[rendaw]

This is an absurdly bad take.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/9/plenary-session...

> Plenary sessions of Parliament take place 12 times per year in Strasbourg and last four days

There are 48 days in sessions over a year. You're saying that it's too much to ask MEPs not to take holidays during those 48 days? Am I missing something here?

[rowanG077]

Do you those 48 days are the total number of working hours these MEPs have? Of course not. Something always needs to give when going on vacation. And usually missing a a plenary session is not weird or the end of the world. The problem here is that in this case the rules were abused.

[gmueckl]

Most of the work of an MP is not sitting in plenary sessions looking bored. The normally important bits are in-between - committee and office work. This specific event here is an example of a plenary session suddenly being made extremely important by a procedural trick.

[xienze]

But it _was_ a plenary session, was it not? One of only 48? That someone could easily avoid scheduling a vacation during?