Strasbourg, 19/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Adopting a report by Raul Romeva i Rueda (Green/EFA, Spain) on Thursday 18 January by an overwhelming majority (504 to 24 with 34 abstentions), the European Parliament called for tighter controls on European arms exports, and repeated its call for a truly binding arms export scheme.
The European Parliament regrets that no common positions have been adopted by Member States to set up a binding arms export system to prevent EU countries from exporting...