Powerhouse States, Gender Equality And The Environment: Here’s What This EP Analysis Revealed
Malta’s MEPs led 6.3% of negotiations in the European Parliament, a recent Politico analysis revealed.
With the European Parliament term coming to a close, Politico looked through legislative files, voting records and Parliament documents to analyse which parties have been behind the majority of the EU Parliament’s decisions, revealing interesting facts about the union’s legislative chamber.
Interestingly enough, Malta’s MEPs led 6.3% of negotiations, ranking 12th out of 27th on the Parliament’s Busiest Powerbrokers list. This comes despite the island having the smallest number of MEPs, alongside Luxembourg and Cyprus, standing at six.
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Malta is listed just under Austria whose 18 MEPs led a total of 6.4% negotiations. Luxembourg, Finland, and Portugal led the most negotiations respectively, the data shows.
Meanwhile, when it comes to leading and shadowing negotiations, the top five busiest powerhouses were Portugal, Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, and Belgium.
Another interesting finding indicates a somewhat gender equal parliament with around 60% of lawmakers within the Parliament being men, the rest were women.
While the work on employment, social affairs, petitions and women’s rights were mainly dominated by women, men were more active on work related to international trade committee topics and foreign affairs.
Policy areas, such as those relating to the environment, internal market, transport committees, and lawmaker roles were more or less equally divided between men and women.
Politico also found that the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee was a busy one within the past term, responsible for a large amount of legislative bills. The new Green Deal amidst a worldwide pandemic is largely the reason for this.
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