European Parliament – who is who

1. European Parliament – who is who Maarja Lattik Form 11 2012

2. I’m going to talk about ... • What is European Parliament? • The Presidents • Political groupsinEuropean Parliament • Estonians in European Parliament • Vice Presidents • Quaestors

3. What is European Parliament? • Directly -elected EU body • Oneof the largest democratic assemblies in the world • 754 members • Members are elected once in every five year

4. 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

5. 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 • ConfederalGroup of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left • Europe of Freedom and DemocracyGroup

6. Estonians in European Parliament

7. Vice Presidents • There are 14 Vice Presidents • They chair debates when the president is not in the chamber

8. Quaestors • There are 5 Quaestors • Astrid Lulling- Luxembourg • Jim Higgins- Ireland • Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg- Poland • BoguslawLiberadzki- Poland • Jiri Maštalka- Czech Republic

9. To sum up European Parliament is very important to European Union and we got a lot of new information about it.

10. References • http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament • Book “European Parliament – who is who”

11. Thank you!