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Statewatch News online: New chair for EP committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights
28 March 2012
New chair for European
Parliament's Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights
The election of Pat Cox (ELDR, Liberal and radical group) to
the Presidency of the European Parliament has led to a change
in the chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Citizens'
Freedoms and Rights. Previous chair Graham Watson (ELDR) has
become leader of the ELDR group in the parliament. The new chair
of the Committee is to be Ana Palacio, a Spanish MEP from the
conservative PPE group.
For a list of
the new committee chairs see: EP
Chairs