Keynote Address: Analysis of
the new European Parliament
and its impact on policy
Dr Ignasi Guardans, Partner, Brussels
Former Member of the European Parliament
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EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2014 - RESULTS
GUE/NGL
S&D
Greens/EFA
ALDE
EPP
ECR
EFD
NI
THE POLITICAL GROUPS
Group of the European People's Party (EPP)
• Chair: Manfred Weber (Germany). This is his third term in the EP. In the last
legislature he was a member of the constitutional affairs committee
• Seats: 221
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and
Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D)
• Chair: Martin Schulz (Germany). He has been an MEP for 20 years and
served as president of the European Parliament from 2012 until June this year
• Seats: 191
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
• Chair: Syed Kamall (UK). He joined the EP in 2005. In the previous term he
was a member of the economy committee
• Seats: 70
THE POLITICAL GROUPS
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
• Chair: Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium). The Belgian former prime minister chaired
the group during the last term too.
• Seats: 67
European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
• Chair: Gabriele Zimmer (Germany). It is her third term in the EP. She has
chaired the group since 2012
• Seats: 52
The Greens/European Free Alliances (Greens/EFA)
• Chair: Philippe Lamberts (Belgium) and Rebecca Harms (Germany) were
elected co-chairs. Lamberts succeeds Daniel Cohn-Bendit (France). Harms
already co-chaired in the last term.
• Seats: 50
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFD)
• Chair: Nigel Farage (UK) and David Borrelli (Italy). Mr Farage has been an
MEP since 1999 and already co-chaired the political group in the last term. Mr
Borrelli served as a city councillor in Treviso. This is his first term in Parliament.
• Seats: 48
GROUPS IN OLD AND NEW EP
POSSIBLE COALITIONS
Centre-right
Old EP
New EP
Difference
EPP+ALDE
46.6
38.3
-8.3
EPP+ALDE+ECR
54.0
46.7
-7.3
Centre-left
Old EP
New EP
Difference
S&D+G/EFA+GUE-NGL
37.6
39.0
+1.4
(S&D+G/EFA+GUE-NGL)+ALDE
48.4
47.9
-0.5
POSSIBLE COALITIONS
PRO
Old EP
New EP
Difference
EPP+S&D+ALDE
72.2
63.7
-8.5
EPP+S&D
61.4
54.8
-6.6
ANTI
Old EP
EFD+NI+EFA
New EP
Difference
8.4
18.7
+10.3
ECR+EFD+EFA+NI
15.8
28.1
+12.3
(ECR+EFD+EFA+NI)+GUE
20.4
35.0
+14.6
Questions