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MEPs call on Council and Commission to play active part in plenary of Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly on 26 and 27 March to focus on consequences of Jericho assault and cartoon ruckus

Strasbourg, 17/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) in Brussels on 26 and 27 March will be the last under the presidency of European Parliament President Josep Borrell, who is to be succeeded by the president of the Tunisian parliament. On Wednesday evening, during a plenary debate, President-in-Office of the EU Council Hans Winkler stressed the importance of the Assembly, which brings together “representatives of the peoples” on...