Back رئيس البرلمان الأوروبي Arabic Старшыня Еўрапейскага парламента Byelorussian Председател на Европейския парламент Bulgarian President del Parlament Europeu Catalan سەرۆکی پەرلەمانی ئەورووپا CKB Předseda Evropského parlamentu Czech Formand for Europa-Parlamentet Danish Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments German Πρόεδρος του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου Greek President of the European Parliament English
| President of the European Parliament | |
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| European Parliament | |
| Style | President[1] |
| Status | Presiding officer |
| Member of | European Parliament |
| Residence | Louise Weiss building |
| Seat | Strasbourg, France |
| Appointer | European Parliament |
| Term length | 2.5 years, renewable once |
| Inaugural holder | Paul Henri Spaak / Robert Schuman[2] |
| Formation | 1952 / 1958[2] |
| Deputy | Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament |
| Website | europarl.europa.eu |
The President of the European Parliament is the head of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President has to sign that EU laws and the EU budget can become valid.
Presidents serve two-and-a-half-year terms. This time is normally divided between the two major political parties of the European Parliament. There have been twenty-eight Presidents, since the Parliament was created in 1952. Thirteen of whom have served since the first Parliamentary election in 1979. Two Presidents have been women and most have come from the older member states.
- ↑ English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission (PDF) (8 ed.). European Commission. October 2019. p. 119. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parliament began either in 1952 with the Common Assembly or 1958 with the Parliamentary Assembly.