The headline on their latest missive is "Full list of new MEPs (names, affiliation and background)". However, what follows is a link to their secretariat from whom one has to request the list. Full datasets will come "later".
VoteWatch draws attention to the fact that, as predicted, over half the MEPs are new. They say: "This means that a lot of the 'institutional memory' of the European Parliament will be lost, i.e. many of the MEPs who are rapporteurs, who have acquired expertise or have played leading roles will be replaced with new figures.". However, this is partly made up for by the return of some UK Liberal Democrats who remember what the parliament was like before 2014. Chris Davies and Bill Newton-Dunn are the most prominent of the returners.
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