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4 Party Groups in the European Parliament

At the start of Parliament's sixth term (2004-2009), there were seven groups, plus Non-Inscrits (non-aligned members). As of July 21, 2004 the composition of the Parliament was:

• EPP-ED ( European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats)
  • 268 seats
• PES (Group of the Party of European Socialists)
  • 200 seats
• ALDE ( Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) ( European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and European Democratic Party)
  • 88 seats
• Greens-EFA ( European Federation of Green Parties/European Free Alliance)
  • 42 seats
• GUE-NGL ( European United Left / Nordic Green Left)
  • 41 seats
• IND/DEM ( Independence and Democracy)
  • 37 seats
• UEN ( Union for a Europe of Nations)
  • 27 seats
• Some of the members of the European Parliament prefer not to belong to any political group. These independent members are referred to as NI ( Non-Inscrits).
  • 29 seats

The makeup of Parliament's groups is fairly fluid, and delegations (or indeed individual Members) are free to switch allegiances as they see fit.

European Parliament party groups are distinct from the corresponding political parties, although they are intimately linked. Usually, the European parties also have member parties from European countries which are not members of the European Union.

5 Representation

The European Parliament represents 450 million citizens of the European Union. Since 13 June 2004, there are 732 Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs), with a proportionally larger representation for smaller member states. This number was temporarily raised to 788 to accommodate representatives from the ten states that joined the EU on 1 May 2004, but will remain fixed at 732 even after the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007.

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