Without a shadow of doubt, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 will go down in history as a red-letter day for the European Parliament. It was the first major session adeptly chaired by Roberta Matsola, the new President who had been elected the day before in the first round of votes by a comfortable majority (see EUROPE B12871A1), pulling in the support of most MEPs from the three largest political groups, plus the ‘Conservatives and Reformists’ (ECR), whose candidate pulled out at the last...