July 16, 2024 5:22 PM

Malta’s Metsola to head EU Parliament for second term

Roberta Metsola secured broad backing for a new term as president of the European Parliament on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to win a second term as head of the EU assembly. Metsola, a Maltese lawmaker who in 2022 became the first woman in 20 years to head the European Union assembly, is only the second president, after Germany's Martin Schulz, to win another term since the EU Parliament became a directly elected institution in 1979. Metsola was approved by a large majority of EU lawmaker...