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News Archive 2004

12/11/2004
Parliament's Conference of Presidents closes ranks to protect Kovacs

The European Parliament's Conference of Presidents is believed to have banned indicative votes by Committees in the Commissioner Hearings in Strasbourg next week.

During the original hearings, individual Committees held indicative votes on the Commissioner Designate they had cross-examined. Measures are now being taken to stop this from happening again.

Jonathan Evans MEP, Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, said:
"If this decision has been taken by the Conference of Presidents, it is an extraordinary one.
Having gloated over the European Parliament gaining power to express a view, the Conference of Presidents now appears to be closing ranks to protect a controversial former communist, Làszló Kovacs."

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