How the European Parliament turned a minute's silence to political mudslinging

Staging a minute's silence in the European Parliament at the start of a plenary session is usually uncontroversial and common practice.

But the refusal of Katarina Barley, a vice-president of the chamber, to let some MEPs hold a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk has sparked uproar among many conservative MEPs, including inside the European People’s party. Kirk, an American political activist was shot in the neck on Wednesday while he was speaking on a Utah college campus and died at the hospital soon after.