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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7699
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/end of session

In absence of quorum, Parliament is not able to carry out all votes foreseen - Polemic and accusations of "manoeuvring against Strasbourg"

Strasbourg, 14/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - As they had announced to all their colleagues by e-mail, a few days ago, a group of Dutch MEPs including above all Green member Kathalijne Buitenweg, Liberal Lousewies van der Laan and Socialist Michiel van Hulten, applied their strategy consisting of calling systematically for verification of the quorum before each vote on Friday morning. They justified this approach by the need to constrain the Parliament to make a choice between organising a real...

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