Sentence examples for a majority of meps from inspiring English sources

But their proposal would struggle to win a majority of MEPs.

Every government and a majority of MEPs has to agree – those MEPs who have endured Nigel Farage's outrageous insults all these years.

So, in the end, much to the chagrin of some of us, a majority of MEPs voted to carry on with business as usual.

If half the 27 national parliaments are unhappy, and a majority of national governments (or a majority of MEPs) agree, then the measure must be scrapped: a tall order.Europe is an experiment, and frequently frustrating, says one senior official.

Ironically, the proposal that a majority of MEPs – including most Labour ones – voted down in December would have added new safeguards against employers abusing the opt-out, while also solving some of the most cumbersome aspects of the WTD, such as the on-call time issue.

That expensive monthly commute to Strasbourg is a sore point - last year a majority of MEPs voted to end it.

A majority of Labour MEPs are women and Scottish Labour members have just elected Kezia Dugdale as their new leader.

The McCanns hope their written declaration will be signed by a majority of 390 MEPs in the next three months.

And as late as April this year, a majority of British MEPs (60%) voted to keep details about their own expenses and information about misuse of EU funds secret.

Suspending EU structural funding for Spain and Portugal would be counter-productive, because it would harm their most vulnerable citizens and regions, a vast majority of MEPs warned the EU Commission at a "structured dialogue" hearing yesterday.

A wide majority of MEPs endorsed the whole report, while a narrow majority (342 votes to 326, with 19 abstentions) rejected an amendment calling for a general phaseout of bottom trawling after 2 years.