EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REVERSES SMOKING BAN
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has reversed an in-house smoking ban, just six weeks after the institution's leaders blocked MEPs from lighting up. Members were supposed to stop smoking in the parliament's Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg premises from January 1, but the ban was widely ignored, with MEPs smoking in their own offices and corridors. And, later in January, a new leadership European parliament president - German Christian Democrat Hans-Gert Poettering and 14 vice-presidents were elected - and they promptly scrapped the ban and created ...
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