The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, will announce, on Friday 10 July, the composition of the three new special committees and the Subcommittee on Taxation, whose responsibilities, numerical composition and mandate were approved by MEPs at the June plenary session (see EUROPE 12510/9).
The special committees – on artificial intelligence, the fight against cancer and foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU, including disinformation – will each bring together 33 MEPs.
Nine of them will be from the EPP, seven from the S&D and five from Renew Europe. The ID, Greens/EFA and ECR groups will take three seats each and the GUE/NGL two. There will also be a non-attached member on the committees.
Groups have until 9 July at 5:00 pm to submit their lists. However, some have already been decided.
The following will sit on the special committee on the fight against cancer:
For the EPP: Bartosz Arłukowicz (Poland), Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé (France), Loucas Fourlas (Cyprus), Cindy Franssen (Belgium), Ewa Kopacz (Poland), Peter Liese (Germany), Marian-Jean Marinescu (Romania), Dolors Montserrat (Spain) and Maria Spyraki (Greece).
For the S&D: Marie Arena (Belgium), Sara Cerdas (Portugal), Tudor Ciuhodaru (Romania), Miriam Dalli (Malta), Johan Danielsson (Sweden), Nicolás González Casares (Spain) and Alessandra Moretti (Italy).
For Renew Europe: Søren Gade (Denmark), Ivars Ijabs (Latvia), Ondřej Knotek (the Czech Republic), Nicolae Ştefănuţă (Romania) and Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (France).
For the Greens/EFA: Petra De Sutter (Belgium), Michèle Rivasi (France) and Bronis Ropė (Lithuania).
The following will sit on the special committee on artificial intelligence:
For the EPP: Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou (Greece), Maria da Graça Carvalho (Portugal), Pilar del Castillo (Spain), Geoffroy Didier (France), Eva Maydell (Bulgaria), Riho Terras (Estonia), Massimiliano Salini (Italy), Edina Tóth (Hungary) and Axel Voss (Germany).
For the S&D: Christel Schaldemose (Denmark), Sven Mikser (Estonia), Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (Finland), Birgit Sippel (Germany), Brando Benifei (Italy), Dan Nica (Romania) and Iban García del Blanco (Spain).
For Renew Europe : Andrus Ansip (Estonia), Svenja Hahn (Germany), Stéphane Séjourné (France), Susana Solís (Spain) and Dragoș Tudorache (Romania).
For the Greens/EFA: Alexandra Geese (Germany), David Cormand (France) and Kim van Sparrentak (the Netherlands).
The following will sit on the special committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the EU, including disinformation:
For the EPP: Sandra Kalniete (Latvia), Sabine Verheyen (Germany), Sunčana Glavak (Croatia), Rareş Bogdan (Romania), Javier Zarzalejos (Spain), Lukas Mandl (Austria), Andrey Kovatchev or Emil Radev (Bulgaria), Vladimír Bilčík (Slovakia) and Jeroen Lenaers (the Netherlands).
For the S&D: Andreas Schieder (Austria), Tonino Picula (Croatia), Raphaël Glucksmann (France), Pierfrancesco Majorino (Italy), Kati Piri (the Netherlands), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Poland) and Juan Fernando López Aguilar (Spain).
For Renew Europe: Anna Júlia Donáth (Hungary), Bart Groothuis (the Netherlands), Nathalie Loiseau (France), Morten Løkkegaard (Denmark) and Maite Pagazaurtundúa (Spain).
For the Greens/EFA: Markéta Gregorová (the Czech Republic), Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (France) and Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (Germany).
The following will sit on the Subcommittee on Taxation (see EUROPE 12521/22):
For the EPP: Markus Ferber (Germany), Othmar Karas (Austria), Lídia Pereira (Portugal) José Manuel Garcia-Margallo (Spain), Luděk Niedermayer (the Czech Republic), Enikő Gyori (Hungary), Christophe Hansen (Luxembourg) and Herbert Dorfmann (Italy).
For the S&D: Paul Tang (the Netherlands), Marek Belka (Poland), Pedro Marques (Portugal), Jonás Fernández (Spain), Aurore Lalucq (France) and Pina Picierno (Italy).
For Renew Europe: Gilles Boyer (France), Martin Hlaváček (the Czech Republic), Billy Kelleher (Ireland) and Dragoș Pîslaru (Romania).
For the Greens/EFA: Sven Giegold (Germany), Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Denmark) and Ernest Urtasun (Spain).
For the ECR: Roberts Zīle (Latvia), Patryk Jaki (Poland) and Eugen Jurzyca (Slovakia).
For the GUE/NGL: Manon Aubry (France) and Martin Schirdewan (Germany). (Original version in French by Agathe Cherki with Sophie Petitjean and Marion Fontana)