EU AGENCIES: PARLIAMENT DECLARES START TO HEADQUARTERS WAR.

The European Parliament took the opportunity of a vote on a report by Dutch Socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten concerning planned Financial Regulation implementation procedures, to press the Council to reach a compromise on where to site the headquarters of the European Food Safety Agency, the Maritime Safety Agency and the Air Safety Agency. The general draft Regulation is based on a set of regulations that differ according to the legal basis governing the application of the Financial Regulation for the various EU bodies, whose founding acts have to be amended. The Parliamentary strategy does not apply to the van Hulten report...