The European Parliament voted almost unanimously on the CRII investment initiative in response to Coronavirus (683 votes in favour, 1 against and 4 abstentions) and the changes to the European Union Solidarity Fund (671 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions) at the extraordinary plenary session on Thursday 26 March.
The results were not made known until around 10.30 p.m. due to the lengthy and laborious remote voting procedure, which required the signed and scanned ballot papers to...