MEPs to back ambitious common corporate tax plan
By Ian Wishart - 12.04.2012 / 16:56 CET
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On the agenda
The Parliamentary question of next week is whether MEPs can steel themselves to stay in Strasbourg until Friday (20 April). When the Parliament's managers reformed the structure of plenary weeks, they did away with the need to be in Strasbourg on a Friday. Sessions now usually start on Monday evening and end on Thursday.
But the start of next week's session is being delayed to Tuesday evening (17 April) because Easter is celebrated in the Orthodox churches of Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania on Sunday (15 April). The session will continue to lunchtime on Friday. The weekly meeting of the European commissioners, which usually takes place on a Tuesday afternoon during a Strasbourg week, has been put back to Wednesday afternoon (18 April). At midday on Wednesday, the Parliament will be addressed by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
MEPs are scheduled to vote on an additional €1.3 billion in funding for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) for 2012-13, following approval by the Council of Ministers on 27 March, and on association agreements between the EU and Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Parliament will also debate biometric passports, women and climate change, and the modernisation of Europe's higher education systems.
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