{"id":4376,"date":"2023-09-28T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.electionseuropeennes.eu\/index.php\/quest-ce-que-le-parlement-europeen\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:14:42","slug":"what-is-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/what-is-the-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the European Parliament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1696089262813{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=&#8221;88&#8243; el_class=&#8221;submenu&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2024.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/history\/\">History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>What is the European Parliament?<\/h1>\n<p>The European Parliament is an institution of the European Union, which is dual in nature:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;<\/strong>\u00a0It is the only institution whose members are elected by\u00a0<strong>direct universal suffrage<\/strong>\u00a0for a 5-year term in office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;<\/strong>\u00a0It is the only institution whose\u00a0<strong>powers<\/strong>\u00a0have been\u00a0<strong>extended<\/strong>\u00a0as the treaties have been signed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last European elections took place from 23 to 26 May 2019 in the 27 Member States of the European Union and the United Kingdom, which was still a member at the time. European citizens were called upon to elect the 751 MEPs &#8211; their number decreased to 705 when the UK left the EU &#8211; who will represent them until 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 6 to 9 June 2024, European citizens will elect <strong>720 MEPs<\/strong> to represent them until 2029.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1695774897407{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCdGFibGUlMjBpZCUzRDclMjAlMkYlNUQ=[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1696089745638{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;sous_titre&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>The European Parliament\u2019s position in the institutional running of the European Union<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4366&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/2024.electionseuropeennes.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2018-11-06-1.jpg&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>Source : Fondation Robert Schuman<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1696089262813{margin-top: 50px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=&#8221;88&#8243; el_class=&#8221;submenu&#8221;][vc_column_text] History [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] What is the European Parliament? The European Parliament is an institution of the European Union, which is dual in nature: &gt;\u00a0It is the only institution whose members are elected by\u00a0direct universal suffrage\u00a0for a 5-year term in office. &gt;\u00a0It is the only institution whose\u00a0powers\u00a0have been\u00a0extended\u00a0as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4376\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionseuropeennes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}