An obscure working group of MEPs and civil servants spent months final 12 months deliberating methods to, er, intercourse up the Parliament‘s plenary chamber to make it a extra engaging atmosphere for MEPs, residents and journalists.
The brand new doc, which isn’t but public, was despatched by the heads of the political teams — who accepted a sweeping set of institutional reforms in December — to the constitutional affairs committee, the place lawmakers resolve on the functioning of the establishment.
However the rule tweak on attendance requires “additional deliberation,” in keeping with a letter seen by POLITICO and despatched to constitutional affairs committee boss Salvatore de Meo by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, who instigated the reforms.
Based on the deliberate new rule, 38 MEPs must request a test on what number of of their colleagues are current. MEPs are nonetheless vacillating between making it obligatory or non-compulsory for the speaker presiding over the controversy to finish it if not sufficient lawmakers are current.
An identical rule already applies to votes.
MEPs aren’t the one ones avoiding the hemicycle. Fee President Ursula von der Leyen has established a sample of constructing a speech, listening to solely essentially the most senior MEPs, after which departing the chamber, leaving one other member of her Fee to sit down by means of the remainder of the controversy.
Camille Gijs contributed reporting.
