Claim: The 1999-2004 European Parliament had twelve seats filled by the Party of European Socialists,  which is made up of national parties from member states of the European Union, along with the UK and Norway.
Evidence: The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social-democratic European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and the United Kingdom. Peter Bossu PES Philippe Busquin PES Claude Desama PES PES Anne Van Lancker PES Alexandros Baltas PES Petros Efthymiou PES Anna Karamanou PES Giorgos Katiforis PES Ioannis Koukiadis PES Minerva Melpomeni Malliori PES Emmanouil Mastorakis PES Ioannis Souladakis PES Dimitris Tsatsos PES Myrsini Zorba PES Proinsias De Rossa PES Robert Goebbels PES Jacques Poos PES Freddy Thielemans