European Parliament – who is who
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European Parliament – who is who
Maarja LattikForm 11
2012
I’m going to talk about ...
• What is European Parliament?• The Presidents• Political groups in European Parliament• Estonians in European Parliament• Vice Presidents• Quaestors
What is European Parliament?
• Directly - elected EU body
• One of the largest democratic assemblies in the world
• 754 members• Members are elected
once in every five year
The Presidents
• First President was Paul Henri Spaak
• From Belgium• Now the President of
European Parliament is Martin Schulz
• He was elected on 17 January 2012
Political groups on European Parliament
• Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) • Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and
Democrats in the European Parliament • Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe• European Conservatives and Reformists Group • Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance • Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic
Green Left • Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group
Estonians in European ParliamentName Party in Estonia Party in EU
Tunne Kelam Union of Pro Patria and Res Public
European People's Party
Kristiina Ojuland Estonian Reform Party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Siiri Oviir Estonian Centre Party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Ivari Padar Social Democratic Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Vilja Savisaar-Toomast Estonian Centre Party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Indrek Tarand Independent The Greens–European Free Alliance
Vice Presidents
• There are 14 Vice Presidents• They chair debates when the president is not in
the chamber
Quaestors
• There are 5 Quaestors• Astrid Lulling- Luxembourg• Jim Higgins- Ireland• Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg- Poland• Boguslaw Liberadzki- Poland• Jiri Maštalka- Czech Republic
To sum up
European Parliament is very important to European Union and we got a lot of new
information about it.
References
• http://www.europarl.europa.eu/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parl
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Thank you!