Τhe Composition of the European Parliament
The workshop, organized by the Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs upon request by the AFCO Committee, provides insight in the issue of apportionment of seats in the European Parliament, one of the most politically sensitive decisions with direct impact on citizens' representation in the European Parliament. The workshop examined methods for the apportionment of seats in Parliament that would satisfy the requirements of the principle of degressive proportionality and that would be able to automatically adjust to the changing demographic picture in the Union as well as be able to accommodate changes in the number of EU Member States.
In-Depth Analysis
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Friedrich Pukelsheim, Geoffrey Grimmett, Victoriano Ramírez González, Wojciech Słomczyński and Karol Życzkowski
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- composition of parliament
- demographic analysis
- demography and population
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- electoral procedure and voting
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- EU statistics
- Europe
- European construction
- European Parliament
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- GEOGRAPHY
- parliament
- parliamentary seat
- political geography
- political group (EP)
- POLITICS
- proportional representation
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- Treaty on European Union
- United Kingdom
- withdrawal from the EU