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Member of the European Parliament

Intergovernmental organization · Legislative branch of government

Member of the European Parliament is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Member of the European Parliament				[sources]
Country	European Union				[sources]
Inception date	1952 · 1958 · 1979				[sources]
Subnational area	European Union				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q27169				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2023-09-08

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Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,369

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

European Parliament Members936

A set of all the members of the European Union's parliament, which are elected per member state.

European Union · EP

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,307

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,074

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: eu-meps-f541a4238c9d6a281e16d7991bec537224918e26

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