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2 days ago · FILE - European Parliament members attend the last session before the upcoming European elections, on April 25, 2024 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. Some 400 million EU citizens go to the polls this weekend to elect the members of the European Parliament in one of the biggest global democratic events.
2 days ago · After the elections. One of the first tasks of a European Parliament is to elect the new president of the European Commission and appoint its 27 commissioners.While it is the European Council that ...
5 days ago · European Parliament, legislative assembly of the European Union (EU). Inaugurated in 1958 as the Common Assembly, the European Parliament originally consisted of representatives selected by the national parliaments of EU member countries.
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2 days ago · The parliament has for the past five years been governed by a three-group majority of the centre-right European People's Party, centre-left Socialists and Democrats and liberals of Renew Europe.
3 days ago · The European Parliament is the only EU institution to be elected by European citizens. It’s a real counterpower to the powerful EU’s executive arm, the European Commission.
4 days ago · European Parliament President Roberta Metsola — a center-right Christian Democrat from Malta — has been touring the EU to get out the vote, making a particular effort to woo youngsters to cast their ballots. She faces a grueling campaign in Malta, which is currently embroiled in a corruption scandal surrounding the governing Labor Party.
1 day ago · The 2024 European Parliament election is scheduled to be held from 6 to 9 June. [1] . This will be the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [2] [3] This election will also coincide with a number of other elections in some European Union member states .
