The UK’s leaving the EU at the end of the month has some practical impacts. The UK’s 73 MEPs leave. TMany of their seats will be replaced by MEP’s in waiting in other countries.
First, the Environment Committee goes up ENVI up to 81 seats. That means one in ten MEPs now sit on the Environment Committee. That’s likely to mean that whatever vote they take in the Committee is going to be mirrored in the full Parliament.
Second, the size of some of the political groups’ seats will change. For the environment committee this looks like:
EPP: 21 (+3)
S&D: 17 (+1)
RE: 11 (no change)
Greens/EFA: 8 (no change)
ID: 7 (+2)
ECR: 7 (+1)
GUE: 5 (no change)
NI: 3
The first few votes in February will see if the changes lead to a change in political direction.