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The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission.
Europa is the official web portal of the European Union (EU), providing information on how the EU works, related news, events, publications and links to websites of institutions, agencies and other bodies.
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)
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament serving in the ninth term (2019–2024). It is sorted by list position or in cases of multiple constituencies, an English perception of surname treating all variations of de/di/do, van/von, Ó/Ní/Uí, and so forth as part of the collation key, even if this is not the normal practice in a member's own country.
The school of political thought that states that the competences of the European Union should be reduced or prevented from expanding further, is represented in the European Parliament by the eurosceptics. The first Eurosceptic group in the European Parliament was founded on 19 July 1994. [118]
The Parlamentarium, is the European Parliament's visitor centre, located in the Espace Léopold complex in Brussels, Belgium. [1] It was officially opened on 14 October 2011 by the former President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, and hosts a permanent exhibition that features numerous multimedia components that explain the workings of the European Parliament and other European Union ...
Before the Palace of Europe was built in 1977, the two institutions also shared the Maison de l'Europe ("House of Europe") from 1958. [47] The Maison was a provisory concrete building of purely functional architecture [48] [49] and was inaugurated in 1950. It stood where there is now a lawn leading up to the Palace of Europe. [50] [51]
The EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly is the inter-parliamentary forum in which members of the European Parliament and the national parliaments of Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia [1] participate and forge closer political and economic ties with the European Union.