THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/committee chairs/quaestors

Michel Rocard chairs Culture Committee, Giorgio Napolitano remains at head of Constitutional Affairs - Laborious election of Quaestors

Strasbourg, 17/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - After two days of bitter discussions in Strasbourg ,French Socialist Michel Rocard, outgoing chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Social Affairs, took a decision on Wednesday allowing for the unity of the Socialists to be maintained in a situation that risked leading to a crisis within the Group. Indeed, the former French Prime Minister, who lost the chair of the Committee on Social Affairs to a Green during the redistribution of posts...