How many seats does your state get in the EU Parliament?

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  3. We really should just pick one formula and stick with it, instead of all this politicking about who gets how many seats. (Well, if you ask me, we should just elect all MEPs proportionally from 1 big constituency, and move the Council from QMV to a simple majority of states in as many matters as possible to counterbalance the shift in power – but that doesn’t seem likely in the short term.)

  4. For example, Germany has about 9 times the population of Austria, but less than 5 times the seats.

    Thus, an Austrian vote counts double compared to a German vote.

    It would be better to have pan European parties in the EU Parliament and count all votes the same.

  5. This is a great dilemma.

    On one side, someone say: “The majority should decide.” On the other side, should only 3 or 4 countries decide about the EU?

  6. Yet a single Maltese, Luxembourgish, or Cypriot veto can block all the rest. Fortunately those countries aren’t in the business of vetoing, but the veto is absurdly powerful and needs to be rethought (looking at Austria-Hungary in particular)

  8. Germany has 82 million people and has 96 seats, luxembourg has 650k people and has 6 seats, honestly this doesnt seem bad at all for smaller countries in fact they have an advantage if germany had same ratio as luxembourg germany should have around 700 seats

  10. This is the reason why Turkey will never enter the European Union 😂

  13. Quick math : Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland together make up for more than half of the total seats.

  14. Some information is missing on the picture. Country’s with small amount of citizen like Malta get extra seats to have a chance in the Parlament. Example: Malta 6 Seats, Germany 96. Germany has about 160 times more citizens then Malta. If all country’s had the same ratio, the Parlament would be very small and/or country’s like Malta had only 1 seat or the Parlament would be much more bigger.

  15. Austria has 9.2 million people, Bavaria as the biggest state of Germany 13.3 million. Austria sends 20 members to the EU Parlament, Bavaria 15. Considering the one-man-one-vote rule for democratic countries, guess why the German constitutional court sees the EU Parlament not as a true Parlament. 😜

  16. This is the point that is highly undemocratic of the EU institution. It’s not one person one vote in the parliament.

  17. Huh, TIL Hungary has way less population than I thought it did. They sure make a lot of noise for such a small country, especially compared to their neighbours. 

  19. I think it’s a shame that the parties campaign as their national parties and not as their EU level party groups. It would be easier to understand what we are voting for if we voted for the party groups and we could also have international debates and such. Most of us understand english, no reason we can’t have a debate between a swedish social-democrat representing S&D and a german christian-democrat representing EPP.

  28. For those wondering, these are the rules for distributing EP seats between countries (TEU 14.2):

    1. Each country has at least 6 seats.
    2. No country has more than 96 seats.
    3. For any given country, and before rounding, the population per seat may not be higher than any country with a population larger than it.

    Within those parameters, the distribution is decided by political negotiation. The European Parliament proposes the apportionment before each election, the European Council then unanimously, and with the consent of the European Parliament, adopts the decision on the apportionment.

    In practice the current distribution is a result of political negotiation. The reason for the increase from 705 to 720 seats is due to the relative decline in population for Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Italy. In order to make up for that, you would have to either remove seats from these countries, or add seats to countries with a smaller population and worse representation than those countries. The EP and EUCO chose the latter option.

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