Many in the European Parliament have for weeks been impatiently waiting for the hearings of the European commissioners-designate to end and for normal business to resume. One MEP, though, has been rushing around ever since this Parliament was formed in July: Bernd Lange, the German socialist who now heads the Parliament’s trade – INTA – committee.
Lange’s energy and political skills are already being stretched by the challenge of steering through the Parliament three huge trade deals with the United States, Canada and Japan. Already, he has had to master the rules of procedure to ensure that Ukraine and two African …read more
Source: European Voice
