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Over half of the committee chairpersons were decided on Thursday, with the rest to follow on Monday (Photo: EUobserver)

New committee chairs set to create bruising encounters

The election of two sectoral champions to the European parliament's industry and environment committees on Thursday (16 July) has set the stage for five years or bruising encounters between the two bodies.

Controversial German MEP Herbert Reul from the centre-right European Peoples Party was elected chairman of the powerful industry, research and energy committee while former environmentalist Jo Leinen, an MEP from the Socialists and Democrats group, takes over the helm of the legislat...

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Over half of the committee chairpersons were decided on Thursday, with the rest to follow on Monday (Photo: EUobserver)

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