The European Parliament President, David Sassoli, has announced that for the course of the next three weeks, 130 events at the European Parliament which were expected to be attended by 6000 to 7000 participants, will be cancelled. In addition, visitors will not be allowed to access the Parliament for this period. The decision was announced late Monday evening.

“We will limit the access of visitors to the Parliament. This measure derives from the fact that we are a very open institution by nat...