Vote on EU anti-fraud body postponed, diverging views on multilingualism at the Parliament, and Provence city gears up for European culture capital.

Budget control / Languages / Marseille

No vote on OLAF today,  as foreseen until this morning.

Budgetary Control Committee MEPs  found the report touches on one question

that they can't answer,  namely MEPs' immunity.

There is a point which the Council  has not given us in the negotiations

on the conditions when the Anti-Fraud  Office should have access to MEPs' offices,

where the actual political work  is being done.

MEPs will try to produce  a memorandum of understanding

to make sure the important report  on OLAF's reform

can be voted in their next meeting  on October 8th.

23 languages,  and in a few months' time 24.

Multilingualism is at the heart  of the European project,

users chatting  with MEP Miguel Martínez were told.

Multilingualism is essential  for the European Union

but it is indispensable  for the European Parliament.

But some MEPs think  the challenge is not always met.

Less than a week ago, a French MEP  had to vote on a 400-page budget report

In 1950 there were four languages,  today there are 23. It's complex.

Unfortunately, many of us  have noticed, and regret,

MEPs around Audy are now asking  for more money to be put aside

for translations  in the EU institutions.

France's southern metropolis  and door to the Mediterranean

is also one of the country's  social hotspots.

But Marseille is the right choice  as European Culture Capital,

MEPs and visitors at an event highlighting  the city's bright sides were told.

Marseille sometimes receives criticism.  Marseille has a future.

Marseille is perhaps the capital of this  Euro-Mediterranean that we want to create.

Next meeting in 2013, when the city  celebrates European culture