Written by Clare Ferguson,
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The key debate on Parliament’s agenda for this Strasbourg session week (Wednesday) will be the Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 17-18 March 2016 and the outcome of the EU-Turkey summit – obviously linked to the migration situation in the Mediterranean. Conscious of the urgent need for a holistic EU approach to the crisis, Members will then vote on Wednesday afternoon on a proposal to amend the EU budget to provide a new instrument to finance emergency support within EU territory, with the first Draft Amending Budget of 2016. The first aim …read more