After the speech of Herman Van Rompuy on 24 February 2010 in the European parliament, Farage — to protests from other MEPs — addressed the first long-term President of the European Council saying that he had the " charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of low grade bank clerk ".

By 24 June 2008, IND / DEM had 22 MEPs.

If the Council still does not approve the Parliament's position, then the text is taken to a " Conciliation Committee " composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP ( with the exception of the British Conservatives who did not join the Party ) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right throughout the ' 90s with the acquisition of members from the Italian Forza Italia.

MEPs may be full or associate members.

* Associate member parties may include parties that do not have MEPs ( e. g., French Trotskyist parties which did not get elected in the 2004 European elections ), are from states that are not part of the European Union, or do not wish to be full members.

* MEPs: Malika Benarab-Attou, Pascal Canfin, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Karima Delli, Hélène Flautre, Catherine Grèze, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Michèle Rivasi ( 6 of the 14 MEPs from Europe Écologie are not members of the party ).

The college consists of three equally weighted sections: the votes of Labour MPs and MEPs ; the votes of affiliated trade unions and socialist societies ; and the votes of individual members of Constituency Labour Parties.

They also have two MEPs in the European Parliament and two members of the London Assembly, as well as 140 councillors in various local councils across England and Wales.

* the European Parliament, in which members representing the whole of the UK are elected every five years and are called Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs )

A European Convention was founded shortly afterward which was chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and composed of two Members of Parliament ( generally one from the governing majority and one from the opposition ) of each Member State and applicant state, 16 MEPs, 2 members of the European Commission and a representative from each government.

When the European Parliament was first established, MEPs were appointed by member states from members of their own national parliament.

He was also accused of not giving to the French party the percentage of income that all MEPs and other elected members are supposed to give to their party, although the party had officially agreed to exempt him before his first election in France.

However, neither the European Constitution nor the Lisbon Treaty proposed any changes to this system despite calls to address it by former court members and MEPs.

Respect co-initiator George Monbiot, a left-wing writer and activist, left the project before its launch, because Respect intended to stand members of its party against existing Green Party members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ).

Other council members include Conservative MPs Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Robert Halfon, Philip Hollobone, Gerald Howarth, John Whittingdale, and Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MEPs Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer, former Conservative MSP Brian Monteith, and former leader of UKIP Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch.

In the 2004 European Parliament Election it stood on a joint ticket with the European Democrats which gained 11 % of the vote and elected three MEPs, two of whom are members of the SNK.

MEPs that are not members of groups are known as non-inscrits.

The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in that its members ( MEPs ) organize themselves in such ideological groups like in traditional national legislatures.

The Committee is composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs who seek to agree a common position.

Due to its small size, the Grand Duchy elects just six members out of a total of 732, which is more than only Malta ( which elects five MEPs ); nonetheless, Luxembourg's representation is disproportionately large compared to its population, and Luxembourg elects more MEPs per capita than any other country ( see: Apportionment in the European Parliament ).

In addition, MEPs are used as a reference to adjust the intensity of stimulation that need to delivered by TMS when targeting cortical regions whose response might not be as easily measurable, e. g., in the context of TMS-based therapy.

In its first European Parliament elections in 2004, Estonia elected 3 MEPs for the Social Democratic Party ( PES ), while the governing Res Publica Party and People's Union polled poorly, not being able to gain any of the other 3 MEPs posts.

* 3: Backbench MPs or MEPs elected by all Labour MPs and MEPs

The list received just 3. 4 % of the national vote and failed to return any MEPs.

During the general election of 2010, in which 74 % of those eligible turned out to vote, David Heath achieved a relatively slim majority of 1, 817 votes ( 3 % of the total ), Frome is within the South West England European Parliamentary constituency which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

They also have had 3 MEPs in the European Parliament since the European Elections of 2009 ( 10, 73 %, surpassing for the first time the CDU platform, formed by the Greens and the Portuguese Communist Party ) and many local councillors.

For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the South constituency which returns 3 MEPs.

For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the South constituency which returns 3 MEPs.

The electoral system was First Past the Post in England, Scotland and Wales ( electing 78 MEPs in total ) and Single Transferable Vote in Northern Ireland ( electing 3 MEPs ).

The United Kingdom Independence Party did exceptionally well, and managed to increase its number of MEPs from 3 to 12, drawing level with the Liberal Democrats, who increased their representation from 10 to 12 seats, and pushing them into fourth place in the overall vote.

The list received just 3. 1 % of the national vote and failed to return any MEPs.

It was the most successful party in the 2004 European Parliamentary Election, obtaining 36. 8 % of the national vote and returning 3 MEPs.

Gilmore went on to appoint 3 other Labour Senators giving the Labour Party its highest ever membership of the Seanad, at 12, and its largest Parliamentary Party ( TDs, Senators, MEPs ) at 52.

Northern Ireland is represented at Westminster by 18 single-member constituencies elected by the first past the post method, and at the European Parliament by a single constituency returning 3 MEPs by the STV method.

They participated in the 1999 European Parliament elections, but only got 2. 3 %, which was not enough to elect MEPs.

The list received just 3. 4 % of the national vote and failed to return any MEPs.

In elections to the European Parliament, Wombourne is part of the very large West Midlands constituency which is represented by a total of seven MEPs: 3 Conservative, 2 Labour, 1 Liberal Democrat and 1 UK Independence Party.

It currently elects 3 MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

This policy bore fruit, with the Greek New Democracy and Spanish Partido Popular MEPs joining the EPP Group.

* New MEPs elected

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Kerr fell out with the New Labour government not long after the 5 May 1997 General Election – when Rammell was elected as Harlow's MP – accusing the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of " stalinist tendencies " for planning to abolish all current euro-constituencies and for introducing a party list regional system for future European elections, and to stifle any criticism by Labour MEPs.