"Plenary" is defined as "full, entire, complete, absolute, perfect, [and] unqualified".
As it happens, the official opening plenary is still delayed two-and-a-half hours.
Views expressed in the plenary were generally sceptical about the relevance and utility of a DAM for STI service-planning.
The European Left, in cooperation with the trade unions, through its proposals to the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and to the plenary, is pressing for the protection of all employees, regardless of the type of contract under which they are employed.
I think it is a very good thing, and I am very pleased, that I can cooperate with Mr Donnelly to the extent that if my report on the review of the plenary is put on the agenda, we can perhaps take up this amendment about scrapping split voting again, because it is in fact an amendment about scrapping split voting, albeit in disguise.
In previous centuries, when governments were made up of a handful of departments – trade, foreign affairs, treasury and military – the plenaries were the arena of action.
Most of the nuclear talks, except for the opening and closing plenaries, are held at Vienna's Palais Coburg, nicknamed the Spargelburg, or Castle of Asparagus, for its leggy neoclassical columns.
(Or what passes for the open, for the IPCC's plenaries are normally closed to press and public).Ironically, that exclusion underlines the fact that replacing Dr Pachauri is not the main point.
But with less attention on the eurozone, some other plenaries are very much 'must-sees' this year.
