#EUROPEAN POLITICS

MEPs vote in Strasbourg for the European Parliaments president and vice-presidents for the next two and a half years. Photo: Christophe Petit Tesson, PAP/EPA

European parliamentarians unite to block far-right MEPs from vice-presidencies

Far-right factions in the European Parliament have slammed a so-called “cordon sanitaire” created by their opponents to prevent their MEPs from securing vice-presidencies and other key positions in the legislature.