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This is an absurdly bad take. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/9/plenary-sessions https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/9/plenary-session... >
by rendaw 2mo ago
This is an absurdly bad take.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/9/plenary-sessions https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/9/plenary-session...
> Plenary sessions of Parliament take place 12 times per year in Strasbourg and last four days
There are 48 days in sessions over a year. You're saying that it's too much to ask MEPs not to take holidays during those 48 days? Am I missing something here?
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- gmueckl 2mo agoMost of the work of an MP is not sitting in plenary sessions looking bored. The normally important bits are in-between - committee and office work. This specific event here is an example of a plenary session suddenly being made extremely important by a procedural trick.
- xienze 2mo agoBut it _was_ a plenary session, was it not? One of only 48? That someone could easily avoid scheduling a vacation during?
- rowanG077 2mo agoDo you those 48 days are the total number of working hours these MEPs have? Of course not. Something always needs to give when going on vacation. And usually missing a a plenary session is not weird or the end of the world. The problem here is that in this case the rules were abused.