The European Parliament welcomed the EU’s 10 new member states with an official ceremony on Monday, where the flags of the 10 new EU countries were raised alongside those of the former 15 to the sound of the European anthem.
In this last plenary session before the European Parliament elections in June and the first sitting of the enlarged European Parliament, speeches will be held in the 20 EU official languages.
The number of MEPs has now shot up to just short of 800 as the 162 o...
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