Bullmann to head Human Rights Committee

SPD MEP Udo Bullmann is to head the Human Rights Committee (DROI) in the European Parliament. S&D group leader Iratxe García Peréz announced at the group conference on Monday that the 66-year-old MEP from Hesse is the Socialists’ candidate in the election for the leadership of the subcommittee. The election is necessary after the resignation of the previous chair Maria Arena (S&D). Arena had to resign in connection with the corruption affair around Eva Kaili, because she had participated in a human rights conference in Doha and had the costs paid by the Gulf state.