The European Parliament

European Parliament
8th European Parliament
Leadership
President	Antonio Tajani, EPP Since 17 January 2017
Vice Presidents	14 Mairead McGuinness (EPP) Bogusław Liberadzki (S&D) David Sassoli (S&D) Rainer Wieland (EPP) Sylvie Guillaume (S&D) Ryszard Czarnecki (ECR) Ramón Luis Valcárcel (EPP) Evelyne Gebhardt (S&D) Pavel Telička (ALDE) Ildikó Pelczné Gáll (EPP) Ioan Mircea Pașcu (S&D) Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL) Ulrike Lunacek (Greens/EFA) Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (ALDE) Since 18 January 2017
Leader of largest political group	Manfred Weber, EPP Since 4 June 2014
Leader of the 2nd largest political group	Gianni Pittella, S&D Since 1 July 2014
Structure
Seats	751 MEPs
Political groups	GUE-NGL (52)      S&D (189)      Greens-EFA (51)      ALDE (68)      EPP (215)      ECR (72)      EFDD (42)      ENF (40)      Non-Inscrits (18) Vacant (3)
Committees	22 Budgets Budgetary Control Economic & Monetary Affairs Employment and Social Affairs Environment, Public Health & Food Safety Industry, Research & Energy Internal Market & Consumer Protection Transport & Tourism Regional Development Agriculture & Rural Development Fisheries Culture & Education Legal Affairs Civil Liberties, Justice & Home Affairs Constitutional Affairs Women's Rights & Gender Equality Petitions Foreign Affairs - Human Rights (Sub) - Security & Defence (Sub) Development International Trade
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Party list, STV and First-past-the-post
Last election	22–25 May 2014
Next election	2019
Meeting place
1st: Louise Weiss: Strasbourg, France (image) 2nd: Espace Léopold: Brussels, Belgium Secretariat: Luxembourg & Brussels
Website
europarl.europa.eu

     GUE-NGL (52)
     S&D (189)
     Greens-EFA (51)
     ALDE (68)
     EPP (215)
     ECR (72)
     EFDD (42)
     ENF (40)
     Non-Inscrits (18)

The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU. The Parliament is composed of 751 members, who represent 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).