Seventh European Parliament

The seventh European Parliament was elected in the 2009 elections and lasted until the 2014 elections.

Major events GroupLeader(s) MEPs EPPJoseph Daul 274 S&D Hannes Swoboda 195 ALDE Guy Verhofstadt 85 Greens-EFA Daniel Cohn-BenditRebecca Harms 58 ECR Martin Callanan 56 GUE-NGL Gabi Zimmer 35 EFD Nigel FarageFrancesco Speroni 33 Non-Inscrits MEPs without group 30 Source: European Parliament

4–7 June 2009 Elections to the Seventh Parliament. 14 July 2009 First meeting (constitutive session) of the Seventh Parliament. Jerzy Buzek is elected as President of the European Parliament. Vice-presidents elections. 17 January 2012 Martin Schulz is elected as President of the European Parliament.

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Major resolutions and positions

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Committees

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Delegations

TypeNumberSourcesEurope delegationsNon-Europe delegationsAd hoc delegations

Political groups

See membership below for details of size Group nameAcronymSeatsPercentChairsVice-presidents European People's PartyEPP26536% Joseph Daul5 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and DemocratsS&D18425% Martin Schulz5 Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe GroupALDE8411.4% Guy Verhofstadt2 The Greens–European Free AllianceGREENS/EFA557.5% Rebecca Harms Daniel Cohn-Bendit1 European Conservatives and ReformistsECR547.3% Michał Kamiński0Edward MacMillan-Scott, standing in opposition to the policy of the ECR and his national party, the Conservatives, was expelled from the group. European United Left–Nordic Green LeftGUE-NGL354.8% Lothar Bisky0 Europe of Freedom and DemocracyEFD324.3% Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni0 Non-InscritsIndependents, not a groupNA273.7% ---1After the election ECR expelled McMillan-Scott.

Members in groups by country Political groupCountryEPPS&DALDEGreens/EFAECRGUE-NGLEFDNIMEPsAustria6423 17Belgium55541222Bulgaria64 5217Cyprus2226Czech Republic279422Denmark 1 4 3 2 1 2 13Estonia 1 1 3 16Finland4242113France291461451372Germany422312148 99Greece8813222Hungary1441322Ireland4 34112Italy35217972Latvia3111118Lithuania4321212Luxembourg31116Malta235Netherlands5363121425Poland2871550Portugal107522Romania14115333Slovakia651113Slovenia3227Spain2321221150Sweden 5 5 4 3 118United Kingdom 13 11 5 25 1 13472Total265184845554353227736

Leadership

Presidents

TermPresident(or candidate)GroupStateVotes14 July 2009 – 17 January 2012Jerzy Buzek EPP Poland555Eva-Britt Svensson GUE-NGL Sweden8917 January 2012– 17 April 2014Martin Schulz PES Germany387Nirj Deva ECR United Kingdom142Diana Wallis ALDE United Kingdom141

Vice-Presidents

GroupVice-president(or candidate)StateVotes in:Pick1st round2nd round3rd roundEPPRodi Kratsa-TsagaropoulouGreece355 --- ---Roberta Angelilli Italy277266274Alejo Vidal-Quadras Spain332303308Pál Schmitt Hungary266239257Rainer Wieland Germany267235237S&DGiovanni Pittella Italy360 --- ---Stavros LambrinidisGreece348 --- ---Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez Spain330292327Dagmar Roth-Behrendt Germany299288287Libor Rouček Czech Republic284276278ALDEDiana Wallis UK303274272Silvana Koch-Mehrin Germany148141186ECRMichał Kamiński Poland194175174Edward McMillan-Scott (non-attached)After the election ECR threw McMillan-Scott away. UK237242244GREENS/EFAIsabelle Durant Belgium268259276

Quaestors

GroupQuaestor(or candidate)StateVotes in:Pick1st round2nd round3rd roundEPPJim Higgins Ireland352 --- ---Astrid Lulling Luxembourg322327306Ria Oomen-Ruijten Netherlands161187186S&DLidia Geringer de Oedenberg Poland398 --- ---ALDEBill Newton Dunn UK164202208ECRJames Nicholson UK171172176GUE-NGLJiří Maštálka Czech Republic206283293EFDFrancesco Speroni Italy145130131

Membership

After the 2009 election, the members formed seven groups with around 26 independent members, mainly from the far right which failed to unify into a political group. With the Treaty of Lisbon not in force in time for the elections, the national distribution followed the rules of the Treaty of Nice which necessitated a reduction to 736 members. Extra members will join the chamber if Lisbon comes into force.

The seventh parliament ended with a total of 766 MEPs (including Croatia) and was slimmed down to 751 at the start of the eight parliament.

For the seventh parliament, the number of women increased from 31% to 35% (the highest to date, from 16% in 1979) with increases in most countries. The largest percentage was in Sweden, with 56% of MEPs women, followed by Estonia with 50%. The lowest was Malta with no women members at all, followed by the Czech Republic with 18%, down from 21%.

From inauguration, the youngest member was Emilie Turunen of Denmark (born in 1984 making her 25) and the oldest member was Ciriaco de Mita of Italy (born 1928 making him 81). Usually the oldest member would preside over the chamber for the election of the Parliament's president. However, with concern that the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen would be the oldest member (rather than De Mita) the rules were changed to give this role to the outgoing President.

Groups GroupSeatsInauguration5 March 2010 European People's Party 265265 Socialists and Democrats184184 Liberals and Democrats 8485 Greens/European Free Alliance5555 Conservatives and Reformists 5554 European United Left – Nordic Green Left3535 Europe of Freedom and Democracy 3230 , Non-attached2628

Edward McMillan-Scott was expelled from the Conservative Party on 15 September 2009; Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from the UK Independence Party on 4 March 2010. Edward McMillan-Scott joined Liberal Democrats on 12 March 2010.

Mike Nattrass left UK Independence Party on 23 June 2010.

Apportionment StateSeatsStateSeats Germany 99 France 72 UK 72 Italy 72 Spain 50 Poland 50 Romania 33 Netherlands 25Greece 22 Portugal 22 Belgium 22 Czech Republic 22 Hungary 22 Sweden 18 Austria 17 Bulgaria 17 Denmark 13 Slovakia 13 Finland 13 Ireland 12 Lithuania 12 Latvia 8 Slovenia 7 Estonia 6 Cyprus 6 Luxembourg 6Malta 5Total 736

Secretariat

OfficePostNameSourceOffice of the Secretary-GeneralSecretary-General of the European Parliament Klaus WelleLegal ServiceJurisconsult of the European Parliament Christian PenneraDirectorate-General for the PresidencyDirector-General Francesca RattiDirectorate-General for Internal Policies of the UnionDirector-General Riccardo Ribera d'AlcalaDirectorate-General for External Policies of the UnionDirector-General Luis Marco Aguiriano NaldaDirectorate-General for CommunicationDirector-General Juana Lahousse-JuarezDirectorate-General for PersonnelDirector-General Yves QuittinDirectorate-General for Infrastructure and LogisticsDirector-General Constantin StratigakisDirectorate-General for TranslationDirector-General?Directorate-General for Interpretation and ConferencesDirector-General?Directorate-General for FinanceDirector-General?

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