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Eight months after being elected as a new Member of the European Parliament from one of the smallest countries in the European Parliament, Alex Agius Saliba was listed by POLITICO Europe as one of the 20 MEPs to watch in 2020.
A lawyer by profession, Agius Saliba’s political career started when he was relatively young. He occupied the role of Secretary General and President of the Forum Zghazagh Laburisti within his country’s Labour Party, for a number of years. Agius Saliba was also a member of the Malta Labour Party’s National Executive committee, a post to which he was elected with the largest number of votes from the party’s delegates in 201
At 30 years of age, he got elected for the first time as an MEP and has since been serving on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL.) and as an S&D Co-ordinator in the Committee on Petitions (PETI). MEP Agius Saliba’s first official position as an S&D spokesperson in the Employment Committee for six different reports included to scrutinise the spending of public money by the European Commission and other EU institutions and agencies. Moreover, his responsibilities will be to report on the performance, financial management and control of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and the European Training Foundation.
More recently, Alex Agius Saliba has been put in charge of the IMCO Committee’s report on the Digital Services Act, a future piece of legislation expected from the new European Commission that will set rules on how platforms such as Google and Facebook police illegal content online.

Brando Benifei, European Federalist, is from La Spezia, Italy, and is the Head of Delegation of the Italian S&D MEPs. His main areas of work are Internal Market and Consumers Protection, Employment and Social Affairs, and Constitutional Affairs. He is rapporteur for the Single Market Program and shadow rapporteur for the European Social Fund Plus. He is active on youth policies, digitalisation and rights of persons with disabilities.
In the previous term, he was responsible for the European Solidarity Corps, for the Post-Arab Spring in the MENA region and for key reports on the social inclusion and integration of refugees into the EU labour market, as well as youth employment policy such as the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative. He was also co-chair of the Youth Intergroup and vice-chair of the Disability Intergroup. In 2018, he received the MEP Award for his work on Employment and Social Affairs issues, for his work on youth unemployment. In 2016, Forbes included him in its annual 30 under-30 most influential in EU Politics list.