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The Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET, after the French name "Affaires étrangères"), previously called Political Affairs, is a committee of the European Parliament. 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^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Members

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

[edit] 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 Baron Crespo	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 -	Gabriele Albertini	EPP	Italy
Source (79-07): Corbett, Richard; Francis Jacobs; Michael Shackleton (2007), The European Parliament (7 ed.), London: John Harper, p. 151, ISBN 978-0-9661144-7-2

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