European Parliament President Roberta Metsola meets with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as well as with Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.

Discussions are likely to focus on the EU-Egypt Strategic and Comprehensive partnership, EU macro-financial assistance, human rights and the geopolitical situation in the region, including the need to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process and the situation in Gaza, as well as recent developments in Syria.

Roberta METSOLA, EP President Official visit to Cairo (Egypt)

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola meets with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Egypt Hanafy El Gebaly and the President of the Senate of Egypt Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq.

The visit takes place against the background of strengthening relations between the European Union and Egypt, ongoing discussions on EU macro-financial assistance and the geopolitical situation in the Middle East and the neighbouring region.

The meetings provides an opportunity to discuss interparliamentary relations, including the organisation of the next EU-Egypt Inter-Parliamentary Meeting (IPM) in Cairo, the EU's macro-financial assistance to Egypt, currently under discussion in the European Parliament, migration flows and asylum.

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Badr Ahmed Mohamed ABDELATTY, Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Cairo (Egypt) - Meeting with Badr Ahmed Mohamed ABDELATTY, Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Cairo (Egypt) - Meeting with Abdel Fattah AL-SISSI, President of Egypt

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Cairo (Egypt) - Meeting with Abdel-Wahab ABDEL-RAZEG, President of the Senate

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Cairo (Egypt) - Meeting with Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq, President of the Senate.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Cairo (Egypt) - Meeting with Hanafy EL GEBALY, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Press conference on EU-Egypt: a strategic partnership for whom?

EP Plenary session - Council and Commission statements - EU-Egypt strategic and comprehensive partnership and agreements with key third countries

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Sameh SHOUKRY, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt

EP Plenary session - The deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt, in particular the case of the activists of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)

Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 144) - Egypt

EP President meets with the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament

Plenary session - Week 06  2018 in Strasbourg - Executions in Egypt

Minute of silence for the victims of the recent attacks in Egypt, in the European Parliament in Brussels

Minute of silence for the victims of the recent attacks in Egypt in the European Parliament in Brussels

Antonio TAJANI - EP President meets with Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim ALLAM - Grand Mufti of Egypt

PLENKOVIC, Andrej (EPP, HR) - AFET Committee Vice-Chair, ALLAM, Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim - Grand Mufti of Egypt

AFET Committee - Exchange of views with the Grand Mufti of Egypt

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Shawqy Ibrahim Abdul Kareem ALLAM

AFET Committee meeting with the Grand Mufti of Egypt

EP President Roberta METSOLA meets with Badr Abdelatty, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Cairo (Egypt): Badr Ahmed Mohamed ABDELATTY, Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola travels to Egypt on 8-9 January 2025, the visit takes place against the background of strengthening relations between the European Union and Egypt, ongoing discussions on EU macro-financial assistance and the geopolitical situation in the Middle East and the neighbouring region. This video shows the meeting between Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament and Abdel Fattah AL-SISSI, President of Egypt

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Cairo (Egypt): meeting with Abdel Fattah AL-SISSI, President of Egypt

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola meets with the President of the Senate, Mr Abdel-Whab Abdel-Razeq in Cairo. The visit takes place against the background of strengthening relations between the European Union and Egypt, ongoing discussions on EU macro-financial assistance and the geopolitical situation in the Middle East and the neighbouring region.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Cairo (Egypt): meeting with Abdel-Wahab ABDEL-RAZEG, President of the Senate

The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, travels to Egypt and meets with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hanafy El Gebaly. The meeting provides an opportunity to discuss interparliamentary relations, including the organisation of the next EU-Egypt Inter-Parliamentary Meeting (IPM) in Cairo, the EU's macro-financial assistance to Egypt, currently under discussion in the European Parliament, migration flows and asylum.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Cairo (Egypt): meeting with Hanafy EL GEBALY, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Mounir SATOURI (Greens/EFA, FR), Tineke STRIK (Greens/EFA, NL), rapporteurs and Karen MELCHIOR (Renew, DK) hold a press conference on EU-Egypt partnership. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press Conference by Mounir SATOURI (Greens/EFA, FR), Tineke STRIK (Greens/EFA, NL), rapporteurs and Karen MELCHIOR (Renew, DK) on EU-Egypt: a strategic partnership for whom?

MEPs vote on several texts: opening of negotiations on the Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders - Guillaume, Human rights situation in Afghanistan, in particular the persecution of former government officials - Motion for resolution, the case of Zarema Musaeva in Chechnya - Motion for resolution, Egypt, in particular the sentencing of Hisham Kassem - Motion for resolution, European green bonds - Tang, Scheme of generalised tariff preferences - Hautala, Financial services contracts concluded at a distance - Kokalari, Urban wastewater treatment. Recast - Torvalds, Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s attack - Motion for resolution, Taking stock of Moldova’s path to the EU - Motion for resolution, The new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+) - Motion for resolution.

Voting session: Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders, the new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+), taking stock of Moldova’s path to the EU

Closing statement by Janez LENARČIČ, European Commissioner for Crisis Management on the current human rights situation in Egypt.

Human rights situation in Egypt: closing statement by Janez LENARČIČ, European Commissioner for Crisis Management

One round Political group leaders debating on human rights situation in Egypt.

Human rights situation in Egypt: one round Political group leaders

Opening statement by Janez LENARČIČ, European Commissioner for Crisis Management on the current human rights situation in Egypt.

Human rights situation in Egypt: opening statement by Janez LENARČIČ, European Commissioner for Crisis Management

Press point by David SASSOLI, EP President and members the association supporting Patrick Zaki in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Patrick George Zaki, Egyptian activist and researcher, was arrested on February 2020 after he landed in Cairo’s international airport (Egypt) for a visit to see his family.

Press point by David SASSOLI, EP President and by members the association supporting Patrick Zaki

Patrick George Zaki, Egyptian activist and researcher, has been in preventive detention since February 8, 2020. David SASSOLI, EP President, meets with members of the association supporting Patrick Zaki in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with the association supporting Patrick Zaki: meeting and roundtable

David SASSOLI, EP President on a phone call with Francesco UBERTINI, Dean of the Bologna University, on the occasion of the birthday of Patrick ZAKI, detained in Egypt since February 2020: extracts from the beginning of the phone call. Patrick George Zaki is a student of the University of Bologna and an activist. He is detained in jail, in Egypt, since the 7th of February 2020. Zaki was charged from the public prosecutor’s office and prosecutors ordered a detention for 15 days pending investigations into allegations of "spreading fake news and calling for unauthorised protests". His detention was extendend every 45 days during this year. June, 16th is the day of his 30th birthday.

David SASSOLI, EP President on a phone call with Francesco UBERTINI, Dean of the Bologna University, on the occasion of the birthday of Patrick ZAKI, detained in Egypt since February 2020: extracts

Announcements of the results of the second voting session - Final votes on the deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt and General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2021 - all sections - report Pierre LARROUTUROU (S&D, FR) and Olivier CHASTEL (Renew, BE)

Announcements of the results of the second voting session - Final votes on the deteriorating situation of human rights in Egypt and General budget of the EU for the financial year 2021 - report Pierre LARROUTUROU (S&D, FR) - Olivier CHASTEL (RE, BE)

During his press conference on the Multinannual Financial Framework, David SASSOLI, EP President, called for the immediate release of Patrick ZAKY, an Egyptian student from Bologna who is detained in Cario since 7th February.

David SASSOLI, EP President calls for the release of the researcher Patrick ZAKY, arrested in Cairo on the 7th February: extracts

During the plenary session (21-24/10/2019) of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law such as Uganda, notably the proposed bill to impose capital punishment of homosexual acts, Egypt, and the proposed new Criminal Code of Indonesia. Statements by Maria ARENA (S&D, BE), Tomas TOBÉ (EPP, SE), Alice BAH KUHNKE (Greens/EFA, SW), Neven MIMICA, Member of the EC in charge of International Cooperation and Development, Miguel URBÁN CRESPO (GUE/NGL, ES), Anna FOTYGA (ECR, PL) and Katalin CSEH (RE, HU).

Cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: extracts from the debates

During the plenary session (10-13/12/18) of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Statements on Iran by Heidi HAUTALA (Greens/EFA, FI), Charles TANNOCK (ECR, UK) and Neven MIMICA, Member of the EC in charge of International Cooperation and Development. Statements on Egypt by Ignazio CORRAO (EFDD, IT), Elly SCHLEIN (S&D, IT) and Neven MIMICA. Statements on Tanzania by Soraya POST (S&D, SE), Elena VALENCIANO (S&D, ES) and Neven MIMICA.

Cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: extracts from the debates on Iran, notably the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh and Egypt, notably the situation of human rights defenders Tanzania

Visit of Ali Abdel AAL, Speaker of Egyptian Parliament, to the European Parliament in Brussels. Arrival, welcome by Antonio TAJANI, EP President, and roundtable.

Antonio TAJANI, EP President meets with Ali Abdel AAL, Speaker of Egyptian Parliament: arrival and roundtable

During the EP plenary session (5-8 February 2018) in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, such as Russia, the case of Oyub Titiev and the Human Rights Center Memorial, executions in Egypt and child slavery in Haiti. Statements by Kosma Zlotowski (ECR, PL), Petras AUSTREVICIUS (ALDE, LT), Soraya POST (S&D, SE), Christos STYLIANIDES, Member of the EC in charge of Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Charles TANNOCK (ECR, UK), Judith SARGENTINI (Greens/EFA, NL), Ignazio CORRAO (EFDD, IT), Marietje SCHAAKE (ALDE, NL), Michèle RIVASI (Greens/EFA, FR) and Catherine BEARDER (ALDE, UK),

Cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: extracts from the debates on Russia, the case of Oyub Titiev and the Human Rights Center Memorial - Executions in Egypt - Child slavery in Haiti

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