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European Parliament

The European Parliament (which is one of the legislative parts of the EU) is located in Strasbourg. It represents the EU-citizens and is directly elected by them since 1979 every five years. It has 732 members from all 25 EU countries.

 

Member state

Seats

 

Member state

Seats

 Germany

99

 

 Denmark

14

 France

78

 

 Finland

14

 United Kingdom1

78

 

 Slovakia

14

 Italy

78

 

 Ireland

13

 Spain

54

 

 Lithuania

13

 Poland

54

 

 Latvia

9

 Netherlands

27

 

 Slovenia

7

 Belgium

24

 

 Cyprus

6

 Czech Republic

24

 

 Estonia

6

 Greece

24

 

 Luxembourg

6

 Hungary

24

 

 Malta

5

 Portugal

24

 

Observers

Seats

 Sweden

19

 

 Romania

35

 Austria

18

 

 Bulgaria

18

1. Includes Gibraltar, but not any other BOT or Crown dependency

 

 

The European Parliament has three main tasks:

1: Guarantee the democratic legitimacy of European law.

2: Control in particular over the European Commission and ability to agree or to disagree to nomination of commissioners. It also has the rigth to reprove the Commission as a whole.

3: Observation of the EU budget together with the Council of the European Union and therefore possibility to influence EU spending.


EU`s Northern Dimension

European Movement