The MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) voted against the allocation of an own-initiative report on the topic ‘Arab Peninsula, challenges and prospects’ to the ‘Identity and Democracy’ (ID) group.
While the Coordinators’ meeting on 4 May had indeed granted the report to ID, the S&D group asked that this decision be put to a vote. Twenty-six Members voted in favour, 33 against and 12 abstained. While ID and the overwhelming majority of the EPP...