Closed for business: The 11 moments that defined the European Parliament's term
Lawmakers will now head back to their native countries to prepare for the elections in June when voters will choose the 720 members of the next legislature. For many in the Parliament, the respite will doubtless be welcomed after five years of navigating a formidable succession of global emergencies, haggling over transformative pieces of legislation and scrambling to manage PR disasters. "I would never have been able to predict both how much we managed to achieve, but also how many crises and challenges we've had to overcome and to handle," the Parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, told Eu...