EP Plenary session - Short presentations

Opening of the High-level Interparliamentary Conference on Migration and Asylum in Europe in the European Parliament in Brussels. Opening speeches by David SASSOLI, EP President, Ursula von der LEYEN, President of the European Commission, Wolfgang SCHÄUBLE, President of the German Bundestag, Eduardo Ferro RODRIGUES, President of the Portuguese Parliament and Igor ZORČIČ, President of the Slovenian National Assembly.

Migration and Asylum in Europe - High-level Interparliamentary Conference: Opening speeches

Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice gives a presentation on the need for a conditionality clause in the next Multiannual Financial Framework on Democracy, Rule of Law and fundamental rights to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament in Brusels.

LIBE : The need for a conditionality clause in the next Multiannual Financial Framework on Democracy, Rule of Law and fundamental rights: Presentation by Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice

David SASSOLI, EP President, participates remotely from the European Parliament in Brussels, to the G7 Speakers meeting addressing the Climate Crisis with economic and environmental justice for all. The meeting is hosted by Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. G7 Parliamentary Speakers' meeting aims to promote an exchange of experience on parliamentary matters.

David SASSOLI, EP President, speech at the Opening of the G7 Speakers meeting addressing the Climate Crisis with economic and environmental justice for all

David SASSOLI, EP President, opens the European Parliament Innovation Day, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

European Parliament Innovation Day: opening speech by David SASSOLI, EP President

David SASSOLI, EP President, and Christos DOULKERIDIS, Mayor of Ixelles, inaugurate the Citizens Garden in Brussels.

Inauguration of Citizens Garden by David SASSOLI, EP President, and Christos DOULKERIDIS, Mayor of Ixelles: extracts from the opening speeches and atmosphere

David SASSOLI, EP President, delivers a speech by video conference at the innaugural session of the Italian Government National consultation to discuss a new strategy for economic recovery, in Brussels.

Speech by David SASSOLI, EP President at the innaugural session of the Italian Government National consultation to discuss a new strategy for economic recovery: video conference

MEPs are debating and voting on €3 billion in emergency support for the health sectors of the most affected EU countries as well as on a scheme to procure medical supplies for member states facing shortages. While reducing the need for physical meetings on its premises, Parliament is exercising its core activities by using extraordinary remote voting procedures to approve urgent EU measures to fight the pandemic. In the context of the coronavirus outbreak (Covid-19), some MEPs wear protective mask in the hemicycle. Speech by Charles MICHEL, President of the European Council, Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the EC, Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS (EPP, ES), Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ (S&D, ES) by videoconferencing remote participation, Dacian CIOLOŞ (RE, RO) by videoconferencing remote participation), and Philippe LAMBERTS (Greens/EFA, BE).

EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences: extracts from the debate

David SASSOLI, EP President, opens the plenary session (9-12 March 2020) in Brussels. Exceptionally, the plenary takes place in Brussels instead of Strasbourg because of concerns linked to the spread of the Coronavirus and due to these circumstances, the President announces the new agenda of this plenary session decided by the EP Conference of the Presidents.

Introductory remarks by David SASSOLI, EP President, on the new agenda of the plenary session of March 2020

David SASSOLI, EP President, gives a speech during the inauguration of the Antonio Megalizzi Foundation, in Trente, Italy. Antonio Megalizzi was a young man from Trentino who died in December 2018 during a terrorist attack in Strasbourg.

Inauguration of the Antonio Megalizzi Foundation: extracts from the speech by David SASSOLI, EP President

David SASSOLI, EP President, opens the "Nuovo Bilancio Pluriennale Comunitario" in Rome, Italy.

"Nuovo Bilancio Pluriennale Comunitario": extracts from the opening speech by David SASSOLI, EP President

In the European Parliament in Brussels, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) holds a hearing with Christine LAGARDE, President ECB, ahead of its vote on the 2019 ECB annual report. MEPs may raise the issues of monetary policy in a slowing economy and amid trade tensions, crypto assets and the strategies used by the ECB to implement environmental principles, such as buying green bonds.

Monetary Dialogue with Christine LAGARDE, President of the European Central Bank: extracts from the opening statement by Christine LAGARDE

On the occasion of his official visit to Tirana, Albania, David SASSOLI, EP President, meets with Gramoz RUCI, Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, addresses in the plenary session and meets with Ilir META, President of Albania.

Official visit by David SASSOLI, EP President to Tirana: meeting with Gramoz RUCI, Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, extracts from the address in the plenary session and meeting with Ilir META, President of Albania

The European Parliament holds a ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp 75 years ago, in Brussels. Address by Anita LASKER WALLFISCH, surviving cellist of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz, in the presence of the world famous cellist, Maestro Mischa Maïsky and by Zoni WEISZ, Sinti survivor of Auschwitz, member of the International Auschwitz Committee and the Dutch Auschwitz Committee in the presence of David SASSOLI, EP President and Liliana SEGRE, Italian Senator for life, survivor of Auschwitz and family photo.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: arrivals, meeting with David SASSOLI, EP President and extracts from the speeches

His Majesty Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein, King of Jordan, addresses MEPs during a formal sitting in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Address by His Majesty King Abdullah II, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: extracts

On the occasion of 20 years of Louise WEISS building, David SASSOLI, EP President, delivers a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

20 years of Louise WEISS building: extracts from the speech by David SASSOLI, EP President

David SASSOLI, EP President and Olivér VÁRHELYI, Member of the EC in charge of neighbourhood and enlargement open the High-Level Roundtable on the European Integration Process of the Western Balkans, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

High-Level Roundtable on the European Integration Process of the Western Balkans: extracts from the opening speech

As European Parliament’s President and political group leaders declared the public hearings of candidates closed, Ursula von der LEYEN, President-elect of the European Commission, presents her team of Commissioners-designate to Parliament and discuss the new Commission’s objectives with MEPs, during the plenary session (25-28 November 2019) in Strasbourg. Parliament will then decide (by simple majority) whether to approve the College of Commissioners in its entirety. If elected, the European Commission will take up office on 1 December.

Presentation by Ursula von der LEYEN, President-elect, of the College of Commissioners and their programme: extracts (2/2)

David SASSOLI, EP President, opens the press seminar for journalists from Member States "A new political agenda for Europe: the priorities of the European Parliament group leaders", organised by the EP Press Service, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

"A new political agenda for Europe: the priorities of the European Parliament group leaders" - EP Press seminar: opening remarks by David SASSOLI, EP President

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