In a hectic year-end session, MEPs demanded an end to national opt-outs to the 48-hour working week and backed measures to cut Europe's CO2 emissions by 2020.
In a hectic year-end session, MEPs demanded an end to national opt-outs to the 48-hour working week and backed measures to cut Europe's CO2 emissions by 2020. Also during the final sitting of the year, the parliament awarded the 20th Sakharov Prize for human rights to Chinese dissident Hu Jia in absentia.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended France's record during its 6-month presidency of the European Union. MEPs mainly gave Mr Sarkozy a positive response for his handling of new EU climate change legislation and the crisis in Georgia. Read more about the session below.
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