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  • Mr Alex Agius Saliba
    MEP, EIF Member
    Rapporteur for the Digital Services Act

ABOUT

Alex Agius Saliba is a Maltese politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 on behalf of the Labour Party.

He has since been serving on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the Parliament's delegations to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. Agius Saliba was also appointed as co-chair of the MEP Alliance for Mental Health and is a member of the MEPs Against Cancer group. He was also elected as Vice-President of the Biodiversity, Hunting, Countryside Intergroup.

Agius Saliba was also appointed as rapporteur of the Digital Services Act by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee within the European Parliament.

In January 2020, Alex Agius Saliba was listed by Politico Europe as one of the 20 MEPs to watch during 2020. A few weeks later he was also shortlisted for The Parliament Magazine MEP Awards 2020 in the category of Internal Market and Consumer Protection, just 8 months after being elected for the first time as a Member of the European Parliament.