The members of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) elected their bureau at a constitutive meeting on Tuesday 23 July.
By acclamation, they elected German Christian Democrat Sven Simon as Chair for a two-and-a-half-year mandate. Wishing to follow the example of his predecessor, Salvatore De Meo (EPP, Italian), he promised to do his utmost to “be impartial and effective” and to ensure that the parliamentary committee becomes a place where MEPs can think about the institutional...