# Eighth European Parliament

The eighth European Parliament was elected in the 2014 elections and lasted until the 2019 elections.

## Major events

* 22–25 May 2014
** Elections to the Eighth Parliament.
* 1 July 2014
** First meeting (constitutive session) of the Eighth Parliament.
** Martin Schulz is elected as President of the European Parliament.
** Vice-presidents elections.
* 17 January 2017
** Antonio Tajani is elected as President of the European Parliament.
* 18 January 2017
** Vice-presidents elections.

## Activity

* Reports
* Resolutions and positions
* Parliamentary questions
* Written declarations

## Major resolutions and positions

| Resolution/position number | Procedure number | Notes |

## Committees
### Summary

* Type
* Standing committee
* Temporary committee
* Committee of enquiry

### Temporary committees

| Code | Committee | Report | Sources |

### Committees of enquiry

| Code | Committee | Report | Sources |

## Delegations

* Type
* Europe delegations
* Non-Europe delegations
* Ad-hoc delegations

## Political groups

| Group | Group | Parties | Leader(s) | Est. | MEPs |
| | European People's Party (EPP) | European People's Party (EPP) +1 unaffiliated national party +4 independent politicians | Manfred Weber | 2009 | 216 |
| | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) | Party of European Socialists (PES) +3 unaffiliated national parties | Gianni Pittella | 2009 | 185 |
| | European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) | Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) + 1 unaffiliated national party + 2 independent politicians | Syed Kamall | 2009 | 77 |
| | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) European Democratic Party (EDP) + 5 unaffiliated national parties | Guy Verhofstadt | 2004 | 69 |
| | European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE-NGL) | Party of the European Left (PEL) European Anti-Capitalist Left (EACL) Nordic Green Left Alliance (NGLA) Maintenant le Peuple (MLP) + 10 unaffiliated national parties | Gabi Zimmer | 1995 | 52 |
| | Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens–EFA) | European Green Party (EGP) European Free Alliance (EFA) + 3 unaffiliated national parties + 2 independent politicians | Rebecca Harms Philippe Lamberts | 1999 | 52 |
| | Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) | Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) + 1 unaffiliated national party + 1 independent politician | Nigel Farage | 2014 | 42 |
| | Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) | European Alliance for Freedom (EAF) Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF) + 2 unaffiliated national parties + 2 independent politicians | Marine Le Pen Marcel de Graaff | 2015 | 36 |
| | Non-Inscrits (NI) | Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties (INITIATIVE) +3 unaffiliated national parties +4 independent politicians | N/A | N/A | 20 |
| Source for MEPs: Seats by Member State | Source for MEPs: Seats by Member State | Source for MEPs: Seats by Member State | Total | Total | 749 |

### Members in groups by country

| Political groupCountry | EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE-NGL | Greens-EFA | EFDD | ENF | NI | MEPs |
| Austria | 5 | 5 | | 1 | | 3 | | 4 | | 18 |
| Belgium | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | | 2 | | 1 | | 21 |
| Bulgaria | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | | | | | | 17 |
| Croatia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | | 11 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 2 | | | | | 6 |
| Czech Republic | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | | 1 | | | 21 |
| Denmark | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | | | | 13 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1 | | 3 | | 1 | | | | 6 |
| Finland | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | | | | 13 |
| France | 20 | 13 | | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 3 | 74 |
| Germany | 34 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 96 |
| Greece | 5 | 4 | 1 | | 6 | | | | 5 | 21 |
| Hungary | 12 | 4 | | | | 2 | | | 3 | 21 |
| Ireland | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | | | | | 11 |
| Italy | 15 | 31 | 2 | | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | | 73 |
| Latvia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | | 8 |
| Lithuania | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1 | 1 | | | 11 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | | | 6 |
| Malta | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | 6 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | | 4 | | 26 |
| Poland | 22 | 5 | 19 | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 51 |
| Portugal | 8 | 8 | | 1 | 4 | | | | | 21 |
| Romania | 13 | 14 | 1 | 3 | | | | 1 | | 32 |
| Slovakia | 6 | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | 13 |
| Slovenia | 5 | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | | | 8 |
| Spain | 17 | 14 | | 8 | 11 | 4 | | | | 54 |
| Sweden | 4 | 6 | | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | | | 20 |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 73 |
| Total | 219 | 188 | 71 | 68 | 51 | 52 | 44 | 36 | 20 | 751 |

## Leadership
### Presidents

| Term | President (or candidate) | Group | State | Votes |
| 1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017 | Martin Schulz | PES | Germany | 409 |
| 1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017 | Sajjad Karim | ECR | United Kingdom | 101 |
| 1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017 | Pablo Iglesias Turrión | GUE-NGL | Spain | 51 |
| 1 July 2014 – 17 January 2017 | Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | Austria | 51 |
| Term | President (or candidate) | Group | Group | State | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes |
| Term | President (or candidate) | Group | Group | State | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | 4th round |
| 17 January 2017 – | Antonio Tajani | | EPP | Italy | 274 | 287 | 291 | 351 |
| 17 January 2017 – | Gianni Pittella | | S&D | Italy | 183 | 200 | 199 | 282 |
| 17 January 2017 – | Helga Stevens | | ECR | Belgium | 77 | 66 | 58 | |
| 17 January 2017 – | Jean Lambert | | Greens–EFA | United Kingdom | 56 | 51 | 53 | |
| 17 January 2017 – | Eleonora Forenza | | GUE/NGL | Italy | 50 | 42 | 45 | |
| 17 January 2017 – | Laurențiu Rebega | | ENF | Romania | 43 | 45 | 44 | |

### Vice-Presidents

| | Members | Group | State | Votes |
| 1 | Antonio Tajani | EPP | Italy | 452, Round 1 |
| 2 | Mairead McGuinness | EPP | Ireland | 441, Round 1 |
| 3 | Rainer Wieland | EPP | Germany | 437, Round 1 |
| 4 | Ramón Luis Valcárcel | EPP | Spain | 406, Round 1 |
| 5 | Ildikó Pelczné Gáll | EPP | Hungary | 400, Round 1 |
| 6 | Adina Vălean | EPP | Romania | 394, Round 1 |
| 7 | Corina Crețu | S&D | Romania | 406, Round 2 |
| 8 | Sylvie Guillaume | S&D | France | 406, Round 2 |
| 9 | David Sassoli | S&D | Italy | 394, Round 2 |
| 10 | Olli Rehn | ALDE | Finland | 377, Round 3 |
| 11 | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | ALDE | Germany | 365, Round 3 |
| 12 | Ulrike Lunacek | Greens/EFA | Austria | 319, Round 3 |
| 13 | Dimitrios Papadimoulis | GUE/NGL | Greece | 302, Round 3 |
| 14 | Ryszard Czarnecki | ECR | Poland | 284, Round 3 |

### Quaestors

| Name | Country | Party | Group |
| Élisabeth Morin | France | Union for a Popular Movement | EPP |
| Bogusław Liberadzki | Poland | Democratic Left Alliance | S&D |
| Catherine Bearder | United Kingdom | Liberal Democrats | ALDE |
| Andrey Kovatchev | Bulgaria | GERB | EPP |
| Karol Karski | Poland | Law and Justice | ECR |

## Membership

After the 2014 election, the members formed seven groups with 52 independent members, mainly MEPs against the Union who failed to unify into a political group.

### Apportionment

| State | Seats | State | Seats | State | Seats | State | Seats |
| Germany | 96 | Netherlands | 26 | Austria | 18 | Lithuania | 11 |
| France | 74 | Belgium | 21 | Bulgaria | 17 | Latvia | 8 |
| Italy | 73 | Czech Republic | 21 | Denmark | 13 | Slovenia | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 73 | Greece | 21 | Finland | 13 | Cyprus | 6 |
| Spain | 54 | Hungary | 21 | Slovakia | 13 | Estonia | 6 |
| Poland | 51 | Portugal | 21 | Croatia | 11 | Luxembourg | 6 |
| Romania | 32 | Sweden | 20 | Ireland | 11 | Malta | 6 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 751 |