Parliament postpones vote on EU stimulus package11918865
A plenary session on Tuesday lasted from 2pm on Tuesday afternoon until nearly 4.30am on Wednesday morning.
Speaker of Parliament Anu Vehviläinen (Cen) suspended the session at 4:24am.
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A parliamentary vote on the EU's Covid recovery plan, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, has been postponed after a debate on the stimulus package on Tuesday dragged on into the early hours of the morning.
The plenary session began at 2pm on Tuesday afternoon and ended at 4:24am on Wednesday morning. Yet despite the marathon 14-hour duration of the debate, not all MPs had an opportunity to speak on the subject, leading Speaker of Parliament