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Chart 2: European Council meetings in 2020

Figure 1 – Key topics in the European Council on the coronavirus pandemic

Focus on migration as part of the European Council conclusions

Attention paid to Protecting citizens as part of the European Council conclusions 2014-2019

References to different topics related to EU values and democracy raised by EU Heads of State or Government during their Future of Europe debates in the EP 2018-2019

European Council role in the EU policy cycle

Monitoring by the European Council of the Syrian crisis

Interaction between CARD, PESCO and the EDF

The Commission’s rule of law framework

Article 7(1) TEU mechanism (preventive arm)

Article 7(2) and (3) TEU mechanism (sanctions arm)

EU pact on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights (DRF)

EU mechanisms to monitor, prevent and enforce EU values

Appointment of judges-members of councils for the judiciary: involvement of the judiciary

MEPs by political group

New and re-elected MEPs – Age of MEPs – Gender of MEPs

27 new MEPs from February 2020

Share of new MEPs by Member State – by political group

Age of MEPs by Member State

Female MEPs in the European Parliament

– Attention paid to Protecting citizens as part of the European Council conclusions 2014-2019

Focus on migration as part of the European Council conclusions

References to different topics related to EU values and democracy raised by EU Heads of State or Government during their Future of Europe debates in the EP 2018-2019

Monitoring by the European Council of the Syrian crisis

Interaction between CARD, PESCO and the EDF

Female MEPs in the European Parliament

Age of MEPs by Member State

Share of new MEPs by Member State – Share of new MEPs by political group

27 new MEPs from February 2020

New and re-elected MEPs – Gender of MEPs

MEPs by political group

Size of political groups in the EP, 13 February 2020

Number of seats in the European Parliament

Size of political groups before and after brexit

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national parties obtaining redistibuted seats after brexit

2018 budget

member states representatives 2018

gender distribution of representatives by member state 2018

gender distribution of representatives by Council configuration 2018

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Elections from 2020 onwards

voting weights in Council

voting system in Council

Legal acts adopted by the Council

Historical overview of Council presidencies

Council meetings

Council configurations

The rotating presidency of the Council

Current membership of the European Council

Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 1 October 2019)

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Age of MEP’s by MS

Strengths of the political groups in each parliamentary term

National parties and political groups in the EP

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Women in the EP and EU national parliaments

Women MEPs by Member State

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Turnout in Member States at EP elections since 1979

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Working with citizens and partners

European Parliament legislative activity, 2004-19

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Overview of high-level office-holders since the 2009 EP elections

Key developments in the debate on the Future of Europe (April 2018 – June 2019)

Policy priorities of the Bratislava, Rome and Sibiu Declarations

Selected changes in the 2019-24 Strategic Agenda compared to earlier drafts

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Overview of topics addressed by each Head of State or Government

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Press Freedom Index (2018 index)

Corruption Perceptions Index (2018 index)

Satisfaction of Europeans with the way democracy works in the EU

Do Europeans feel themselves citizens of the EU?

Women MEPs by Member State (as of 31 March 2019)

Turnout at EP elections (2014)

Women in EP and national parliaments

Trends in turnout at national and EP elections

Figure 2 –Topics planned and actually discussed at Leaders’ meetings and at European Council meetings

Figure 3 – Questions in Leaders’ Agenda notes clustered by topic and by type

Figure 4 – Comparison between Leaders’ notes and European Council conclusions

Figure 5 – Political concerns of EU citizens

Figure 1 – Leaders’ Agenda decision-making process

Participants in Future of Europe debates in the European Parliament

Expected election day

Electoral Threshold

Minimum age of candidates

Number of MEPs and voting system

Voting from abroad

Brexit timeline

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Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 29 March 2019)

New and re-elected MEPs

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Strengths of Political groups

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Women in EP and EU national parliaments

Women MEPs by Member State

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Electoral threshold

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Turnout in Member States at EP elections since 1979

Trends in turnout at national and EP elections

Activity in EP plenary sessions

Working with partners and citizens

European Parliament legislative activity, 2004-2018 – Legislative activities

European Parliament legislative activity, 2004-2018 – Codecision

Number and average length of co-decision procedures

Number of trilogues per year and per committee

Number of legislative and own-initiative reports

EP Bureau

EP Conference of Presidents

Parliamentary committees

Timeline and key milestones of European Council involvement

Turnout in European Parliament elections, 1979-2014

Reservations in CETA by annexe and country

Countries that use internet voting

Figure 6 – UK imports from extra-EU partners for selected agricultural sectors and share of UK imports in total EU imports from non-EU countries for those agricultural sectors (2017)

UK imports from extra-EU partners for selected agricultural sectors and share of UK imports in total EU imports from non-EU countries for those agricultural sectors (2017)

UK trade with other EU Member States (in share of total trade with the EU, 2017)

Tariff rate quote (TRQ) per EU-27 share of in quota usage

Countries that use electronic voting

UK trade with EU-28 and with the rest of the world (2016)

Minimum age of candidates

steps to prepare for the special European Council (Article 50) meeting on 25 November

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Gender distribution of staff by age group

Commissioners, Directorates-General and staff

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Commissioners’ relationships with EP Committees

political affiliation of current EU Heads of State or Government

Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 11 November 2015)

Repartition of UK total trade (2017)

Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 10 June 2015)

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Current membership of the European Council October 2018

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Role of the European Council

Gender and age of members of the European Council

Historical evolution of the European Council

Figure 4 – Citizenship tests in EU-28

Figure 3 – Dual citizenship in naturalisation in EU-28

Presidents of the European Council

Figure 6 – Migrant population in EU-28 (millions)

Figure 1 – Rules of jus soli citizenship in EU-28

Figure 5 – Major modes of involuntary loss of citizenship in EU-28

number of legislative resolutions adopted in plenary each year since 2004

Priority 8: Towards a New Policy on Migration

Figure 2 – Minimum period of residence required for naturalisation in EU-28 (years)

Annual cost of the EP per inhabitant

Parliamentary committees

Voting from abroad

EP Bureau

Expected election day

Number of legislative and own-initiative reports

Trends in turnout at national and EP elections

EP Conference of Presidents

National parties and political groups in the EP

Table 2 – Essential elements of EU negotiating position on the financial settlement

Priority 7: An Area of Justice and Fundamental Rights Based on Mutual Trust

TTIP reading rooms in EU Member States

Size of political groups by MS

EP Size and proportion of political groups

Strengths of Political groups

Proportion of men and women in the EP

Priority 3: A Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy

Timeline of main steps taken in the EU and UK post-referendum, 2016 and early 2017

Previous rounds of negotiations

Timeline

Expectations for more EU involvement – Differences between Member States

Women MEPs by Member State

Working with partners and citizens

Legislation on lobbying

Data source: The European Parliament (9th edition), Corbett, Jacobs, Neville, 2016.

Size of political groups in the European Parliament by Member State (as of 03 May 2017)

Evolution of registrations in the Transparency Register since its launch

National provisions

Number of trilogues per year and per committee

Breakdown of entities registered in the Transparency register

Gap between expectation and current EU involvement

Priority 6: A Reasonable and Balanced Free Trade Agreement with the USA

stage of the co-decision procedure at which the EP and Council reached agreement on individual legislative texts

The College of Commissioners in a historical perspective

Negotiations on a withdrawal agreement

Characteristics of the structures and institutions of science-advice systems

Stage of the co-decision procedure at which the EP and Council reached agreement

Priority 4: A Deeper and Fairer Internal Market with a Strengthened Industrial Base

Priority 10: A Union of Democratic Change

Total Commission staff

Table 1 – Summary of benefits rights for EU citizens in a host Member State under the current EU rules

Table 1 UK participation in certain instruments

Women in EP and EU national parliaments

Proportion of Members in each political group

Article 50 TEU procedure

Timeline towards the UK’s in-out referendum on EU membership

Priority 1: A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment

Register of lobbyists

The Scientific Advice Mechanism

Priority 9: A Stronger Global Actor

Overview of results from studies on TTIP’s economic impact on the EU and the USA

Strengths of the political groups in each parliamentary term

Lobbying regulation in the EU Member States

Step by Step Article 50 of a Member State applicaiton to leave the EU

Priority 2: A Connected Digital Single Market

Impact assessment support to Parliament’s committees throughout the legislative cycle

Size of political group

Number of trilogues per year and per committee

Code of conduct for lobbyists

Petitions to the EP by field

College of Commissioners

Commissioners, portfolios and project teams

TTIP negotiating documents and access

Priority 5: A Deeper and Fairer Economic and Monetary Union

College of Commissioners by age and gender (1999-2014)

Parliamentary committees

Activity in plenary

Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 1 March 2016)

Legislative resolutions adopted in plenary since 2004

Political make-up of the College of Commissioners

Number of staff by Directorate-General

Historical evolution of the number of Commission staff posts

Proposals and legal acts adopted by the Commission

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