{"id":8772,"date":"2026-03-08T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/nicht-kategorisiert\/about-the-european-parliament\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:48:18","slug":"about-the-european-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/suggestions\/about-the-european-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"About the European Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About the European Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union is a representative democracy. This means that you elect a representative \u2013 known as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) \u2013 who then represents your views in the parliament as part of their party affiliation. <\/p>\n<p>This raises a few important questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many citizens does a MEP represent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament is the <strong>largest multinational parliament in the world<\/strong>: its <strong>705 members from 27 nations <\/strong>currently represent around <strong>450 million citizens<\/strong>. This means that each member represents approximately <strong>634,000 people. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>How many members does each EU member state have \u2013 the same number or different numbers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What political affiliations do the members of the European Parliament have?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the European Parliament The European Union is a representative democracy. This means that you elect a representative \u2013 known as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) \u2013 who then represents your views in the parliament as part of their party affiliation. This raises a few important questions: How many citizens does a MEP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,84],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[44],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-04-democracy","category-suggestions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werteweg.euw.edit-hosting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}