During the plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, 23 April, MEPs voted in favour of postponing the 2022 discharge for the Council budget, as they have every year since 2009, by 539 votes in favour, 26 against, and 29 abstentions.
The chamber also adopted the related motion for a resolution, which recommends postponing the discharge to the Council and laments the EU Council’s “malpractice of non-cooperation with the Parliament”, which prevents the latter from “[making] an...