The feeling in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (27 October) was of a democratic institution sitting back to enjoy the results of having flexed its muscles.
Amid the flush of success, there was also a mild sense of disbelief: the 732-member parliament, with its disparate political groups from around the EU, had taken on the member states and won.
A combined front of socialists, greens, communists and many Liberals - though the front was not put to a test by vote ...
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