The Constitutional Affairs Commission of the EU Parliament, which approved the Lamassoure-Severin Report, proposes the following sharing of seats: Germany 96 MEPs (-3 seats from Nice Treaty), France 74 seats (+2), United Kingdom 73 (+1), Italy 72 (no change). In addition: Spain 54 MEPs, Poland 51, Romania 33, Netherlands 26, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary and Czech Republic 22 seats, Sweden 20, Austria 19, Bulgaria 18, Denmark, Slovakia, Finland 13, Ireland and Lithuania, Latvia 9, Slovenia 8, Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta 6 seats. This proposed sharing "is based explained the two MEPs on the number of residents of each member state, including immigrants with no voting rights", and therefore, "for the first time in the history of Parliament, it assigns a different number of MEPs to Italy, France and the United Kingdom", which currently have 78 and would have had 72 under the Nice Treaty. The Constitutional Affairs Commission actually rejected the amendments submitted by the Italian MEPs from all political groups asking to keep into account the number of "citizens" of every member state instead of the resident "population".
