Brussels, 27/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament is preparing to grant discharge (on 23 April) to its president on the implementation of operational expenditure for the year 2006. With the adoption on Wednesday 26 March of the report by Javier Pomes Ruiz (EPP-ED, Spain), the budgetary control committee calls for work to be continued with a view to putting in place a statute for MEPs' assistants by the beginning of the next EP's mandate (July 2009). This requirement is now...