List of members of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community, 2009–2014
Advisory members
Table:
Fraction
Name
Function

CSP

Denis Barth
Provincial Councillor in Liège

SP

Joseph Barth
Provincial Councillor in Liège

Ecolo

Marlene Bongartz-Kaut
Provincial Councillor in Liège

Ecolo

Monika Dethier-Neumann
Member of the Walloon Parliament

CSP

Mathieu Grosch
Member of the European Parliament

PFF

Kattrin Jadin
Federal Representative

PFF

Heinz Keul
Provincial Councillor in Liège

PFF

Balduin Lux
Provincial Councillor in Liège

CSP

Anne Marenne-Loiseau
Provincial Councillor in Liège

SP

Edmund Stoffels
Member of the Walloon Parliament

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Mathieu Jean Hubert Grosch ( born 14 September 1950 , in Eupen ) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the German-speaking Community of Belgium with the CSP-EVP , Member of the Bureau of the European People 's Party and sits on the European Parliament 's Committee on Transport and Tourism . He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development , a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Japan .
The European Parliament ( EP ) is the legislative branch of the European Union and one of its seven institutions . Together with the Council of the European Union , it adopts European legislation , normally on a proposal from the European Commission . The Parliament is composed of 705 members ( MEPs ) . The Parliament represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world ( after the Parliament of India ) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world ( 375 million eligible voters in 2009 ) . Since 1979 , it has been directly elected every five years by European Union citizens , using universal suffrage . Voter turnout for parliamentary elections has decreased at each election after 1979 until 2019 , when the voter turnout increased by 8 percentage points and went above 50% for the first time since 1994 . Voting age is 18 in all member states except Malta and Austria , where it is 16 , and Greece , where it is 17 . Although the European Parliament has legislative power , as does the Council , it does not formally possess legislative initiative ( which is the prerogative of the European Commission ) , as most national parliaments of European Union member states do . The Parliament is the first institution of the EU ( mentioned first in the treaties , having ceremonial precedence over all authority at the European level ) , and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council ( except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply ) . It likewise has equal control over the EU budget . Finally , the European Commission , the executive body of the EU ( it exercises executive powers , but no legislative ones other than legislative initiative ) , is accountable to Parliament . In particular , Parliament can decide whether or not to approve the European Council 's nominee for the President of the Commission , and it is further tasked with approving ( or rejecting ) the appointment of the Commission as a whole .
The Chamber of Representatives ( Dutch : Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers ( help·info ) , French : Chambre des représentants , German : Abgeordnetenkammer ) is one of the two chambers in the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium , the other being the Senate . It is considered to be the lower house of the Federal Parliament .