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Political group and committee meetings, Brussels TTIP. The International Trade Committee will vote on whether 116 amendments and requests for split or separate votes tabled to Parliament’s draft recommendations to EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiators should be put to a plenary vote. These amendments and requests were referred back to the committee after the June plenary vote on the recommendations was postponed. (Monday) Tax rulings. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici will debate their corporate tax plans with members of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings. (Thursday)

“Today we know the so-called "mob" was composed primarily of lower middle-class artisans, that their initial behavior was no more disorderly than that of protest movements we witness with great frequency in our own age…the Parisian crowds were set upon relieving the unsatisfactory living conditions they felt had resulted from a government both mismanaged and insensitive…In a way, therefore, the revolutionary forces that disturbed France in the summer of 1789 were coincidental: the coming together at a particular time of people protesting their economic plight and people seeking fundamental governmental reform.”  (Europe in Retrospect, Raymond F Betts) History gets very close to repeating itself.