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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9944

17 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/minorities

16/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - A novelty at the European Parliament. Adam Kosa (EPP, Hungary) is the first MEP who, because of his deafness, used sign language to speak during the plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 15 July. Opening the very first debate of the new Parliament, Mr Kosa, whose comments in sign language were pronounced verbally by a colleague, called for the right of minorities in Europe to express themselves in their own language. He defended a “Europe of...

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