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UK lawmakers vote in favour of the government's latest plans for sending migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative party. A knife-edge parliamentary vote in the House of Commons sees 313 MPs vote for the so-called Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, with 269 against. IMAGES
French MPs agree by 181 votes to 163 to phase out most of the special pension schemes provided for in the first article of the pension reform. These schemes benefit workers at transport provider RATP, energy provider IEG and the Bank of France among others. The vote marks the adoption of the first measure of the government's contested pension reform, which is proceeding at a slow pace since its launch in the Chamber. IMAGES
French MPs in committee have rejected a proposal by far-left party MP Aymeric Caron to ban bullfighting. The proposal by the France Unbowed party has sparked heated debates and protests. IMAGES
Lawmakers in Finland vote overwhelmingly in favour of joining NATO as a deterrent against Russian aggression, paving the way for a joint application with Sweden to be submitted in the coming days. After a marathon debate lasting a day-and-a-half, 188 of 200 members of parliament voted in favour of NATO membership, a dramatic turnaround from Finland's military non-alignment policy dating back more than 75 years. IMAGES
France's National Assembly passes a bill designed to combat foreign interference, including a trial allowing intelligence services to use algorithmic surveillance techniques, currently reserved for counter-terrorism, for this purpose. IMAGES