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The European Parliament ... to each state according to population and the maximum number of members is ... is the most multilingual parliament in the world ...
European Union: European Parliament [1] Lower: 5 Open and closed list proportional representation Single transferable vote (in the Republic of Ireland and Malta) 705 667,761 20,983 Council of the European Union [2] [note 1] (informally known as the Council of Ministers) Upper: N/A Indirect (members of national governments) 27 ~ ~ Mercosur ...
The apportionment of seats in the European Parliament between European Union member states uses a principle of degressive proportionality; those with larger population have more Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) but a higher population per MEP. The exact apportionment is specified by negotiated treaty.
The 2009 European Parliament election was conducted under the rules included in the Nice Treaty which provided for a maximum number of 736, although that figure had been breached on the accession of new members to the EU, these states being allowed parliamentary representation without a corresponding reduction in the number of MEPs allotted to ...
In coordination with member state national governments, Eurostat releases 1 January member state population figures every July; below are the 1 January 2024 data released in July 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Country
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament serving in the ninth term (2019–2024). It is sorted by list position or in cases of multiple constituencies, an English perception of surname treating all variations of de/di/do, van/von, Ó/Ní/Uí, and so forth as part of the collation key, even if this is not the normal practice in a member's own country.
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]