In Brussels on Tuesday 21 March, the committee on budgets of the European Parliament, which is chaired by Jean Arthuis (ALDE, France), finally finished voting on the composition of its bureau.
At the end of January 2017, the elections were postponed as there were no female candidates (see EUROPE 11711), as Parliament's internal rules do not permit a bureau to be made up entirely of persons of the same sex. The first deputy chair, Petri Sarvamaa (EPP, Finland) had already been appointed at...