Guide
How many MEPs does each country have?
The 2024–2029 European Parliament has 720 seats, distributed among the 27 EU member states - from 96 for Germany down to 6 each for Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta. Seats follow "degressive proportionality": bigger countries get more seats, but smaller countries get more seats per inhabitant. Source: European Parliament.
Seats by country - and how much they declare
| Country | MEPs | Meetings per MEP |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 96 | 146 |
| France | 81 | 98 |
| Italy | 76 | 64 |
| Spain | 61 | 103 |
| Poland | 53 | 32 |
| Romania | 33 | 46 |
| Netherlands | 31 | 151 |
| Belgium | 22 | 151 |
| Hungary | 21 | 55 |
| Czechia | 21 | 80 |
| Sweden | 21 | 145 |
| Portugal | 21 | 61 |
| Greece | 21 | 26 |
| Austria | 20 | 119 |
| Bulgaria | 17 | 75 |
| Finland | 15 | 365 |
| Denmark | 15 | 192 |
| Slovakia | 15 | 46 |
| Ireland | 14 | 190 |
| Croatia | 12 | 92 |
| Lithuania | 11 | 55 |
| Slovenia | 9 | 63 |
| Latvia | 9 | 37 |
| Estonia | 7 | 38 |
| Luxembourg | 6 | 141 |
| Malta | 6 | 99 |
| Cyprus | 6 | 36 |
MEPs counts the 720 members sitting in the current data. Meetings per MEP is the average number of lobby meetings each of a country's sitting members has declared in the current term, computed by this site from the official Article 7 declarations.
Related questions
- How often are MEPs elected? Every five years; the next European election is in 2029.
- Who are my MEPs? See the guide or jump straight to the directory.