Hver dag er der, et eller andet sted i verden, personer, der lokkes til at medvirke til ulovlig handel med menneskeorganer. Selv i EU bliver nogle ofre for menneskehandel udnyttet til formål, som bl.a. omfatter fjernelse af organer.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for ofre for ulovlig organhandel

I EU fremstilles der mange fødevarer, som er typiske for et område eller udspringer af en særlig tradition. Fremstillingsprocesserne kræver specifik knowhow, som EU er med til at beskytte. Her er hvordan.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for producenter af regionale og traditionelle produkter

Kvinder har bevist, at de kan varetage de samme politimæssige, militære og civile roller som mænd. De deltager i stigende grad i fredsbevarende og humanitære missioner rundt omkring på kloden. Og undersøgelser viser, at de spiller en central rolle i mæglings- og konfliktløsningsprocesser og fungerer som rollemodeller for lokalsamfundene.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for kvinder i militæret og inden for fredsbevarelse og fredsskabelse

Millioner af mennesker arbejder i en god sags tjeneste ved at bruge deres arbejdsliv på at hjælpe andre eller ved at arbejde for en nonprofitorganisation. Faktisk er knap 30 % af EU's borgere og hver 10. virksomhed i EU involveret i den sociale økonomi. Her er nogle eksempler på, hvordan EU rækker dem en hjælpende hånd.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for personer, der arbejder for en god sag

Der er mange brancheorganisationer, der ønsker at gøre politikerne bekendt med deres synspunkter. EU vil gerne høre deres mening, men regulerer samtidig deres aktiviteter.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for repræsentanter for interessegrupper

Er du en af EU's mere end 500 000 fjerkræsavlere? EU støtter op om din branche på en række måder.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for fjerkræopdrættere

Hvis du som så mange andre allerede har prøvet alle mulige diæter for at tabe dig, har du ikke brug for at få at vide, at du "bare skal spise mindre og motionere mere". Vi ved jo alle, at det er meget mere kompliceret end som så. Her er tre måder, EU gør tingene lidt enklere på:

Dette er, hvad EU gør for folk, der prøver at tabe sig

Er du bekymret for, hvordan affald påvirker miljøet? Engangsplast kan for eksempel forblive i miljøet i flere hundrede år. I Europa anvendes der hvert år over 8 milliarder plastposer. Her er tre ting, som EU gør for at løse dette problem.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for personer, som ønsker at undgå plastposer

Uanset om du brygger dit eget øl eller bare kan lide at drikke det, vil det glæde dig at høre, at EU støtter øl-entusiaster. Her er nogle ting, du kan nyde godt af som EU-borger:

Dette er, hvad EU gør for øl-entusiaster

Hvis du er interesseret i mad og holder af europæiske specialiteter, er du måske stødt på produkter, der bærer særlige EU-kvalitetsmærker. Et eksempel herpå er Danbo-ost og Lammefjordskartofler, der bærer mærket "beskyttet geografisk betegnelse". Disse mærker viser, at Unionen beskytter produkternes navne og deres unikke egenskaber.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for forbrugere af regionale og traditionelle produkter

Internettet har ændret den måde, hvorpå mange af os bestiller ferie. Derfor besluttede EU i 2015 at tilpasse de regler, der beskytter deltagere i pakkerejser. Dette kommer dig til gavn på flere måder.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for deltagere i pakkerejser

Et meget stort antal børn i EU — hele 25 millioner — befinder sig på fattigdomsgrænsen eller risikerer social udstødelse. EU hjælper på flere måder med til at få dette tal ned.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for fattige børn

Størstedelen af europæerne beskriver sig selv som troende, men et stort antal deltager også aktivt i filosofiske og humanistiske bevægelser. Det åndelige landskab er meget mangfoldigt.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for medlemmer af religiøse og konfessionsløse organisationer

Moms er en vigtig indtægtskilde for de nationale statskasser og EU-budgettet, men der kan også svindles med momsen. Dette er, hvad EU gør for at mindske denne risiko.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for modstandere af momssvig

Lokale og regionale offentligt ansatte spiller en meget vigtig rolle for EU og EU's politikker, og derfor støtter EU dem på flere måder.

Det er, hvad Europa gør for lokale og regionale embedsmænd

De musikalske stilarter er mangfoldige – ligesom Europa er det. EU støtter kunstnere med alle mulige forskellige udtryksmåder. Dette er, hvad EU gør for den europæiske musikscene.

Dette er, hvad EU gør for unge musikfans.

EP Plenary session - Right to clean drinking water in the EU

AFET DEVE DROI  joint Committee meeting with Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2024 laureates

EP Plenary session - Regional Emergency Support

ITRE - ENVI

ITRE

ENVI

Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Committee on Transport and Tourism

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

FEMM

Subcommittee on Human Rights

EPRS policy roundtable: Fiscal and monetary policy - two sides of the same coin?

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Committee on Legal Affairs

JURI

LIBE - FEMM

LIBE

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

AGRI

IMCO

Special Committee on COVID-19 pandemic

COVI

Committee of inquiry to investigate the use of the Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware

PEGA

Subcommittee on Security and Defence

SEDE

JURI - DROI Interparliamentary Committee Meeting (ICM)

DROI

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2024 - Interviews with laureates

EP Plenary session - Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023

EU-CELAC Summit - Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Luiz Inácio LULA da SILVA, President of Brazil

FISC subcommittee - Public hearing on ' Tackling the role of enablers involved in facilitating tax evasion and aggressive tax planning in the European Union (SAFE) '

EU-CELAC Summit - Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Guillermo LASSO, President of Ecuador

EU-CELAC Summit

Isabella Adinolfi in the EP in Brussels

Josianne Cutajar in the EP in Brussels

Signing Ceremony Annual EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis.

EP Plenary session.- Oral question - 10th anniversary of the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Religion or Belief

Trilogue on violence against women

EP Plenary session - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Oral question - Recommendations of the Commission on public country by country reporting transposition

10th EU-Malaysia IPM

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - Global Convergence on Generative AI

EP Plenary session - Public access to documents – annual report for the years 2019-2021

EP Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law

EP Plenary session - Recommendations for reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption

Quaestors ceremony

EP Plenary session - Delivering on the Green Deal: risk of compromising the EU path to the green transition and its international commitments

This infoclip shows the factory of Seifert Systems in Malta. The company, with more than 55 years’ experience and expertise within Industrial Thermal Management, has recently made a €12 million investment to extend their factory in Malta, benefitting from EU funds through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Infoclip: Industrial thermal management systems - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – Birżebbugia (Malta)

Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar addresses the European Parliament during a plenary session in Brussels to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January). EP President Roberta Metsola is present and delivers an introductory speech. After the ceremony, EP President and group leaders meet with Irene Shashar.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day - Roberta METSOLA, EP President and EP Group Leaders meet with Irene SHASHAR, Holocaust survivor: family photo

Sheva Tehoval, soprano and Marcelo Nisinman bandoneon player play a rendition of The Kaddish by Maurice Ravel. The Kaddish is a hymn that is recited during Jewish prayer services. The term Kaddish is often used to refer specifically to "The Mourner's Kaddish," which is chanted as part of the mourning rituals in Judaism in all prayer services, as well as at funerals and memorials. Along with the Shema Yisrael and the Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most important and central elements in the Jewish liturgy.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: "The Kaddish" by Maurice Ravel - Sheva Tehoval, soprano and Marcelo Nisinman bandoneon player

Irene Shashar addresses MEPs on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day during a solemn ceremony in the Hemicycle. Irene Shashar, born on 12 December 1937 as Ruth Lewkowicz, survived the Warsaw ghetto. After her father was killed by the Nazis she escaped the ghetto with her mother through the sewers to another part of Warsaw where she was a “hidden child” for the rest of war. She and her mother then moved to Paris. After her mother’s death, she moved to Peru where she was adopted by relatives. After studying in the US, she moved to Israel at the age 25 and became the youngest faculty member to hold a post at the Hebrew University. Today she lives in Modiin, Israel.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: keynote speech by Irene Shashar, Warsaw Ghetto survivor

Parliament organizes a special plenary session in Brussels on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 79 years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. After President Metsola's speech, a musical interlude by the bandoneon player Mr. Marcelo Nisinman takes place in the plenary session.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: musical interlude by Marcelo Nisinman, bandoneon player

Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar addresses the European Parliament during a plenary session in Brussels to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January). EP President Roberta Metsola is present and delivers an introductory speech. Prior to the ceremony, the President meets with Irene SHASHARAS, Holocaust survivor. Extracts from the meeting and from the speech in the hemicycle.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Roberta METSOLA, EP President, meets with Irene SHASHAR, Holocaust survivor, extracts from the ceremony

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, opens the solemn ceremony with an introductory speech in the hemicycle. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: opening of the ceremony, video clip and introductory remarks by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, meets and exchanges views on European Union with young people, at the Town Hall, during her official visit to Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg). This footage shows extracts from the Town Hall discussion with young students of a local high-school.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg): extracts from the Town Hall discussion

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, pays an official visit to Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) and meets Luc FRIEDEN, Luxembourgish Prime Minister, during her official visit to Luxembourg. This footage shows the arrival of President Metsola and welcome by Prime Minister Frieden, their bilateral and roundtable.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) - Meeting with Luc FRIEDEN, Luxembourgish Prime Minister: extracts from the arrival, meeting and roundtable

On 19 December 2022, the European Commission put forward a proposal for the targeted revision of Directive 2011/36/EU, which is the main EU instrument to combat trafficking in human beings and protect its victims. Despite progress achieved in fighting this crime, the Commission reports that, on average, 7 000 people per year are victims of human trafficking in the EU and that this figure is most likely only the tip of the iceberg. Moreover, forms of exploitation have evolved over time and have adapted to the new environment. MEPs. MEPs Malin Björk and Eugenia Rodríguez Palop brief journalists on the deal reached on the revision of the directive on combating trafficking in human beings. The provisional agreement will expand the scope of the current directive to include forced marriage, illegal adoption and better support for victims. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press Conference by Malin BJÖRK, (The Left, SE) and Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, (The Left, ES), rapporteurs on the outcome of the negotiations on the revision of the directive on combating trafficking in human beings

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, pays an official visit to Luxembourg. This footage shows her press point with Claude WISELER, Speaker of the Chamber of deputies (Luxembourgish Parliament). This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press point by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Claude WISELER, Speaker of the Chamber of deputies (Luxembourgish Parliament)

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, visits the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourgish Parliament) and meets with Claude WISELER, Speaker of the Luxembourgish Parliament, and with members of the Bureau and Committees of Foreign and European affairs during her official visit to Luxembourg. This news item shows extracts from the bilateral with Speaker Wiseler, from the meeting with members of the Bureau and Committees and from the press point.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Luxembourg - Visit to the Luxembourgish Parliament: bilateral with Claude WISELER, Speaker of the Luxembourgish Parliament, meeting with members of the Bureau and Committees and press point

Belgium holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2024. Belgium has announced that it will be working to strengthen the European Union and make progress in several areas, such as climate change, economic growth and social cohesion; whilst acting as a neutral mediator to lead the legislative work and seek compromises among the EU Member States. Belgian Ministers present the priorities of the presidency in the EP Committee meetings (ITRE, ECON - 22/01 - LIBE - 23/01).

Presentation of the Belgian Presidency priorities: extracts from the presentation by Belgian Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (ITRE, ECON - 22/01 - LIBE - 23/01)

Belgium holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2024. Belgium has announced that it will be working to strengthen the European Union and make progress in several areas, such as climate change, economic growth and social cohesion; whilst acting as a neutral mediator to lead the legislative work and seek compromises among the EU Member States. Belgian Ministers present the priorities of the presidency in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL, REGI, TRAN - 23/01).

Presentation of the Belgian Presidency priorities: extracts from the presentation by Belgian Ministers in the EP Committee meetings (EMPL, REGI, TRAN - 23/01)

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, meets with His Majesty King Philippe of the Belgians, and participates in a reception hosted by Him in the Royal Palace. This news item shows extracts from the bilateral meeting and reception attended by President Metsola.

Roberta METSOLA, EP President attends the New Year's reception hosted by Philippe, King of the Belgians with EP Vice-Presidents and Questors

The European Parliament has called for urgent action to counter hate speech and hate crime.     
MEPs say they should be added to the list of so-called Euro-crimes, meaning common standards and sanctions across the EU.     

They want to extend the current EU framework - which covers hatred based on race, skin colour, religion and ethnicity - to include sex, sexual orientation, age and disability.    
 
Parliament also called for measures to stop the internet and social media being used to spread hate.

MEPs call for tough EU-wide rules to tackle hate speech and hate crime

Roberta METSOLA, EP President is in Malta. She visits St Joseph School in Sliema and exchanges with the pupils.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Malta: meeting with students at St Joseph School, Sliema

Roberta METSOLA, EP President is in Malta. She pays tribute to Paulina Dembska, laying wreath on murder site in Sliema. Paulina Dembska, a Polish student, was killed in Independence Gardens on January 2, 2022.

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