European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs

The Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET, after the French name ‘Affaires étrangères’), previously called Political Affairs, is a committee of the European Parliament. Composed of 75 members and 74 substitutes, it has two subcommittees: the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).

Foreign affairs is not an area that Parliament has much power over, yet attracts a high proportion of the more well-known and influential MEPs given the prestige of the area.

Members

For an up-to-date list of members, see: the European Parliament website: AFET members

Chairpersons

Term	Chairperson	Group	State
July 1979 – April 1980	Emilio Colombo	EPP	Italy
April 1980 – July 1984	Mariano Rumor	EPP	Italy
July 1984 – January 1987	Roberto Formigoni	EPP	Italy
January 1987 – July 1989	Sergio Ercini	EPP	Italy
July 1989 – February 1991	Giovanni Goria	EPP	Italy
February 1991 – January 1992	Maria Luisa Cassanmagnago	EPP	Italy
January 1992 – July 1994	Enrique Barón	SOC	Spain
July 1994 – January 1997	Abel Matutes	EPP	Spain
January 1997 – July 1999	Tom Spencer	EPP	UK
July 1999 – February 2007	Elmar Brok	EPP	Germany
February 2007 – July 2009	Jacek Saryusz-Wolski	EPP	Poland
July 2009 – December 2012	Gabriele Albertini	EPP	Italy
December 2012 – 18 January 2017	Elmar Brok	EPP	Germany
24 January 2017 –	David McAllister	EPP	Germany
Source (1979–2007): Corbett, Richard; Jacobs, Francis; Shackleton, Michael (2007), The European Parliament (7th ed.), London: John Harper, p. 151, ISBN 978-0-9551144-7-2

Relations with Central Asia

The Committee on Foreign Affairs has established strong cooperation with Kazakhstan, Central Asia's most prosperous country, through regular visits and meetings. The European Parliament and Kazakhstan hold annual meetings of Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.[1]

References

1. "Kazakhstan - EU cooperation". mfa.gov.kz.

External links

• Official webpage