In Strasbourg, the newly elected European Parliament starts its work. That is, how is it? Which country sends the most women? How old are the members? An Analysis Of Data.
“If I open in the morning at Breakfast the newspaper, then I see a Europe of old white men in dark suits, the said in any back rooms contracts to sign”, in 2014, the green member of the European Parliament Terry Reintke. This is not Europe, she added.
More and more politicians are now for a gender-equitable distribution of political Offices and mandates in the European Union. Just recently, French President Emmanuel Macron insisted that the four top European jobs, so the Offices of the President of the European Commission, the President of the Council, of the foreign representative and the chief of the European Central Bank (ECB) would have to be occupied with two women and two men.
Women’s share increases from 36 to 40 percent
Slowly, the European Parliament is approaching in its composition the gender distribution in the population. Compared to 2014, the proportion of women has further increased to 40 percent. 446 men and 302 women in the constituent meeting on Tuesday their places.
Actually, it would be a total of 751 members of Parliament, but of the three places in Spain, selected MEPs Oriol Junqueras, Antoni Comín and Carles Puigdemont will remain vacant. The Spanish authorities, blocking the mandates of the Catalan separatists.
The Greens, in addition to even shoot on the goal
A look at the various political groups in the European Parliament shows that the proportion of women is unevenly distributed. The peak position, with 39 women and 37 men, the group of the greens/European Free Alliance (EFA). It is made up of the Greens and the European Free Alliance, of independent members, pirates and representatives of stateless Nations and disadvantaged minorities have closed. The group had in the last Parliament, 51 members, according to the choice of the Green in the European elections, there are now 76 members out of a total of 16 EU countries.
In all other groups, less than half of the parliamentarians are female. With a 48 percent share of women Renew Europe is in second place in this Ranking. The group has established 2019 fresh and is the successor of the Alliance of liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). In the new Parliament with 109 members politically, the third-strongest force. To 45 per cent for women GUE/NGL, Confederal group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, bring it. She only has 40 members and is thereby the smallest group in the European Parliament.
The second strongest political force in the circle of the new members of the group of the European socialists and Democrats, S&d Of the 152 deputies are 43 per cent women. On the average quota of women in the European Parliament, 40 per cent, bringing it in this year, newly founded ID, a merger of nine right-wing populist, nationalist and extreme right-wing parties, including the Italian Lega, and French Rassemblement National, the German AfD. The aim of the ID, it was actually to be the largest group in the new European Parliament. However, neither the members of the Polish PiS nor the Hungarian Fidesz could attract.
The largest group is male
The Hungarians remained in spite of a great battle in the EPP. The European people’s party remains, with its 182 members, the largest group in the Parliament. You come from a Christian-democratic and conservative to national-conservative right-wing populist parties in the European Union. 120 men against 62 women, the quota for women is 34 percent.
A special role is played by the EFDD takes. In the statistics of the European Parliament, to which this data analysis concerns, the group Europe of freedom and direct democracy, with 43 members and a woman’s rate of 37 percent. After the AfD wants to switch in the group ID and the Italian Five-star movement has also given her resignation from the EFDD known, would not be given the formal terms for a group formation. The British Brexit advocates Nigel Farage has, however, announced that the group, with other members, will continue to lead.
The fewest women are found in the ECR, the group of the European Conservatives and Reformists. It is one in the new Parliament, 62 members, of which almost a third are women. The national-conservative and EU-critical group since 2009. Most of the members of the Polish party law and justice (PiS).
Sweden posted the highest percentage of women
Overall, the member States have to send so many more men than women in the new EU Parliament. In Each of the shows, however, that there are certainly differences between the individual countries.
Sweden and Finland in the Ranking in the front of the. A precisely balanced ratio of women and men in France (74 MEPs), Austria (18 deputies), Slovenia and Latvia (eight deputies), as well as Malta and Luxembourg (the six members) bring it. Germany has 96 MEPs-the largest national share of the European Parliament. With only 36 percent of Parliamentarians, it ends up in the Ranking after the women’s quota but only on place 18.
Less than 30 percent of women send Bulgaria (17 members), Lithuania (eleven members), Greece (21 deputies), Romania (32 members) and Slovakia (13 MEPs). Relegated to the last place Cyprus lands. The six deputies are all men.
The new Parliament is younger
A view on the age of the 748 MP results mathematically, an average of 51 years. In 2014 elected Parliament, the average age was 56 years.
By the parties shows that in the case of the Greens, the liberals, the Left, and the group of the majority of parliamentarians are younger than the average age is loose. In the right and conservative political groups, but also among the social Democrats, a majority are to be found rather older than the young parliamentarians. The youngest members of the European Parliament is 21 years old and belongs to the group of the greens/EFA. The oldest is 83 and a member of the EPP.
What comes after the Brexit?
If the UK exit from the EU, will change the composition of the European Parliament. There are 34 female and 39 male British members of Parliament would be eliminated. Their seats but would not be distributed evenly to all remaining 27 States. Instead, the number of deputies should be reduced from 751 to 705. 46 of the 73 British seats are made for possible enlargements of the EU in the Reserve. The remaining 27 seats will be distributed on slightly under-represented countries in the EU. Germany is not one of them.
France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands to between three and five additional seats. Ten other countries would also be increased. This would change the political composition of the Parliament in each case. The extent to which the woman is influenced by proportion, is not yet in sight.
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