Apportionment in the European Parliament: Difference between revisions

==2019 election==

The EU needed to revise the apportionment of seats in time for the next European Parliament election, expected to be held in May 2019, when the United Kingdom's 73 MEPs may have vacated their seats following [[Brexit]]. In April 2017, a group of European lawmakers discussed what should be done about the vacated seats. One plan, supported by [[Enrico Letta]], [[Gianni Pittella]] and [[Emmanuel Macron]], was to replace the 73 seats with a pan-European constituency list. Other options which were considered include dropping the British seats without replacement and reassigning some or all of the existing seats from other countries to reduce inequality of representation.<ref name="politicomep">{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.eu/article/meps-debate-who-inherits-british-seats/|title=MEPs debate who inherits British seats|access-date=12 April 2017|publisher=politico.eu}}</ref> A plan to reduce the number of seats to 705 was approved by the Parliament in February 2018. It involves redistributing 27 seats to under-represented members and reserving the remaining 46 for future EU expansions. A proposal by the Constitutional Affairs Committee to create a pan-member constituency was rejected by the Parliament at the same time.<ref name="feb-2018-shrink-europarl">{{cite press release |url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180202IPR97025/size-of-parliament-to-shrink-after-brexit |title=Size of Parliament to shrink after Brexit |publisher=[[European Parliament]] |date=7 February 2018 |access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref>

 

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==2024 election==