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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