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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9582

18 January 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/votes
Good use of democratic procedures

Strasbourg, 17/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Taking the floor after the vote on Wednesday 16 January, British Labour member Robert Evans was highly critical of the systematic use of Roll Call Vote (RCV) since the beginning of this plenary session. This electronic voting system costs €400 a vote, Mr Evans said. A tidy sum, calculated, he says, by the services of the Parliament secretariat taking into account the amount of paper and printing required for publishing the results, which are then...

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