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With twenty-four languages, the European Parliament is the most multilingual parliament in the world [134] and the biggest employer of interpreters in the world (employing 350 full-time and 400 freelancers when there is higher demand). [135]
The European Parliament will be divided into several political groups (as of 11 July 2024): European People's Party Group (EPP) Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Patriots for Europe (PfE) European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Renew Europe (Renew) Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA)
The President of the European Parliament, together with fourteen Vice Presidents and 5 Quaestors are chosen through the votes of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) serving a term lasting 2.5 years, with the option for re-election.
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in that its members (MEPs) organise themselves into ideological groups, rather than national cleavages . [ 1 ]
Originally, national members of Parliament (MPs) were appointed to the European Parliament (EP) as Member of the European Parliament (MEPs). In 1979 the first direct elections were held, however national MPs still tended to contest these leading to them holding a "dual mandate". As the work load of an MEP increased, the number of MEPs who were ...
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. [ 1 ] When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states ...
EuroparlTV's virtual character, "Blink", takes centre stage and explains European affairs to youngsters in the A-Z, Backstage and Eureka series. Since 2014, Young Parliament section is not produced anymore. Discover Parliament: explains, taking a step back, what Parliament stands for in the great European scheme of things.
In the 7th European Parliament, the EPP Group remained the largest parliamentary group with 275 MEPs. It is currently the only political group in the European parliament to fully represent its corresponding European political party, i.e. the European People's Party. The United Kingdom was the only member state to not be represented in the group ...