https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in that its members (MEPs) organise themselves into ideological groups, rather than national cleavages. [1]

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisation-and-rules/organisation/political-groups
The political groups in the European Parliament. Each political group care of its own internal organisation by appointing a chair (or two cochairs in the case of some groups), a bureau and a secretariat. The places assigned to Members in the Chamber are decided by political affiliation, from left to right, by agreement with the group chairs.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20190612STO54311/parliament-s-seven-political-groups
The Left. Manon Aubry (France), MEP since 2019, and Martin Schirdewan (Germany), MEP since 2017. 38. Find out more about the political groups and their size in this and previous parliamentary terms on our elections results website. The European Parliament counts 705 members. Read on to find out in which of the seven political groups your MEP sits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission.The Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs), due to rise to 720 after the June

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/seven-political-groups-fighting-european-parliament-election-2024-05-29/
The parliament has for the past five years been governed by a three-group majority of the centre-right European People's Party, centre-left Socialists and Democrats and liberals of Renew Europe.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/19/the-political-groups-of-the-european-parliament
The European Parliament: Powers. Parliament asserts its institutional role in European policy-making by exercising its various functions. Parliament's participation in the legislative process, its budgetary and control powers, its involvement in treaty revision and its right to intervene before the Court of Justice of the European Union

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-parliaments-34574041
European People's Party (EPP) - 217 MEPs. This is the biggest group in the European Parliament, containing some of the EU's longest-established political parties. This used to be the home of the

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/20/the-european-parliament-organisation-and-operation
Certain political groups correspond to supranational political parties operating at EU level. F. European political parties and foundations. Parliament recommends the creation of an environment that is conducive to the development of truly European political parties and foundations, including the adoption of framework legislation.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Parliament
The European Parliament is the legislative assembly of the European Union. The more than 700 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected by direct universal suffrage to terms of five years. ... The vast majority of MEPs sit in one of seven transnational political groups, rather than in national groups. A significant number of members

https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/search-all-eu-institutions-and-bodies/european-parliament_en
Parliament's work comprises two main stages: Committees - to prepare legislation. The Parliament numbers 20 committees and three subcommittees, each handling a particular policy area. The committees examine proposals for legislation, and MEPs and political groups can put forward amendments or propose to reject a bill.

https://www.electionseuropeennes.eu/en/composition/
This image shows the distribution of the MEPs in the European Parliament. Source : European Parliament. Distribution of seats per political group and Member State. European Peoples Party (EPP) Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Renew Europe Greens-European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA)

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/party-manifestos-key-points-pledges-and-policies-explained
Group of the European People's Party (EPP) With 176 seats out of 705 as of the end of the last plenary session in April, the centre-right EPP is the largest political group in the European Parliament. The group also shares the same name as the transnational party it represents - the European People's Party - which is made up of MEPs from

https://shapingeurope.eu/the-different-political-groups-in-the-european-parliament/
Over the years, the number of political groups in the European Parliament has changed from time to time. Sometimes one is added or two groups merge. There are currently seven political groups, with 705 seats. Below you will find all the political groups, in order of the number of seats obtained in the previous elections, with all the important

https://www.europeanmovement.ie/the-political-groups-of-the-european-parliament/
The Political Groups…. Between 6-9 June 2024, millions of citizens across the 27 countries of the European Union had the opportunity to vote and elect the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who will represent them for the next five years (2024-2029). The majority of MEP candidates in Ireland are members of national political parties.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-data-groups-far-right-green-deal-gender/
The European Parliament term now drawing a close started off with 751 elected representatives from 28 countries, but will close with just 705 from 27 member nations. ... tracking the dealmaking of more than 700 lawmakers representing dozens of national parties across seven political groups — much of which happens behind closed doors — is a

https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/index.html
Political groups Number of seats; EPP - Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats): 189: S&D - Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament: 136: ECR - European Conservatives and Reformists Group: 83: Renew Europe - Renew Europe Group: 74: ID - Identity and Democracy Group: 58: Greens/EFA - Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

https://www.europeanmovement.ie/whos-who-the-political-groups-of-the-european-parliament/
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is the largest political group within the European Parliament since 1999. The EPP returned 221 MEPs in the 2014 elections out of a total of 751, including Ireland's four Fine Gael MEPs. President of the European Council, Donald Tusk is a member of the EPP, as is European Commission President

https://epthinktank.eu/2019/07/09/size-of-political-groups-in-the-ep-2019-2024/
At the moment, there are seven political groups in the Parliament, and many of those were also present in the last term: EPP - Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) S&D - Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. Renew Europe Group.

https://ec.europa.eu/stories/eu-institutional-appointments/
A political group must consist of at least 23 MEPs elected from at least one quarter of the Member States. Election of the European Parliament President. At the beginning of the new parliamentary term, the President of the Parliament is elected by the MEPs for a renewable period of two and a half years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY5paQfAaI
The European Parliament has seven political groups uniting members of Parliament into political families. These groups mirror the political spectrum present

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/europe/france-parliament-election-explainer-intl-cmd/index.html
Minutes after it was announced that his Renaissance party had been trounced in the European Parliament elections, President Emmanuel Macron called a snap national election - becoming the first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Alliance_of_Socialists_and_Democrats
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S&D) [1] is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). [14] The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist Group on 29 June 1953, which makes it the second oldest political group in the European

https://www.eunews.it/en/2024/06/13/groups-committees-and-plenary-all-the-dates-for-the-establishment-of-the-new-european-parliament/
Groups, committees, and plenary. All the dates for the establishment of the new European Parliament. Between June 18 and July 15 the new political groups will be definitively formed, before the inaugural session between July 16 and 19 in which the chair, vice-chairs and quaestors will be elected and the composition of standing committees and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_Group
The European People's Party Group (EPP Group) is a centre-right to right wing political group of the European Parliament consisting of deputies (MEPs) from the member parties of the European People's Party (EPP). Sometimes it also includes independent MEPs and/or deputies from unaffiliated national parties. The EPP Group comprises politicians of Christian democratic, conservative and liberal

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisation-and-rules/organisation/members
MEPs are organised by political affinity, not nationality, and join political groups that have representatives from many countries Check out the number of MEPs by country and by political group. Around 40% of MEPs were women in February 2024. Learn more in our infographic on women in the European Parliament.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/14/what-are-political-groups-and-how-are-they-formed
These groups bring together MEPs from different Member States because of their political affinities. Groups can also be formed at a later point in the parliamentary mandate. Currently there are seven political groups in the European Parliament. A formally recognised political group must consist of at least 23 MEPs coming from at least one

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/the-political-groups-of-the-european-parliament_N01-PUB-190724-WRAP
The European Parliament has seven political groups uniting members of Parliament into political families. These groups mirror the political spectrum present in all EU countries.

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-law-and-justice-mateusz-morawiecki-giorgia-meloni-viktor-orban/
The move would be a huge blow to Meloni, as her European Conservative and Reformists group has recently grown to become the third largest force in the Parliament. The ECR is now the third-largest group in the Parliament, moving ahead of the liberals, with PiS (20 MEPs) and Meloni's Brothers of Italy (24) as its two largest national parties.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-commission-president-von-der-leyen-wins-another-term-faz-dpa-say-2024-06-25/
European political groups on Tuesday agreed to a deal on top European Union posts, selecting Germany's Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as head of the European Commission, the bloc's

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/orban-babis-kickl-create-new-patriotic-alliance-to-redefine-eu-policies-eye-new-parliament-group/
This alliance, rooted in populist parties from the three countries, seeks to form a new political group in the European Parliament by 15 July, coinciding with the constituency meeting in Strasbourg.