The European Parliament, sitting in Strasbourg on Thursday 6 July, approved the setting up of a special committee on terrorism, as the EPP and ALDE Groups had called for some weeks ago. The mandate of the committee was adopted by 527 votes to 73, with 36 abstentions.
Despite resistance from the S&D Group, the Conference of the Presidents decided on Wednesday 5 July that the committee should be established.
The role of the special committee, which is not a committee of inquiry, will be to...