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There are no provisions in the EU Treaties or in secondary EU law on the procedure for deciding on the location of an EU agency. Article 341 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) refers only to the EU institutions. This legal vacuum has generated different practices over time and power struggles among the Member States. The most recent example of conflicting national interests was the case of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom ...

This document provides an update of the Review of European and National Elections, published in November 2014 by the Public Opinion Monitoring Unit of DG Communication. The Review was dedicated to the results of the European elections of May 2014 and to the history of 35 years of direct elections to the European Parliament since 1979, as well as to the different national elections. This update addresses the changes in the European Parliament since the first edition, notably the replacement of 14 ...

First published in May 2008, this latest Review of European and National Election Results, produced by the Public Opinion Monitoring Unit of DG Communications, contains detailed information about the May 2014 European elections, and looks back on 35 years of direct elections to the European Parliament since 1979. The opening chapters are dedicated to historic trends defining changes in the composition of the EP, political groups and gender balance among MEPs since 1979. They chart the Parliament’ ...

Size of Political Groups in the EP

At a Glance 29-05-2015

Our table shows the number of MEPs in each group, broken down by Member State, as well as the non-attached (NI) Members not in any group. The figures are supplied by our colleagues from the Public Opinion Monitoring Unit at DG Communication. This infographic updates an earlier edition, of 1 July 2014.

This Briefing, published by the European Parliamentary Research Service, is designed to provide key facts and figures about the European Parliament, both today and in previous terms since direct elections were introduced in June 1979. On the following pages you will find graphics of various kinds which: - detail the composition of the European Parliament now and in the past; - trace the increase in the number of parties represented in the Parliament and show the evolution of political groups; ...