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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9941

14 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/groups
50.14% new blood in European Parliament

Brussels, 13/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - The latest figures, released by the EP on the eve of the first plenary session of the new European Parliament, reveal that 50.14% of MEPs did not sit in the previous Parliament. The countries with the highest percentages of new MEPs are Lithuania (75%), followed by Italy (70.83% - although 12 of those elected have still not officially confirmed that they will take their seats), then Portugal and Greece (68.18% each), Estonia and Cyprus (66.67% each)...

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