Turns out I should have written seventhirtysix.eu, although if Lisbon passes it will eventually become sevenfiftyone.eu
If Lisbon doesn't pass, it could also become sevenfortynine.eu, if my guess for Croatia's seats is right.
or something... lots of domains to register, no wonder no one is interested.
(And to explain, the referral was to fivethirtyeight.com, a website that registed millions of visits during the 2008 US Presidential elections... 538 is the number of electors in the Electoral College. The number of European Parliament seats is now 785, but that number will change, as written up above)
Lisbon could pass in the fall of 2009, when the Irish are asked again.
My prediction is that it will fail again.
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DJ Nozem,
Add the possible accession of Iceland and think if the future independent Greenland - the only part of the EC/EU to secede to date - has a change of heart...
The options are nearly endless for the exact numbers of MEPs in years to come.
I haven't given myself time to study how legal the European Council manipulation of the number of MEPs to be elected in June 2009 is, but some doubts linger.
Thank you for your postings in 2008 and a happy new year 2009!
Thanks Ralph.
The expansion from 732 (the Nice number) to 736 seats was attached to the accession treaty for Rumania and Bulgaria. Theoretically, when there is an accession during a legislative period, the number of seats will be temporarily expanded to account for the number of MEPs the acceding country would get according to the number of its population.
Croatia is as big as Ireland in that sense, so it should also get 13 MEPs; Iceland would get about what Luxembourg has (6), etcetera.
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