{"id":3180,"date":"2015-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/portugal-ireland-beat-germany-on-ep-top-jobs\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:25:25","slug":"portugal-ireland-beat-germany-on-ep-top-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/cs\/portugal-ireland-beat-germany-on-ep-top-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal, Ireland beat Germany on EP top jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Total numbers show that Germany tends to dominate.<\/p>\n
Allison Mandry, from the Bruegel think tank,\u00a0recently wrote<\/a>\u00a0about it.<\/p>\n Charles de Marcilly, from the Robert Schuman Foundation,\u00a0has also studied<\/a>\u00a0the distribution of important posts in the European Parliament\u2019s seventh tenure.<\/p>\n But total numbers tell just part of the story.<\/p>\n To compare success rates more accurately, you should consider the countries\u2019 relative size.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking at the EU parliament, for instance, you should consider how many MEPs any given state posts to Brussels.<\/p>\n Following last May\u2019s elections, MEPs competed for influential jobs in the bureau, in committees, in delegations, and in their own political groups in the assembly’s eighth tenure.<\/p>\n Committees and delegations are led by chairmen and vice-chairmen. Political groups designate treasurers and committee co-ordinators, among other posts.<\/p>\n The full list amounts to 487, more or less, influential positions up for grabs.<\/p>\n Looking at the bureau, the EU assembly\u2019s administration, most states aren\u2019t represented due to the small number of jobs available: one president, 14 vice-presidents, and five so-called quaestors.<\/p>\n The president, Martin Schulz, is from Germany, which posts 96 MEPs.<\/p>\n But if you consider relative size, Ireland (which elects just 11 MEPs and has one bureau vice-president) is the most successful. It\u2019s followed by Finland (13 MEPs, one vice-president), then Romania (32 MEPs, two vice-presidents).<\/p>\n If you do the same maths on committees and sub-committees, the Czech Republic (21 MEPs, one committee chairman, and seven vice-chairmen) is top.<\/p>\n Tiny Malta is second. It has six MEPs and two vice-chairmen. Poland, a large country, but with four chairmen and eight vice chairmen, is third.<\/p>\n In delegations, Lithuania (one chairman and two vice-chairmen) comes top.<\/p>\n Croatia (two chairs and two vice-chairs), the newest EU state, is second. Latvia and Slovenia (one chair and two vice-chairs each) share third place.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Estonia is top in political groups.<\/p>\n Like Malta, it has just six MEPs, but two are group vice-chairs and two are committee co-ordinators.<\/p>\n Belgian deputies also did well (one chairman, a co-chairman, a vice-chairman, and five co-ordinators). The Netherlands came third, with two vice-chairmen, a treasurer, and 10 co-ordinators.<\/p>\n If you put all the EU parliament jobs into one hat, you get\u00a0another surprising result<\/a>.<\/p>\n Portgual comes top overall, followed by Germany, and Sweden. The least successful are Cyprus, Malta, and Ireland.<\/p>\n The relative-size model complicates the prevailing wisdom that old and big EU members dominate the institutions.<\/p>\n In fact, EU countries which joined after 2004 achieved strong results.<\/p>\n There\u2019s at least one post-2004 country in the top three in all the parliament categories. Post-2004 members come top in committees and delegations.<\/p>\n The overall picture is more familiar.<\/p>\n There are six post-2004 states in the parliament\u2019s overall top 10, but none in the top three. Three out of the four overall worst-ranked are post-2004 members.<\/p>\n Northerly EU states also did well overall.<\/p>\n Germany has a strong presence. The UK is slightly above-average, in 11th place.<\/p>\n But Italy is below average and France did very badly due to the far-right National Front party, which fields 20 of the 64 French MEPs, but which, until June, wasn\u2019t part of a group.<\/p>\n \u010cl\u00e1nek byl 26.8.2015 vyd\u00e1n na port\u00e1lu euobserver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nIreland<\/h2>\n
Portugal<\/h2>\n