Special envoy to Strasbourg
Curious plenary session this week in Strasbourg.
It began Monday, at the very end of the day, with a new tribute to David Sassoli, the Social Democratic President of the European Parliament who died last Tuesday.
Emmanuel Macron and several of his counterparts, including the Italian Mario Draghi, were present in the hemicycle.
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If his disappearance still arouses a lot of sadness and if he himself hung on in the hope of returning to Strasbourg to pass the baton to his successor, the page will quickly turn.
MEPs will appoint their new president on Tuesday.
A long-scheduled deadline for this position still called into play at mid-term.
Overall, there is hardly any suspense.
According to the agreements reached in July 2019 between the three largest groups in the Hemicycle - the Christian Democrats of the EPP, the Social Democrats and the Liberals of Renew where the Macronists sit - it is expected that this "top job" will go first to a social democrat…
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