On Tuesday 14 March, the European Parliament announced the decision of its president, Antonia Tajani, to hand down unprecedented sanctions to MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke (unaffiliated, Poland) for his attack on gender equality.
The sanctions imposed are as follows: the MEP will forfeit his daily subsistence allowance for 30 days, be suspended from all parliamentary activities for ten days and prohibited from representing the Parliament for one year. The European institution stresses that the...