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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8129

16 January 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/presidency
Pat Cox elected President of European Parliament in third round

Strasbourg, 15/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Irish President of the Liberal group, Pat Cox, was elected President of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 15 January for the next two and a half years (until the June 2004 European elections). Pat Cox was explicitly supported by the EPP-ED group and implicitly by some of the Greens, and won the vote in the third ballot by 298 to 237 for the Socialist candidate, British Labour MEP David Martin, and 33 for the President of the Europe of...

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