03/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament will pay tribute to Simone Veil, the first president on an elected European Parliament in 1979, who died on Friday 30 June (see EUROPE 11820). The previous day, at the opening of the plenary session, Parliament President Antonio Tajani asked MEPs to observe a minute’s silence. He described Simone Veil as “a significant figure of our time who left her mark on European history” and who “led this young parliament in its first...