suivantes divers graphiques qui: • illustrent en détail la composition du Parlement ...

Lors de la séance plénière de janvier 2022, le Parlement européen devra élire son 31e président, qui siègera durant la seconde moitié de la législature en cours, jusqu’aux prochaines élections européennes. Le nouveau Parlement élira alors son président en juillet 2024. Le Président détient une fonction importante et de plus en plus visible sur la scène internationale et dans le cadre institutionnel de l’Union, qui reflète le rôle influent que joue le Parlement dans l’élaboration des politiques de ...