President of the European Parliament
head of debate oversight in the European Union legislature
The President of the European Parliament is the head of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President has to sign that EU laws and the EU budget can become valid.
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Style | President[1] |
Status | Presiding officer |
Member of | European Parliament |
Residence | Louise Weiss building |
Seat | Strasbourg, France |
Appointer | European Parliament |
Term length | 2.5 years, renewable once |
Inaugural holder | Paul Henri Spaak / Robert Schuman[2] |
Formation | 1952 / 1958[2] |
Deputy | Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament |
Website | europarl.europa.eu |
Presidents serve two-and-a-half-year terms. This time is normally divided between the two major political parties of the European Parliament. There have been twenty-eight Presidents, since the Parliament was created in 1952. Thirteen of whom have served since the first Parliamentary election in 1979. Two Presidents have been women and most have come from the older member states.
List of Elected President of the European Parliament
changeN. | Portrait | President (Born–Died) |
State | Took office | Left office | Party | Group | Election | Refs | |
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1 | Simone Veil (1927–2017) |
France | 17 July 1979 | 19 January 1982 | UDF | Liberal Democrats | 1979 | |||
2 years, 186 days | ||||||||||
2 | Piet Dankert (1934–2003) |
Netherlands | 19 January 1982 | 24 July 1984 | PvdA | Socialists | ||||
2 years, 187 days | ||||||||||
3 | Pierre Pflimlin (1907–2000) |
France | 24 July 1984 | 20 January 1987 | UDF / RPR | European People's Party | 1984 | |||
2 years, 180 days | ||||||||||
4 | C. Henry Plumb (1925–2022) |
United Kingdom | 20 January 1987 | 25 July 1989 | Conservative | European Democrats | ||||
2 years, 186 days | ||||||||||
5 | Enrique Barón Crespo (born 1944) |
Spain | 25 July 1989 | 21 January 1992 | PSOE | Socialists | 1989 | |||
2 years, 180 days | ||||||||||
6 | Egon Klepsch (1930–2010) |
Germany | 21 January 1992 | 19 July 1994 | CDU | European People's Party | ||||
2 years, 179 days | ||||||||||
7 | Klaus Hänsch (born 1938) |
Germany | 19 July 1994 | 14 January 1997 | SPD | Party of European Socialists | 1994 | |||
2 years, 186 days | ||||||||||
8 | José María Gil-Robles (1935–2023) |
Spain | 14 January 1997 | 20 July 1999 | PP | European People's Party | ||||
2 years, 187 days | ||||||||||
9 | Nicole Fontaine (1942–2018) |
France | 20 July 1999 | 15 January 2002 | UMP | European People's Party | 1999 | |||
2 years, 179 days | ||||||||||
10 | Pat Cox (born 1952) |
Ireland | 15 January 2002 | 20 July 2004 | Independent | Liberal Democrats | ||||
2 years, 187 days | ||||||||||
11 | Josep Borrell (born 1947) |
Spain | 20 July 2004 | 16 January 2007 | PSOE | Party of European Socialists | 2004 | |||
2 years, 180 days | ||||||||||
12 | Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 1945) |
Germany | 16 January 2007 | 14 July 2009 | CDU | European People's Party | ||||
2 years, 179 days | ||||||||||
13 | Jerzy Buzek (born 1940) |
Poland | 14 July 2009 | 17 January 2012 | PO | European People's Party | 2009 | |||
2 years, 187 days | ||||||||||
14 | Martin Schulz (born 1955) |
Germany | 17 January 2012 | 17 January 2017 | SPD | Socialists & Democrats | ||||
5 years, 0 days | 2014 | |||||||||
15 | Antonio Tajani (born 1953) |
Italy | 17 January 2017 | 3 July 2019 | FI | European People's Party | ||||
2 years, 167 days | ||||||||||
16 | David Sassoli (1956–2022) |
Italy | 3 July 2019 | 11 January 2022† | PD | Socialists & Democrats | 2019 | |||
2 years, 192 days | ||||||||||
17 | Roberta Metsola (born 1979) |
Malta | 18 January 2022[a] | Incumbent | PN | European People's Party | ||||
2 years, 198 days |
Notes
change- ↑ Acting from 11 to 18 January 2022.
References
change- ↑ English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission (PDF) (8 ed.). European Commission. October 2019. p. 119. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parliament began either in 1952 with the Common Assembly or 1958 with the Parliamentary Assembly.