During the plenary session in Strasbourg from Monday 5 to Thursday 8 February, MEPs will debate and vote on what is to happen to the 73 seats currently occupied by UK members following the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU, scheduled to take place before the European elections in May 2019.
Of these seats, 27 are expected to be re-allocated among the member states which are felt to have too few seats for the size of their populations. MEPs would like to see 27 of the remaining 46...