The European Parliament meets annually, starting on the second Tuesday in March.
Extraordinary part-sessions may occur if the European Council, the European Commission or a majority of the MEPs request it.
[Source: Article 229 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union]
The EU is a complex organisation with all sorts of things in it, employing many people helping to run it. So there are meetings of officials, ministers, heads of government and heads of state all the time. While the higher level meetings don't happen as often as lower level ones, just 3 or 4 times a year, nearly every day there is some sort of meeting within the EU. .
Every 5 years. The next election will be May 22-24 2014.
The European Parliament meets and debates in public. Its members meet for one week a month Elections take place every five years.
every five years
The Commissioners meet every Wednesday in Brussels. However, during the European Parliament's plenary sessions, their meeting is held on Tuesday in Strasbourg.
The European Parliament meets annually, starting on the second Tuesday in March. Extraordinary part-sessions may occur if the European Council, the European Commission or a majority of the MEPs request it. [Source: Article 229 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union]
They meet in both locations. They meet in both locations.
every decade
Officially Strasbourg in France, but it also sits some of the time in Brussels in Belgium. The Secretariat of European Parliament is based in Luxembourg.
European Parliament was created in 1952.
Brussels in Belgium and Strasbourg in France
Members of European Parliament or MEPs
The Australian Parliament is in Canberra.
the European union parliament decisions is taken jointly by the European parliament and council
European Parliament Council of Ministers European Commission
The President of the European Parliament, currently Martin Shulz