Working

I've been going to work lately. Mostly I've just been looking around, seeing how things go. Today there was a full session of the parliament, in which they voted on various reports. They got very agitated on at least two occasions: Once when one of the Eurosceptics said that Angela Merkel had lied (big no no) and another time, when the speaker was too perfunctory and missed the fact that someone had objected to the procedure of one of the votes. The chamber is very high tech. They have a giant score board that shows the results of votes like at a sporting event.

Other than that the most interesting things that I've done were attending a press conference on the topic of the cancellation of the Moscow gay pride parade. Several activists and MEPs want the parliament to vote on revoking the mayor's travel rights to the EU. And Desmond Tutu was addressing the parliament earlier in the week on the topic of Darfur. I'm not sure if I'll count my attendance at a session of the fisheries committee as being very interesting, although it had its moments. The major event was the conclusion of an agreement with Sao Tome and Principe.