EP Plenary session - Resumption of session and order of business

EP Plenary session.- Resumption of session and order of business

Subcommittee on Human Rights

DROI

Committee on Budgetary Control

CONT

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

EMPL

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

ECON

3rd European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities

UNKN

Seminar for journalists - Roadmap towards a Banking Union

Alain LAMASSOURE - Chairman of the Committee on Budgets - Francesca BALZANI - BUDG rapporteur 2012 - and Giovanni LA VIA -BUDG rapporteur 2013 -

Committee on Budgets

BUDG

Science and Technology Options Assessment

STOA

Committee on Petitions

PETI

Committee on Transport and Tourism

TRAN

Special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering

CRIM

Committee on Foreign Affairs

AFET

Barbara WEILER - CRIM rapporteur -

Guy VERHOFSTDADT - President of the ADLE Group -

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

ENVI

Sergio GONCALVES in the EP in Brussels

Nikola BARTUSEK in the EP in Brussels

Michal KOBOSKO in the EP in Strasbourg

Opening of an exhibition by the artist Ada LOFFREDO at the EP in Strasbourg

Portrait of Gerfrid GAIGG at the EP in Brussels.

Martin SCHULZ - EP President, Knud FLECKENSTEIN

EP President meets Knud FLECKENSTEIN

EP President with the representatives of democratic opposition and civil society of Belarus

MEP offering the book The Rebirth of Democracy: 12 constitutions of Central and Easteren Europe to the Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, at the EP in Strasbourg

Meeting with the European Commissioner, responsible for agriculture and rural development, at the EP in Brussels

EUROSCOLA event at the EP in Strasbourg

British war veterans visit the EP in Brussels.

Aerial view of the EP building in Luxembourg.

Debate of the European Socialists at the EP in Brussels

European Parliament in Brussels

Sofia SAKORAFA, Emmanouil GLEZOS, Kostadinka KUNEVA, Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS, Stelios KOULOGLOU, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

SYRIZA MEPs in Strasbourg

Martin SCHULZ - EP President , Catherine TRAUTMANN

EP President meets with former MEP Catherine TRAUTMANN

Jadwiga WISNIEWSKA voting in plenary session week  21 2015 in Strasbourg

Plenary session week 21 2015 in Strasbourg - votes explanations

DG COMM Live position n°2

Eva PAUNOVA in plenary session week 21 2015 in Strasbourg

Plenary session week 21 2015 in Strasbourg - Decision adopted on the Digital Single Market

New countries are knocking on the European Union's door. Who are they and what do they need to do to join the club?

A-Z: E for Enlargement

On International Women's Day the focus is on one of the Spanish presidency's top priorities for gender equality: stopping violence against women. Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson shares her story about her abusive spouse which now drives her battle to help

The News: Stopping domestic violence - Svensson's abusive past - EU monetary fund

Should the EU select its immigrants? Should newcomers from outside the EU be forced to learn the language and customs of their new country, or should we control the numbers entering? Some wish to stop immigration to their countries, whilst others encourag

Let's Talk: Immigration

This was the thought of Swedish MEP Eva Britt-Svensson before she left her abusive husband. Being a public figure didn't make her immune to domestic violence and she wants all victims of domestic violence to know there is a way out. For International Wome

If I go home he will kill me

Housing is increasingly becoming a source of inequalities says the Fondation Abbé Pierre, a housing charity. EuroparlTV goes to the heart of Paris to meet a family of four that lives in 18 square metres. Might a new parliamentary regulation save the teena

Reporter: Bad Housing Threatens Health, Schooling and Integration

Every three days a woman dies in France because of male violence. In Belgium, Solidarité Femmes, a women’s refuge, is always full and the victims are increasingly younger. Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson talks to EuroparlTV of her own personal nightmare an

Focus: Male Violence Costs Female Lives

Europe’s impoverished are mainly women, while motherhood and ageing increase the risk of indebtedness and social exclusion. A widening pay gap, short-term contracts and expensive and inadequate childcare are pushing more and more women below the breadline

Crossborder: The Female Face of Poverty

In 2009, 55 women were killed by their partners in Spain, 20 fewer women than the previous year. But there are 400,000 other potential murder victims according to Spanish government estimates. Electronic ankle bracelets to track aggressors and emergency t

Reporter: Beating The Bullies

The economic crisis has left Eastern European countries bleeding. According to Eurostat, almost a third of Hungary's population is at risk of poverty. Lithuania, with an unemployment rate of 13.8%, is cutting unemployment benefits, pensions and public sec

Reporter: From economic to social crisis in Eastern Europe

Spain is pioneering work to combat the scourge of domestic violence and wants Europe to follow its lead. Courts fast track cases allowing decisions to be handed down in days. Judges, lawyers and the police receive special training and a dedicated telephon

Reporter: Spain to Target Macho Men

Money, money, money - MEPs will spend much of March’s Strasbourg plenary counting the euros. Spending plans for 2011 will come under scrutiny as well as funds to help victims of the crisis and natural disasters in Europe and abroad. MEPs will also vote on

The News: March Plenary Agenda – 2011 Budget – Europe Commemorates Terrorism Victims

The genetically modified Amflora potato will produce more and better starch, the industry says - for technical applications only, following its approval lately by the European Commission. MEPs are still opposed, citing citizens' declared will and the risk

Transgenic tuber in stark contrast with what MEPs want

Economic crisis, international conflict and disaster relief are just some of the topics MEPs will be debating in the upcoming Strasbourg plenary. Europeans will also commemorate the first European Day for the Victims of Terrorism on 11 March, the sixth an

March Plenary: Crisis, Disaster and Terrorism

MEPs salaries will be aligned, which marks an end to discrepancies based on national earnings. Their wage packets will also be boosted by 1500 euros to take into account parliamentary assistants' expenses. MEPs also voted to give Parliament an additional

More Money for MEPs

After the lies about its debts comes the reconciliation with the reality. Greece implemented new austerity measures and the rift between Germany and Greece was somewhat healed. Brit MEP Nigel Farage refuses to apologise for his tirade against Council Pres

The News: Greek tragedy - Greco-Germanic relations - Rage over Farage

Demanding a hearing on the circumstances leading to Greece's economic crash, Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt hopes to get to the bottom of the issue. The hearings are essential in his opinion, to avoid history repeating itself.

The Interview: We have a duty to uncover the truth - Guy Verhofstadt

The poster girl of the parliamentary campaign against the SWIFT deal - which gave the US the power to monitor Europeans’ bank data - explains that she doesn’t want the Parliament to become a rubber stamp for US policy. Some think the EP’s rejection of the

Interview: Our role is to defend EU citizens’ fundamental rights – Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

MEPs want to control hedge funds through their managers, regardless of where they are based. Airline accidents should soon be investigated with the best possible expertise, if the EU gets its way. And, ArcelorMittal's case against the Emissions Trading Sc

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