After nearly 30 years of shuttling between Strasbourg and Brussels, Francis Wurtz is leaving the European Parliament. On Wednesday 6 May 2009, Wurtz, who is a French Communist and chair of the United European Left Group, had a send-off from his peers at a ceremony attended by the president of the European Parliament, German Social Democrat Hans-Gert Pöttering, the chair of the EPP-ED Group, Joseph Daul of the Alsace region of France, former Spanish EP president Josep Borrell, and many MEPs...