That sentiment was echoed by the Dutch MEP Liesje Schreinemacher.

荷兰欧洲议会议员露莎·施莱因马赫也表达了同样的观点。

Would MEPs really dare be so bold, not to say insolent?

但欧洲议会议员们是否敢于（而并不过分地）行使否决权呢？

Ms Kaili, a Socialist MEP from Greece, denies wrongdoing, as does Qatar.

来自希腊的社会党欧洲议会议员卡莉否认自己存在不当行为，卡塔尔也否认存在不当行为。

Many MEPs will come under strong pressure from national capitals.

欧洲议会的众多议会还面临国内政府的巨大压力。

The Italian MEP Carlo Calenda says the Italians have been disappointed with the European Union.

意大利欧洲议会议员卡洛·卡伦达说，意大利人对欧盟感到失望。

A Polish MEP Robert Biedron has called for tougher sanctions than those currently agreed by the block.

波兰欧洲议会议员罗伯特·比尔登呼吁欧盟实施比当前更严厉的制裁。

The European Parliament's call to avoid a no-deal Brexit was endorsed by a large but unsurprising majority of MEPs.

欧洲议会关于避免无协议脱欧的呼声得到了多数欧洲议员的支持，这并不令人意外。

Little-known MEPs can scarcely claim to command greater popular allegiance than national political leaders, unloved as some may be.

相比各国首脑（尽管其中部分缺乏人气），欧洲议会的无名小卒始终难以拉拢民众。

Presently, it has 751 Members of the European Parliament, or MEPs, from 28 member states.

目前，它拥有来自 28 个成员国的 751 名欧洲议会议员 (MEP)。

In some countries like Italy, MEPs represent a specific region.

在意大利等一些国家， 欧洲议会议员代表一个特定的地区。

The number of MEPs assigned to each country varies and corresponds to the country’s population.

分配给每个国家的欧洲议会议员的数量各不相同， 并与该国的人口相对应。

So now let’s get into how all of these MEPs are actually elected.

那么现在让我们来看看所有这些欧洲议会议员实际上是如何选举出来的。

“The Americans said no taxation without representation. But in the EU we have representation without taxation, ” complains Sylvie Goulard, a French liberal MEP.

一位法籍自由党团议员Sylvie Goulard予以支持道：“美国人说过‘无代表不纳税’，而目前欧盟则是‘有代表不纳税’。”

MEPs were outraged when EU leaders decided, for the first time, to trim the budget for 2014-20 by 3% from the previous period.

而本次欧盟财政问题上，各国首脑首次决定从今期开始削减2014年至2020年财政预算的3%后，欧洲议会议会十分震怒。

So if a party gets 20% of votes in a country allocated 10 MEPs, the two top people on the party’s list will become Members of the European Parliament.

因此，如果一个政党在一个分配了10名欧洲议会议员的国家中获得20%的选票，该党名单上的两个最高人物将成为欧洲议会议员。

A former MEP use a key suspect in a European Parliament corruption scandal alleged to involve Qatar and Morocco has agreed to help prosecutors in Brussels in return for a reduced prison sentence.

一名前欧洲议会议员--涉嫌牵涉卡塔尔和摩洛哥的欧洲议会腐败丑闻中的重要嫌疑人，同意帮助布鲁塞尔的检察官，以此换取减刑。

The 12 MEPs, all working on EU legislation on the technology, called on US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to convene the meeting, and said AI firms should be more responsible.

12名欧洲议会议员都在研究欧盟关于该技术的立法，他们呼吁美国总统拜登和欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯·德莱恩召开会议，并表示人工智能公司更应该负责任。