“I will no longer be an MEP as of 2 June”, said Eric Andrieu (S&D, French) speaking to some journalists on Wednesday 29 March. He is leaving the European Parliament after 11 years.
He explained that he was against holding multiple mandates, although he did not know what activity he intended to carry out after retirement. Mr Andrieu prefers to stop a year before the end of the mandate “to prepare the succession, the transition”.
In 2012, when he joined the European Parliament to...