12/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - By 95 votes to 90, with 8 abstentions, at the start of Monday's session, MEPs rejected a call from the EPP-ED group to postpone the vote on a resolution on Bulgaria and Romania scheduled for this week. Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, felt in was not appropriate to move to such a vote when the European Commission report would not be presented until October. The Austrian deputy leader of the PES group, Hannes Swoboda, said he was very surprised by this change of stance, deeming that the vote would show what was what prior to the accession of the two countries in 2007 and that it was important for the Parliament to give its opinion before the heads of state and of government summit.