06/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - By adopting by 598 votes for and 14 abstentions, the report by Spanish Socialist Miguel Angel Martinez, the European Parliament on Tuesday 5 May, adopted the draft recommendation of the European Ombudsman on discriminatory practices at the Commission in its employment of free-lance interpreters. Parliament is calling on the Commission to revise its policy of getting rid of the ban on the recruitment of auxiliary conference interpreters aged over 65. This...