Centre-right MEPs from the biggest political group in the European Parliament have elected a new chairman - Joseph Daul from the UMP party of French president Jacques Chirac.
Mr Daul (59) received the most votes in a secret vote held on Tuesday (9 January) by members of the 277-strong group, beating three other candidates.
Unlike the previous chairman, Hans-Gert Poettering, who has been an MEP ever since the first popular vote to the EU assembly in 1979, Mr Daul has been a Europea...
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