About the European Parliament

Are MEPs really that effective after all? - Apr 30th, 09:55

Elected from the EU's 27 Member States, MEPs are grouped according to their political alliance and not by nationality. This makes for a different dynamic than what we are used to in national Parliaments where parties form a government and an opposition. In the European...

The European Parliament in numbers - Apr 28th, 12:02

• 736 MEPs to be elected in June • 3 places of work (Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg) • almost 200 political parties from 27 Member States represented • 481 reports adopted in plenary and 7,816 parliamentary questions made in 2007 Malta has the best...

Turnout in Malta in 2004 EP Elections - Apr 27th, 14:31

Following Malta's accession to the EU in May of 2004, the country held its first election to the European Parliament on 12 June 2004. The contest to elect five MEPs attracted 27 candidates - eight each by the Nationalist Party (PN) and the Labour Party (PL), one from...

The EP elections since 1979 - Apr 27th, 12:00

On June 6, Maltese voters will be called to vote in the European Parliament elections for the second time since Malta joined the EU. But for some countries this will be the seventh EP election. The first direct elections for the European Parliament were held exactly 30 years...

Who dictates how EP elections are run? - Apr 27th, 12:00

The elections to the European Parliament are still, to a large extent, organised according to national law and traditions. There are common EU rules which lay down that the elections must be by direct universal suffrage as well as free and confidential and that MEPs must be...

'Fort Cambridge, the Euro and my broken pavement' - Apr 27th, 12:00

The heavily contested real estate project of Fort Cambridge in Sliema was a concern to more than a quarter of the Maltese who wrote to the European Parliament during 2007 and 2008. During the past two years 55,495 Europeans wrote directly to the EP and its President,...