Strasbourg, 20/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - In the plenary session in Strasbourg last Wednesday a large majority of MEPs backed moves to simplify the transfer of sentenced persons, a proposal initially made by Austria, Finland and Sweden. The report by Ionnis Varvitsiotis (EPP-ED, Greece), which was adopted by 484 votes to 53 with 9 abstentions, seeks to simplify the process of transfer of sentenced persons to their state of origin or to the state where they live permanently and where there...