President of the European Parliament
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Acting EU Parliament President David Sassoli since July 3, 2019 |
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Strasbourg , France
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| Term of office | 2½ years |
| Chairman of | European Parliament |
| Head of | institutions subordinate to the European Parliament |
| Appointed | from the European Parliament |
| Deputy | First Vice President |
| website | europarl.europa.eu |
The President of the European Parliament , also often referred to as the EU Parliament President referred, directs the activities of the European Parliament and reporting to the Parliament institutions . David Sassoli has been acting President of the European Parliament since July 3, 2019 .
tasks
As President of Parliament , he chairs the plenary sessions and represents Parliament in all external matters, for example vis-à-vis other EU institutions or at international level. At the summits of the European Council , he reports to the Heads of State or Government on Parliament's positions.
Together with the Chairman of the Council of the EU , he signs the EU legal acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure before they are published in the Official Journal of the European Union ( Art. 297 TFEU ).
The tasks of the President of Parliament are regulated in detail in Article 20 of the European Parliament's Rules of Procedure.
Bureau
The President is assisted by a Bureau, also known as the Bureau . The Bureau is the authority responsible for Parliament's budget and administrative matters. It consists of the President, a total of fourteen Vice-Presidents and five Quaestors, who represent the interests of the parliamentarians as members. The members of the Bureau are elected from among the members of the European Parliament.
Conference of Presidents
The President of Parliament also chairs the Conference of Presidents , which consists of himself and the chairmen of the political groups in the European Parliament . In particular, the Conference of Presidents is responsible for setting the agenda for parliamentary sessions.
Election of the president
According to Article 14, Paragraph 4 of the EU Treaty, the President of Parliament is elected by Parliament from among its members. He needs an absolute majority of the votes cast. If this does not happen in the first election attempt, new candidates for the presidency can join in the second and third election attempts, but in the fourth election attempt only the two candidates of the third who have received the most votes can participate. The term of office of the President of Parliament as well as the other members of the Presidium is two and a half years, i.e. half a term of parliament.
Usually the two largest political groups in the European Parliament , namely the Group of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) each share two terms of office, so that in the first half of the legislative period one representative of the one and in the second half a representative of the other group heads Parliament.
The other members of the Presidium are also elected by the European Parliament from among its members, with the other political groups generally also having a say according to their size. In the first half of the 2009-2014 legislative period, however, the small Eurosceptic group Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) and, initially, the national conservative group European Conservatives and Reformists (EKR) were not represented in the Presidium; the left-wing GUE / NGL group did not have a vice-president, only a quaestor. ECR MP Edward McMillan-Scott , who had been elected Vice-President against the will of his group leader, was expelled from his group immediately afterwards and later joined the liberal group ALDE . In return, after the resignation of ALDE MP Silvana Koch-Mehrin as Vice President in July 2011, EKR member Giles Chichester was re- elected. When the new presidium was elected for the second half of the legislative period on January 18, 2012, members of all parliamentary groups with the exception of the EFD were elected, whereby the GUE / NGL was again represented by only one quaestor.
List of Presidents of the European Parliament
Members of the Presidium
David Sassoli is President of the European Parliament for the legislative period from 2019 . He has 14 deputies (vice-presidents).
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| Mairead McGuinness | EPP |
 Ireland
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| Pedro Silva Pereira | S&D |
 Portugal
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| Rainer Wieland | EPP |
 Germany
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| Katarina Barley | S&D |
Germany
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| Othmar Karas | EPP |
 Austria
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| Ewa Kopacz | EPP |
 Poland
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| Klára Dobrev | S&D |
 Hungary
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| Dita Charanzová | Renew Europe |
 Czech Republic
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| Nicola Beer | Renew Europe |
Germany
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| Lívia Járóka | EPP |
Hungary
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| Heidi Hautala | Greens / EFA |
 Finland
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| Marcel Kolaja | Greens / EFA |
Czech Republic
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| Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE-NGL |
 Greece
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| Fabio Massimo Castaldo | NI |
 Italy
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Former members of the Presidium
Antonio Tajani ( EPP ) was President of the European Parliament for the second half of the 2014 to 2019 legislative period . He had 14 deputies (vice presidents).
| Surname | fraction | Country of origin | Remarks |
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| Antonio Tajani | EPP |
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| Mairead McGuinness | EPP |
Ireland
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| Bogusław Liberadzki | S&D |
Poland
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| David-Maria Sassoli | S&D |
Italy
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| Rainer Wieland | EPP |
Germany
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| Sylvie Guillaume | S&D |
France
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| Ryszard Czarnecki | EKR |
Poland
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| Ramón Luis Valcárcel | EPP |
 Spain
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| Evelyne Gebhardt | S&D |
Germany
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| Pavel Telička | ALDE |
Czech Republic
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| Lívia Járóka | EPP |
Hungary
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Replacement for Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz |
| Ioan Mircea Paşcu | S&D |
 Romania
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| Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE-NGL |
Greece
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| Heidi Hautala | Greens / EFA |
Finland
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Replacement for Ulrike Lunacek |
| Fabio Massimo Castaldo | EFDD |
Italy
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Replacement for Alexander Graf Lambsdorff |
There are also five Quaestors.
| Surname | fraction | Country of origin |
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| Elisabeth Morin-Chartier | EPP |
France
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| Andrei Kovachev | EPP |
 Bulgaria
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| Vladimír Maňka | S&D |
 Slovakia
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| Catherine Bearder | ALDE |
 United Kingdom
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| Karol Karski | EKR |
Poland
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Web links
- President of the European Parliament - electoral procedure and duties, European Parliament website
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections-2014/de/bureau
- ↑ Article 20 of the Rules of Procedure on the homepage of the European Parliament.
- ↑ Article 14 of the Rules of Procedure on the homepage of the European Parliament.
- ↑ Article 17 of the Rules of Procedure on the homepage of the European Parliament.
- ↑ Fourteen Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament elected. July 4, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Directory of Members
- ↑ Directory of Members
- ↑ Directory of Members
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