Opposition by a large majority of the EPP Group, together with the traditional rejection by Eurosceptic and Europhobic parties, quashed the idea backed by the constitutional affairs committee (AFCO) to set up a European constituency allowing some 30 MEPs to be elected on transnational lists to the European elections of May 2019.
On Wednesday 7 February, a comfortable majority (368 to 270 with 34 abstentions) of Parliament's plenary session adopted identical amendments by the EPP, ECR,...