Questions tagged [european-parliament]
For questions regarding the parliament of the European Union.
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Can a no-deal Brexit happen before the new extension end date of 31 October 2019?
Under what circumstances can the new Brexit extension (31 Oct) be ended short of that date?
The EU has said that:
If the withdrawal agreement is ratified by both parties before this date, the ...
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What's Hans-Olaf Henkel's position on the EU?
In a speech that was vociferously interrupted, MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel accused Juncker of being the "[Commission] president who lost Britain" and said that Junker's pinning of the blame on Cameron was "...
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Is there any impact of voting for a list that will not get any representation?
Members of the European Parliament for France are chosen proportionally, according to the votes received by each list of candidates, provided that the list receives more than 5% of the votes.
The ...
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Running a General Election and the European Elections together
There's talk in the news about the possibility of a General Election being called. If one is called, could the General Election and European Election be run together with a single ballot paper divided ...
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European elections and the UK
As far as I know, the UK legislation required in the UK to hold European elections has been revoked. If Brexit gets delayed and the UK is forced to hold European elections, could the elections be held ...
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What would a revoked Brexit after the 2019 EU parliament elections mean for the European Parliament?
This is a follow-up of this question: Suppose EU27 grants the UK the extension May has asked for till 2019-06-30. That would mean that the UK would not take part in the 2019 EU parliament elections.
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In the event of Brexit being postponed beyond the EU elections, will UK voters in EU countries be eligible to participate?
Currently it is speculated that Theresa May will ask for an extension of Article 50 to the end of June/early July of 2019.
It is probably that any delay will continue beyond the next EU parliamentary ...
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Why is participating in the European Parliamentary elections used as a threat?
As the Brexit deadline approaches, I've seen reporting recently over the British government using participation in the European Parliament elections as a threat to convince MPs to not force the ...
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Were national assembly MPs ever sent as MEPs without an election after 1979?
In the context of a Brexit delay, an article in the Guardian mentions that
The prospect of a lengthy delay has been made more palatable after the UK’s advocate general in the European court of ...
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How to explain the importance of European Parliament elections to a regular folk living in Eastern Europe?
European Parliament elections are coming in 2019 and on several occasions I have heard various public figures arguing about their importance and that it is very important to show up and vote. However, ...
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How does the European Parliament assess if a person represents a security risk or not?
EU Observer tells us about a person who is both working for European Parliament and quite close to Putin:
Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, is working ...
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Who voted for anonymity in the vote on transparency in the European Parliament?
Today the 31st of January 2019 there was a vote in the European Parliament on the topic of transparency with regards to contacts with lobbyists (link in swedish). This vote was decided to be cast ...
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Are EU Parliament speeches re-translated to minimize “lost in translation”?
According to this article a Romanian minister speech was particularly hard to translate, so the various (real-time?) translations were quite different:
English
Let me tell you that the fact that I ...
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What would a delayed Brexit mean for the 2019 European Parliament election?
One proposal for the current political situation in the UK regards Brexit is a delay of the Brexit for further discussions/votes/elections/referenda/...
But we have the 2019 European Parliament ...
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Is the GUE-NGL unwilling to advise against Brexit? If so, why?
130 of the eighth and current European Parliament's 751 members have signed a letter urging the UK to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the EU. All are members of EPP, S&D, ALDE or Greens-...
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Are all recorded EP votes public? [duplicate]
I'm desparately trying to find who voted for the language equality in the digital age act, apart from the comittee.
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Did the EU cookie consent law have a pilot scheme?
Was the EU ePrivacy Regulation law subject to prior testing? ePrivacy was introdued in 2009 and updated in 2017. A key goal was:
The new rule will streamline the overload of consent requests for ...
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Is there a way for EU to exclude a member country from assuming presidency?
Recently the EU Parliament voted (also with help from several Romanian members) a resolution concerning the rule of law in Romania:
The EP is calling on the Romanian authorities “to put in place
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Where can I find the vote distribution of an EU directive?
Recently the EU Parliament voted on the “Copyright Directive”.
I would like to know exactly which parties/individuals voted for and against this directive.
I have been looking for this information ...
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What happens to a MEP who is suspended (or even expelled) from his own party in his home country?
There have been some recent cases of British MEPs being suspended from their party "at home". What are the implications of such moves for their activities (and EU-level groups) as a MEP? Do they lose ...
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Would European Parliament members from the UK get to vote on the final Brexit deal?
Presuming that a deal is negotiated between the UK and the EU, there would most likely have to be a vote in the European Parliament to confirm it. Given that UK MPs would continue to serve in their ...
