European Parliament Members

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

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected for a five-year term through a European-wide election conducted in each member state. Member states have different contingents of MEPs based on their voting population. MEPs are organised into groups, which are formed from the representatives of national parties aligned with that group.

Data overview

Entities:
Total3,070
Searchable934
Targets717
Entity types:
People717
Organizations216
Positions1
Countries:
28 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:European Parliament (EP) · European Union

The European Parliament is the legislative branch of the European Union. Together with the Council of the European Union and the European Commission it devises and adopts European legislation.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.europarl.europa.eu
Source data:www.europarl.europa.eu · XML
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: weekly
Last processed:2026-05-16 02:14:02 · v. 20260516021402-cab
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities1.1 MB
names.txtTarget names text file17.23 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format696.16 KB
source.xmlSource data170.73 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON1.81 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV115.33 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Marie-Sophie LanigPersonGermany · European Union
Georgia TramacerePersonEuropean Union · Italy
Mieke AndriesePersonEuropean Union · Netherlands
Antonín StaněkPersonCzechia
Martin GüntherPersonGermany
Jaroslav KnotPersonEuropean Union · Czechia
Willemien Koning-HoevePersonNetherlands · European Union
Tomáš KubínPersonCzechia
Christophe BayPersonFrance · European Union
Séverine WerbrouckPersonFrance · European Union
Pierre-Romain ThionnetPersonFrance · European Union
Rima HassanPersonPalestine · France · European Union
Sibylle BergPersonGermany · Switzerland · East Germany · European Union
Gilles PennellePersonEuropean Union · France
Vilis KrištopansPersonSoviet Union · Latvia · European Union
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