The following spoke: António Marinho e Pinto, to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the kidnapping of the Italian politician Aldo Moro, murdered by the Red Brigades on 9 May 1978, and Olaf Stuger, on the statements by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs concerning the results of the general elections in the Netherlands (the President noted this).
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The President announced that the Conference of Presidents had approved the request of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion, for its mandate to be extended for three months.
This extension was necessary to enable the committee to implement fully and correctly its mandate, as adopted by Parliament on 8 June 2016, given the number of documents remaining to be examined, the analyses requested, and the various stakeholders still needing to be heard.