Brussels, 20/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 20 February, MEPs on the civil liberties committee (LIBE) at the European Parliament finally agreed, by 36 votes to 10 (and 3 abstentions), to go along with the Council of the EU and designate Budapest the next centre of CEPOL, the European Police College, after it was cast out of its British premises in Bramshill. The MEPs were not originally very enthusiastic and were critical that the Council had had left them no other choice. They regretted there being only one candidate proposed to the committee, although six other countries (Ireland, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Finland) had shown an interest in providing the premises for the agency, said the committee in a press release. CEPOL has to leave the United Kingdom by the end of the year. MEPs called on the Commission to review this decision to make Budapest the centre in 2019 and look at the benefits of alternative solutions. MEPs said that the United Kingdom, which is taking back the premises to put them on sale, has to incur some of the costs of transferring the centre to Budapest. (SP/transl.fl)