PECH Newsletter: Trawler – February 2019 prepared by the Secretariat of the Committee on Fisheries

Following the election of the President, MEPs will choose 14 Vice-Presidents in a secret vote on Wednesday. Candidates need to win the absolute majority of valid votes cast in the first or second ballots to be elected. In the third round, the best-scoring candidates will take up the remaining seats. The election of Vice-Presidents starts at 9.00.

On the invitation of the Friends of a Free Iran in the European Parliament (FOFI), a conference was held on the International Human Rights Day, 10 December, chaired by MEP Gérard Deprez with the participation of dozens of members of European Parliament from various political groups.

"The EU must pursue a comprehensive, ambitious and fully binding trade agreement with an effective safeguard clause, writes Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa"