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Committee On Budgets
The Committee on Budgets (BUDG) is a committee of the European Parliament. It has 41 members plus 39 substitute members. The committee's current chair is Jean Arthuis, who has held this position since 7 July 2014. European Parliament press release 2014-07-07 Membership References External links Official Homepage Budget of the European Union |
Committees Of The European Parliament
The committees of the European Parliament are designed to examine proposals in detail before the matter is dealt with by the full Parliament. They comprise Standing Committees and occasional Temporary Committees or Committees on Inquiry. Each committee is comopsed to reflect the overall political balance of the Parliament as a whole, with seats allocated to each of the political Groups in proportion to their size. Each committee also has substitute members who may vote in place of an absennt full member from their political Group. Standing Committees generally produce reports for consideration by Parliament in its debates. These can be on legislative proposals from the European Commission, or "own initiative reports" on a matter which the committee wishes to take up. Reports are usually drafted by a rapporteur, who is appointed by the committee, selected from amongst its members. The rapporteur's draft is voted on by the committee, typically with amendments being tabled and vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North East England (European Parliament Constituency)
North East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament, MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the Brexit, UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. Boundaries The constituency corresponded to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire. History The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham (European Parliament constituency), Durham, Northumbria (European Parliament constituency), Northumbria, Tyne and Wear (European Parliament constituency), Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond (European Parliament constituency), Cleveland and Richmond. Returned members Election results Elected candidates are shown in bold. Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal (European Parliament Constituency)
Portugal is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Portugal. It is currently represented by twenty-one Members of the European Parliament. Current Members of the European Parliament Elections 1987 The first European election in Portugal was a by-election held after it joined the European Communities in 1987. The rest of the EC had voted in the 1984 European election. 1989 The 1989 European election was the third election to the European Parliament and the first time Portugal voted with the rest of the Community. 1994 The 1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament and the third for Portugal. 1999 The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament and the fourth for Portugal. 2004 The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament and the fifth for Portugal. 2009 The 2009 European election was the seventh election to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Fernandes
José Manuel Ferreira Fernandes (born 26 July 1967) is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party. He has been Minister of Agriculture since 2024 and Minister of the Sea since 2025, in the government led by Luís Montenegro. Previously, Fernandes was a Member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2024. Earlier in his career, he was Mayor of Vila Verde in northern Portugal (1997–2009). Political career Early beginnings Fernandes served as president of JSD - Social Democratic Youth of Vila Verde (1992-1993) and as leader of the Braga district political committee of JSD (1994-1996). Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2024 In parliament, Fernandes was a member of the Committee on Budgets. He was also his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee. In this capacity, he was the parliament's rapporteur on the 2012 and 2016 annual budgets as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments. In 2020, he served as the Parliament's co-rapporteur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe Of Nations And Freedom
Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF; , ENL) was a far-right Political groups of the European Parliament, political group that operated in the European Parliament between 2015 and 2019. It was composed of 37 MEPs and only existed during the Eighth European Parliament, European Parliament's 8th term. Most of its MPs were members of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom political party. Ideologically, ENF was right-wing populist and Eurosceptic. Its members included far-right parties such as French National Front (France), National Front (known as National Rally after 2018), Italian Lega Nord, Dutch Party for Freedom, and Vlaams Belang. After the 2019 European Parliament election, ENF was transformed into the Identity and Democracy group. History Following the 2014 European Parliament election, 2014 European elections on 22–25 May 2014, the European Alliance for Freedom (EAF), comprising far-right politics, far-right parties from across Europe, aimed to form a stable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Elissen
André Elissen (born 12 February 1960 in Frechen, Germany) is a Dutch politician and consultant as well as police officer. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he was an MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. He focused on matters of constitutional law, local government finance, the Dutch Royal House, counter-terrorism, emergency management Emergency management (also Disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actu ... and the Dutch secret service. References *Parlement.com biography 1960 births Living people Dutch consultants Dutch police officers Dutch MPs 2010–2012 Party for Freedom politicians People from Frechen MEPs for the Netherlands 2014–2019 Party for Freedom MPs {{Netherlands-MEP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Community Of Belgium
In Belgium, the French Community (, , CFB) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Since 2011, the French Community has used the name Wallonia-Brussels Federation (, , FWB), which is controversial because its name in the Belgian Constitution has not changed and because it is seen as a political statement. The name "French Community" refers to the French language and not to France. As such, the French Community of Belgium is sometimes rendered in English as "the French-speaking Community of Belgium" for clarity, in analogy to the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The Community has its own parliament, government, and administration. It and its predecessor entity have used the flag of Wallonia since 1975. History Belgium was transformed from the unitary into a federal state. The first state reform of 1970 introduced the "cultural communities" including the French Cultural Community (''Communauté culturelle française''). This was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Deprez
Gérard M.J. Deprez (; born 13 August 1943 in Noville, Bastogne) is a Belgian politician. He was the president of the Walloon Christian Social Party (PSC) from 1981 to 1996. In 1998 he left the PSC and founded the Citizens' Movement for Change (MCC). He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the French Community of Belgium for six terms from 1984 to 2009 and again from 2014 until 2019. He is the Delegate General of the European Democratic Party. Life and political career Deprez studied philosophy, language and literature and added postgraduate studies in sociology. He worked as an assistant lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1966 to 1974 and did his doctorate at the same time. Subsequently, he went into politics, serving as adviser in the office of the Minister for French Culture for one year. Then he became political adviser to the president of the PSC. In 1979 he became the head of the Deputy Prime Minister's office. In 1981 he was elected pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus (European Parliament Constituency)
Cyprus is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Cyprus. It is currently represented by six Members of the European Parliament. Members of the European Parliament Elections 2004 The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. However, as Cyprus had only joined the European Union earlier that month, it was the first election European election held in that state. The election took place on 13 June 2004. The number of registered voters was 483,311 – out of which 503 were Turkish Cypriots and 2054 EU nationals – while the total number of people who voted was 350.387 or 72.50% of the registered voters. The number of polling stations was 1077, allocated to each polling district in the following manner: Nicosia 416, Limassol 323, Famagusta (free area) 50, Larnaca 169 and Paphos 119. The six seats were contested by 59 candidates, belonging to parties or party coalitions or running as ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lefteris Christoforu
Eleutherios or Lefteris (, "the liberator") is an epithet and formal attribution in the Greek pantheon, including: * Dionysus * Eros * Zeus From Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa. # He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games, # and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus. # as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae. # His sons were Iasius. # and Pierus. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis". # Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus. # Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia. # Eleuther, one of the Curete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reimer Böge
Reimer Böge (born 18 December 1951) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, part of the European People's Party. Member of the European Parliament, 1989–present Böge served as cice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand, member of the Committee on Budgets and the Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 and substitute of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation for relations with Japan. In addition, he was standing rapporteur on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013. Böge served as vice-chairman of the Budget Committee and the Parliament’s lead negotiator on the EU’s financial framework for 2007-13; under his stewardship, the Parliament got an extra €4 billion and the chance to vote on the budget review. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
