Member of the European Parliament Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in 2003, Austrian Member of the European Parliament Daniela Raschhofer was conferred a Grand Decoration of Honour?

in 2004, MEP Hans Kronberger unsuccessfully contested his fellow Freedom Party of Austria candidate's election to the European Parliament in the Constitutional Court of Austria?

incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?

in 2003, Member of the European Parliament Marialiese Flemming proposed more than 80 amendments to a European Commission human tissue safety standards proposal?

in 2001, Wolfgang Ilgenfritz, along with several other Members of the European Parliament, declared his personal financial interests online?

before becoming a Member of the European Parliament, Peter Sichrovsky edited a book featuring a collection of interviews with the children of Nazi families?

in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California?

Beata Brookes, Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?

Member of the European Parliament

1 ________, former Prime Minister of France

2 The so-called "dual mandate"—in which an individual is a member of both his or her national parliament and the ________, was officially discouraged by a growing number of political parties and Member States, and is prohibited as of 2009.

3 Members declare their financial interests, which are published annually in a register and available on the ________.

4 Michael Cashman, former British actor (________) and gay rights campaigner.

5 The oldest member is Giovanni Berlinguer, born in 1924; the former communist was present at the signing of the ________ in 1957.

6 ________, Champion Rally driver, elected to second term by a French constituency, rather than his native Finland.

7 ________, former Prime Minister and President of Portugal

8 ________, another leading Northern Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, similarly having held a "triple mandate"

9 Lilli Gruber, high-profile television journalist who joined politics to oppose ________'s high degree of media control

10 Robert Kilroy-Silk, former chat show host maverick who was fired from the ________.

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