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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 7, 2019 20:28:08 GMT
Romania changed candidate again. Now they propose Adina Valean or Siegfried Muresan. Ursula Van Whatever picked Valean because she is a woman. . There were rumours of portfolio swappings between Hungary and Romania too. Now it seems they are back to the previous assignments: Hungary with Enlargement and Romania with Transports. Hungary has a bad history when it comes to matters of enlargement... |
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Post by andrea on Nov 21, 2019 10:58:32 GMT
The Hungarian, Romanian and French choices got the approval by EU parliament selection committees
Breton and Valean were approved after first hearing. Hungary's Olivér Várhelyi was asked to reply to more questions. In the end he got through.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Dec 21, 2019 14:50:02 GMT
The Court of Justice of the European Union rules against Spain that Catalan Nationalist MEPs have Parliamentary Immunity from the day the election results were declared and are not required to take an oath of allegiance to the Spanish constitution to get immunity. They can therefore now take their seats in the European Parliament. Why are the MPs sworn in then? Just demonstrates once more, that its courts are the worst part of the EU. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Feb 1, 2020 2:10:58 GMT
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Post by WJ on Feb 1, 2020 3:07:46 GMT
Has anyone worked out which parties/blocs will get new MEPs? |
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Post by Tony Otim on Feb 1, 2020 8:56:50 GMT
Has anyone worked out which parties/blocs will get new MEPs? If you go back through the results summaries I did country by country starting on p.24 of this thread they say which parties get the extra seats - for example France is 1 for RN, 2 for LREM, 1 for EELV and 1 for PS. |
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Feb 1, 2020 9:07:37 GMT
Anyone reckon any staunch remainers will try and run a 'fantasy' European Elections for the UK in 2024? 
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Post by andrea on Feb 1, 2020 10:06:58 GMT
Has anyone worked out which parties/blocs will get new MEPs? France: 2 Macron, 1 Front National, 1 Socialist, 1 Green Italy: 1 Lega, 1 Forza Italia and 1 Brothers of Italy Spain: 1 Vox, 1 PP, 1 PS, 1 Junta for Catalunya, 1 Ciudadanos Poland: 1 Law and Justice Romania: 1 Social Democrat Netherlands: 1 VVD, 1 Green Forum Democracy, 1 Party for Freedom Sweden: 1 Green Austria: 1 Green Denmark: 1 Venstree (Liberals) Finland: 1 Green Slovakia: 1 Christian Democratic Movement Ireland: 1 FF, 1 FG Croatia: 1 Social Democrat1 Estonia: 1 Isamaa (Christian-democratic) The MEPs who officially took over today Alviina ALAMETSÄ (Finnish Greens) Barry ANDREWS (Fianna Fial) Deidre CLUNE (Fianna Gael) Sergio BERLATO (Brothers of Italy) Salvatore DE MEO (Forza Italia) Vincenzo SOFO (Northern League) Ilana CICUREL (Liste Renaissance) Sandro GOZI (Liste Renaissance) Claude GRUFFAT (Europe Ecologie) Jean-Lin LACAPELLE (Rassemblement national) Nora MEBAREK (Parti Socialiste) Jakop DALUNDE (Swedish Green) Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN (VOX) Gabriel MATO (Partido Popular) Clara PONSATÍ OBIOLS (Junts per Catalunya - Lliures per Europa) Marcos ROS SEMPERE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA (Ciudadanos – Partido de la Ciudadanía) Miriam LEXMANN (Slovakia Christian Democratic Movement) Victor NEGRESCU (Romania Social Democrats) Romana JERKOVIĆ (Croatian Social Democrats) Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL (Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti) Dominik TARCZYŃSKI (Poland Law and Justice) Riho TERRAS (Isamaa/Fatherland, Estonia) Austria and Netherlands have not officially named the in-coming members. |
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Post by AdminSTB on Feb 1, 2020 14:10:33 GMT
Anyone reckon any staunch remainers will try and run a 'fantasy' European Elections for the UK in 2024? 👽
It will now be possible to create a book: " A Complete History of European Parliamentary elections and referenda in the UK, 1975-2019", perhaps complete with notional results from the FPTP constituencies which existed for the first half of that period. And similar data for the two referenda. |
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Post by andrea on Feb 21, 2020 23:31:29 GMT
New Committee Chairs to replace departing British MEPs (Chris Davies and Lucy Nethsingha) Legal Affairs: Adrián Vázquez Lázara(Spain) Fisheries: Pierre Karleskind (France) Austria and Netherlands have not officially named the in-going members. Dutch new MEPs Bart GROOTHUIS (VVD) Marcel de GRAAFF (Party for Freedom) Dorien ROOKMAKER (elected from Forum for Democracy list but now joined the Groep Otten splinter) Austrian new MEP Thomas WAITZ (Greens) |
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Post by andrea on Sept 10, 2020 19:47:01 GMT
Two changes in the composition of the Parliament since February
Chris MacManus (Sinn Fein) replaced Matt Carthy. Carthy was elected as MP at the recent Irish elections
Manuela Ripa (Germany, Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei) replaced Klaus Buchner. 79 year old Buchner decided to retire (he served also in the 2014-19 term)
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Post by eurofighter! on Sept 11, 2020 7:09:50 GMT
The EU Commissioner is a political role. If it were appointing the Director-General the logic would hold. But that isn't done based on nationality. Its (supposed to be) meritocratic. A political appointment isn't. |
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Post by andrea on Nov 10, 2020 22:16:00 GMT
Some changes in the composition of the Parliament since September Petra De Sutter (Belgium, Greens) has been apponted to the new Belgian government. She has been replaced as MEP by Sara Matthieu. Mairead McGuiness (Ireland, Fine Gael) has been named EU commissioner. Colm Markey is supposed to replace her but he has not taken up office yet. Miriam Dalli (Malta, Labour) has moved to Maltese parliament. She has been repleced by Cyrus Engerer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Engerer |
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Post by andrea on Jan 14, 2021 23:31:35 GMT
Colm Markey (Fine Gael) has taken up his seat on 20 November.
In early November Clotilde Armand (Romania, Save Romania Union+ Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party joint list) resigned as MEP after beeing elected as mayor of Bucharest Sector 1. She has been repleced by Vlad Gheorghe. Both are from Save Romania Union party.
Cristian Ghinea (Romania, Save Romania Union+ Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party joint list, he is from Save Romania Union) resigned in December after being appointed to Romanian government. He has been replaced by Alin Mituta (Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party)
József Szajer (Hungary, Fidesz ) resigned on January 1st after being caught at an orgy in Bruxelles during the Covid lockdown. He has been replaced by Ernő Schaller-Baross.
January 2021 also saw the resignation of Kris Peeters (Belgium, Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams). He is set to become one of the vice-presidents of the European Investment Bank. No replacement appointed yet.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 15, 2021 0:04:15 GMT
January 2021 also saw the resignation of Kris Peeters (Belgium, Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams). He is set to become one of the vice-presidents of the European Investment Bank. No replacement appointed yet. Peeters has had quite the career. He was made a minister in Flanders before even being elected, and was minister-president within about a year of his first run for office. Then he was a federal minister and a MEP. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jan 15, 2021 6:46:50 GMT
January 2021 also saw the resignation of Kris Peeters (Belgium, Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams). He is set to become one of the vice-presidents of the European Investment Bank. No replacement appointed yet. Peeters has had quite the career. He was made a minister in Flanders before even being elected, and was minister-president within about a year of his first run for office. Then he was a federal minister and a MEP. This is Belgium though- elections are largely meaningless. |
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Post by maxque on Jan 15, 2021 16:13:52 GMT
Colm Markey (Fine Gael) has taken up his seat on 20 November. In early November Clotilde Armand (Romania, Save Romania Union+ Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party joint list) resigned as MEP after beeing elected as mayor of Bucharest Sector 1. She has been repleced by Vlad Gheorghe. Both are from Save Romania Union party. Cristian Ghinea (Romania, Save Romania Union+ Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party joint list, he is from Save Romania Union) resigned in December after being appointed to Romanian government. He has been replaced by Alin Mituta (Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party) József Szajer (Hungary, Fidesz ) resigned on January 1st after being caught at an orgy in Bruxelles during the Covid lockdown. He has been replaced by Ernő Schaller-Baross. January 2021 also saw the resignation of Kris Peeters (Belgium, Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams). He is set to become one of the vice-presidents of the European Investment Bank. No replacement appointed yet. Belgium elects replacements at the same time as MEPs. The first CD&V replacement is Tom Vandenkendelaere, already MEP from 2014 to 2019 as the replacement for Marianne Thiesen, European Commissionner. |
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Post by john07 on Jan 15, 2021 17:28:07 GMT
Don’t Germany qualify for any? |
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Post by relique on Jan 15, 2021 17:42:21 GMT
Don’t Germany qualify for any? They have been capped for quite some time now I believe. |
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Post by john07 on Jan 15, 2021 17:57:44 GMT
Don’t Germany qualify for any? They have been capped for quite some time now I believe. They should kept the East as a second delegation by fudging the reunification process! The USSR had the Ukraine and Belarus as separate seats in the United Nations in addition to their own seat. I suspect they wanted 15 seats but settled for three. |
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