Brussels, 11/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 15 May the European Union will be taking part in an observation mission at the Ethiopian parliamentary elections (universal suffrage) for electing the members of the federal parliament and eight regional parliaments. With 160 observers in total (the first of them have been in the field since the middle of March), the EU delegation, led by Ana Maria Gomes MEP (PES, Portugal), forms more than half of the international observers, invited for the first time by the current system in place for preparing the election. Nine MEPs will take part in the mission on 12-17 May led by Anders Wijkman (EPP-ED, Sweden).