25/01/2017 (Agence Europe) – Vicky Ford (ECR, UK) was enthusiastically re-elected as chair of the European Parliament's internal market and consumer protection (IMCO) committee on Wednesday 25 January. Ford, who is moreover the rapporteur for a particularly sensitive text on restricting firearms (see EUROPE 11683), thanked the MEPs for their trust. She hoped this vote would be a positive sign for future Brexit negotiations. The committee's new bureau is dominated by women, with the election of three other women for the vice-chairmanship – Dita Charanzová (ALDE, Czech Republic), Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (EPP, Sweden, re-elected) and Catherine Stihler (S&D, UK, re-elected). There is just one man in the bureau – Nicola Danti (S&D, Italy, re-elected). His re-election is apparently temporary, EUROPE is told, because he has also been chosen as his political group's coordinator. (PH)