EP Plenary session - Restoring the EU’s competitive edge - the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies

EP Plenary session - Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU

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

EP Plenary session - 2025 budgetary procedure

BUDG CONT - Confirmation hearing of Piotr Arkadiusz SERAFIN, European Commissioner-designate for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration

ECON - Confirmation hearing of Maria Luís ALBUQUERQUE, European Commissioner-designate for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union

EP Plenary session - General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections

EP Plenary session - The rise of religious intolerance in Europe

EP Plenary session - Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal

Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly Constitutive meeting

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - Situation in Venezuela

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East

EP Plenary session - Voting session

REGI - Votes on Amending the proposed mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context

ECON Committee meeting

EP Plenary session - The Foreign Agents, Law in Nicaragua

Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA in the EP in Strasbourg

MEPs debate the increasing and systematic repression against women in Iran with closing statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality.

The increasing and systematic repression against women in Iran: MEPs debate

MEPs approve a deal on 2025’s EU budget to address current challenges and managing repayment costs for the EU’s recovery plan. During negotiations with member states, Parliament obtained more than €230 million in funding beyond the Commission's initial draft proposal, to better focus on key EU programmes and policies aimed at improving people's lives, boosting competitiveness, and addressing challenges like climate, health, migration or defence. Negotiators also agreed on a solution to cover repayment costs for the European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI). The preliminary figures are €199.44 billion in commitment appropriations and €155.21 billion in payment appropriations.

2025 budgetary procedure: MEPs debate

Piotr SERAFIN, European Commissioner-designate for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration of the VON DER LEYEN Commission, is heard by the Budgets (BUDG) and Budgetary Control (CONT) Committees. Committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and Legal Affairs (JURI) are also invited to participate as joint committees. Questions and answers.

Confirmation hearing of Piotr SERAFIN, European Commissioner-designate for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration: Questions / Answers (part 3)

Maria Luís ALBUQUERQUE, European Commissioner-designate for Financial Services and the Savings and Investment Union, of the VON DER LEYEN Commission is heard by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) of the European Parliament. Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) participate as joint committees. During the confirmation hearing, Maria Luís ALBUQUERQUE answers questions by committee members.

Confirmation hearing of Maria Luís ALBUQUERQUE, European Commissioner-designate for Financial Services and the Savings and Investment Union: questions / answers (part 2)

MEPs debate on the war in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East. MEPs debate the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip and the broader Middle East situation with the Commission. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has described the Gaza crisis as “catastrophic both from a humanitarian and political point of view,” with no positive outlook. The European Parliament has consistently called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages. MEPs are also expressing deep concern about the potential for further escalation, particularly in Lebanon. Second part of the debate.

War in the Gaza Strip and the situation in the Middle-East: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate on the inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights with Council and Commission. The debate is wound up by a resolution, to be put to a vote in the April I part-session. MEPs debate

Inclusion of the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: MEPs debate

Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Hadja LAHBIB, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions, on behalf of the Belgian Presidency, sign some legislative acts.

LEX signing ceremony in presence of Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Hadja LAHBIB, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions, on behalf of the Belgian Presidency

MEPs vote on the following topics: Temporary derogation from certain provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC for the purpose of combating online child sexual abuse; Empowering the French Republic to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement on the safety and interoperability requirements within the Channel Fixed Link; Conclusion of the Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Angola; Amendments to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and to the Directive relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITSD); Instant payments in euro; Limit values for lead and its inorganic compounds and diisocyanates; Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed; Norway's recent decision to advance seabed mining in the Arctic; and Rule of law and media freedom in Greece.

Voting session

MEPs discuss on a deal reached with the Council in December 2022. Under the agreement, member states applying to receive additional funds through an amended recovery and resilience plan will be required to include measures to save energy, produce clean energy and diversify energy supplies, as foreseen in the EU’s REPowerEU plan. Second part of the debate.

REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate with the Council and the Commission on what is being done to keep energy bills down and to help EU citizens deal with the social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine. Second part of the debate.

Keep the bills down - social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine: MEPs debate (part 2)

With energy prices skyrocketing and households being put under increasing financial pressure, MEPs discuss the merits and the most effective way of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits. In a resolution adopted in May, MEPs called for such a tax in principle.

Taxing windfall profits of energy companies: MEPs debate

MEPs quiz the Commission and the Council on the best use of EU funds to help citizens cope with the rising cost of living. The debate comes amid strong inflation, rising interest rates and rocketing energy prices, triggered by the post-COVID-19 recovery and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

EU initiatives to address the cost of living, including the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights: MEPs debate (part 1/2)

The European Parliament condemn the backsliding in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the US and globally, calling for safe access to abortion.

Global threats to abortion rights - the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

MEPs debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday on the Commission proposal implementing the international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The draft text calls for a review clause that would allow for the annual revenue threshold above which a multinational corporation would be subject to the minimum tax rate to be revised. MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union.

Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups: MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union

The draft report, which will be debated on Wednesday and put to the vote on Thursday, asks for more in-depth analysis, a broader scope, and a more effective approach from the Commission in its annual monitoring of the state of the rule of law in the European Union. MEPs are set to criticise the report’s failure to encompass EU valuesin their entirety, as well as its methodological shortcomings in highlighting the deliberate nature of the backsliding in Poland and Hungary. Opening statements by Terry REINTKE (Greens/EFA, DE), rapporteur, Petri SARVAMAA (EPP, FI), CONT; by Franco ROBERTI (S&D, IT), JURI, Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL (S&D, ES), BUDG; Sophia in 't VELD (Renew, NL), AFCO; Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA (EPP, ES), PETI.

Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law report: opening statements by Terry REINTKE (Greens/EFA, DE), rapporteur, and Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice

MEPs discuss whether national recovery plans meet the agreed targets as well as the situation in countries that have not yet had their plans approved. Second part of the debate.

State of play of the RRF (Recovery and Resilience Facility): MEPs debate (part 2/2)

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (4-7 October 2021), MEPs debate on the state of play of the Recovery and Resilience Facility plans (RRF) of member states awaiting for approval.

The state of play on the submitted RRF recovery plans awaiting approval: MEPs debate

Members of the Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) hold an Economic Dialogue on the 2021 European Semester Spring Package, with Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Executive Vice-President for An Economy that Works for People, Paolo GENTILONI, Commissioner for Economy and Nicolas SCHMIT, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights. The Spring Package focuses on providing medium-term fiscal guidance to Member States as they gradually reopen their economies.

Economic Dialogue and exchange of views on the 2021 European Semester Spring Package in EMPL/ECON Committees with Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Paolo GENTILONI and Nicolas SCHMIT: Exchanges of views (part 1)

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