Zeventien voorzitters van delegaties gekozen in Straatsburg (en)
Members of the EP delegations through which MEPs conduct regular dialogues with national and regional parliaments of non-EU countries began electing their chairs and vice-chairs in Strasbourg this week, with seventeen of the forty parliamentary delegations holding their constituent meetings on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 September.
The following delegations elected their officers in Strasbourg:
- ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific countries)
chair : Louis Michel (ALDE, BE)
1 vice-chair : Kader Arif (S&D, FR)
2 vice-chair : Peter Stastny (EPP, SK)
3 vice-chair : Elie Hoarau (GUE/NGl, FR)
4 vice-chair : Christa Klass (EPP, DE)
5 vice-chair : James Nicholson (ECR, UK)
6 vice-chair : Linda McAvan (S&D, UK)
7 vice-chair : Licia Ronzulli (EPP, IT)
8 vice-chair : Charles Goerens (ALDE, LU)
9 vice-chair : Francesco Speroni (EFD)
10 vice-chair : Zuzana Roithová (EPP, CZ)
11 vice-chair : Miroslav Ouzky (ECR, CZ)
12 vice-chair : Michele Rivasi (Greens/EFA, FR)
- Eurolat (Latin American countries)
chair : Ignacio Salafranca (EPP, ES)
1 vice-chair : Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos (S&D, PT)
2 vice-chair: Gianni Vattimo (ALDE, IT)
3 vice-chair : Ricardo Cortes Lastra (S&D, ES)
4 vice-chair: Amalio Sartori (EPP, IT)
5 vice-chair : Tomasz Piotr Poreba (ECR, PL)
6 vice-chair : Norbert Glante (S&D, DE)
7 vice-chair : Willy Meyer (GUE/NGL, ES)
- Andean Community
chair : José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (EPP, ES)
1 vice-chair : Dacania Octavia Sarbu (S&D, RO)
2 vice-chair : Izaskun Bilbao (ALDE, ES)
- Central America
chair : Emine Bozkurt (S&D, NL)
1 vice-chair : Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo (EPP, ES)
2 vice-chair : Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL, PT)
- Mercosur
chair : Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo (S&D, ES)
1 vice-chair : decision postponed (EPP, PT)
2 vice-chair : Véronique Mathieu (EPP, FR)
- Mexico
chair : Ramon Jáuregui (S&D, ES)
1 vice-chair : Santiago Fisas Ayxela (EPP, ES)
2 vice-chair : Markus Ferber (EPP, DE)
- Chile
chair : Maria Paloma Muñiz De Urquiza (S&D, ES)
1 vice-chair : Luis de Grandes Pascual (EPP, ES)
2 vice-chair : decision postponed (EPP, GR)
- Maghreb
chair : Pier Antonio Panzeri (S-D, IT)
1 vice-chair : Ernst Strasser (EPP, AT)
2 vice-chair : Robert Rochefort (ALDE, FR)
- Mashreq
chair : Mário David (EPP, PT)
1 vice-chair : Marisa Matias (GUE/NGL, PT)
2 vice-chair : Said El Khadraoui (S&D, BE)
- United States
chair : Elmar Brok (EPP, DE)
1 vice-chair : Baroness Sarah Ludford (ALDE, UK)
2 vice-chair : Niki Tzavela (EFD, EL)
- Palestinian Legislative Council
chair : Proinsias De Rossa (S&D, IE)
1 vice-chair : Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (GUE/NGL, CY)
2 vice-chair : Caroline Lucas (Greens/EFA, UK)
- Israel
chair : Bastiaan Belder (EFD, NL)
1 vice-chair : Magdi Cristiano Allam (EPP, IT)
2 vice-chair : Olga Sehnalova (S&D, CZ)
- Turkey
chair : Hélène Flautre (Greens/EFA, FR)
1 vice-chair : Maria Eleni Koppa (S&D, EL)
2 vice-chair : Georgios Koumoutsakos (EPP, GR)
- Croatia
chair : Gunnar Hökmark (EPP, SV)
1 vice-chair : Lena Ek (ALDE, SV)
2 vice-chair : Tanja Fajon (S&D, SL)
- Countries of south-east Europe (western Balkans)
chair : Eduard Kukan (EPP, SL)
1 vice-chair: Jelko Kacin (ALDE, SL)
2 vice-chair: Victor Bostinaru (S&D, RO)
- Korean peninsula
chair : Christian Ehler (EPP, DE)
1 vice-chair : Gerald Haefner (Greens/EFA, DE)
2 vice-chair : Anna Rosbach (EFD, DK)
- Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and EEA countries
chair : Pat Gallagher (ALDE, IR)
1 vice-chair : Asa Westlund (S&D, SE)
2 vice-chair : Thomas Ulmer (EPP, DE)
The new multilateral Assembly with the Eastern Partnership countries ("Euronest") and the Euromed Assembly are both due to elect their chairs on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 September respectively). The chairs of the delegations for China, India, Belarus, Moldova and Iraq should be chosen in the same week.