EP Plenary session - Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe

European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - Media interviews

EP Plenary session - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Oral question - Cohesion dimension of EU state aid and de minimis rules

Minority Intergroup

European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents

SANT Subcommittee

EP Plenary session - IPCC report on Climate Change: a call for urgent additional action

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

EP Plenary session - Universal Decriminalization of Homosexuality, in light of recent developments in Uganda

EP Plenary session - EU Global Health Strategy

EP Plenary session - Dieselgate: suspected wide-spread use of defeat devices in cars to reduce effectiveness of pollution control systems

Delegation for relations with Israel - Exchange of views on the 75th Independence Day of the State of Israel and on EU-Israel longstanding relations and recent developments

Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly Meeting

EP Plenary session - Digital euro

Lex signing ceremony - signature of Five COD LEX texts by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs

EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Crypto-assets

EP Plenary session - Topical debate - Keeping people healthy, water drinkable and soil liveable: getting rid of forever pollutants and strengthening EU chemical legislation now

EP Plenary session - 80th anniversary of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto

On 25 of March 2023, millions of people around the world will celebrate Earth Hour 2023, the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment. This year again, the European Parliament will participate by switching off the lights of its building in Strasbourg.

Earth Hour Day 2023 - the European Parliament switches off its lights on the occasion of the Earth Hour 2023 event

MEPs vote on the following topics: Iran: in particular the poisoning of hundreds of school girls - Motion for resolutions; Tunisia: Recent attacks against freedom of expression and association and trade unions, in particular the case of journalist Noureddine Boutar - Motion for resolutions; Cambodia: the case of opposition leader Kem Sokha - Motion for resolutions; The EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders - Hannah NEUMANN (Greens/EFA, DE).

Voting session, including a Motion for resolution on poisoning of hundreds of school girls in Iran

MEPs debate on a European citizens’ initiative on phasing out synthetic pesticides and creating bee-friendly agriculture. Closing statement Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union.

European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment": closing statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union

MEPs debate on a European citizens’ initiative on phasing out synthetic pesticides and creating bee-friendly agriculture. MEPs debate (part 2)

European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment": MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate on a European citizens’ initiative on phasing out synthetic pesticides and creating bee-friendly agriculture. MEPs debate (part 1)

European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment": MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs debate on a European citizens’ initiative on phasing out synthetic pesticides and creating bee-friendly agriculture. Opening statements by Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA,NL), ENVI; Norbert LINS (EPP,DE), AGRI; Ana MIRANDA (Greens/EFA,ES), PETI and by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union.

European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment": opening by Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA, NL), Norbert LINS (EPP, DE), Ana MIRANDA (Greens/EFA, ES), Mairead MCGUINNESS, EU Commissioner

Parliament hold urgent debates on the following human rights, democracy and rule of law topics. Iran: in particular the poisoning of hundreds of school girls. Closing statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality.

The situation of the poisoning of hundreds of school girls in Iran

MEPs take stock of solidarity and responsibility sharing in Europe as regards migration and asylum policy. The debate focuses on how to advance on the reform of the common EU migration and asylum rules, following the November 2022 action plan by the Commission for the Central Mediterranean route and the February extraordinary European Council.

Deaths at sea - a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways: extracts from the debate

Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways. Closing statements by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs.

Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways: closing statements by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial Services and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs

MEPs take stock of solidarity and responsibility sharing in Europe as regards migration and asylum policy. The debate focuses on how to advance on the reform of the common EU migration and asylum rules, following the November 2022 action plan by the Commission for the Central Mediterranean route and the February extraordinary European Council. Second part of the debate.

Deaths at sea: a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs take stock of solidarity and responsibility sharing in Europe as regards migration and asylum policy. The debate focuses on how to advance on the reform of the common EU migration and asylum rules, following the November 2022 action plan by the Commission for the Central Mediterranean route and the February extraordinary European Council. First part of the debate.

Deaths at sea - a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs take stock of solidarity and responsibility sharing in Europe as regards migration and asylum policy. The debate focuses on how to advance on the reform of the common EU migration and asylum rules, following the November 2022 action plan by the Commission for the Central Mediterranean route and the February extraordinary European Council. Opening statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs.

Deaths at sea - a common EU response to save lives and action to ensure safe and legal pathways: opening statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Ylva JOHANSSON, European Commissioner for Home Affairs

Jens GEIER (S&D, DE), Rapporteur on the directive on the internal markets for renewable and natural gases and hydrogen, holds a press conference in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg.

Press conference by Jens GEIER (S&D, DE), Rapporteur on the directive on the internal markets for renewable and natural gases and hydrogen

Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs on behalf of the Swedish Presidency of the Council asign 6 COD LEX on Southern Bluefin Tuna, ELTIF Regulation, National Accounts, Union Secure Connectivity Programme 2023-27, Brexit Withdrawal Agreement/Trade and Cooperation Agreement, MDR and IVDR

Lex signing ceremony: signature of six COD LEX texts by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs

Silicon Valley Bank (SB) was shut down on Friday 10th March 2023. This was the largest failure of a US bank since the financial crisis in 2008. MEPs request a debate on the implications of the failure and the impcations for financial stability in Europe. Extracts from the debate. The transcription is the result of an automatic process. Please, check against delivery.

The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and the implications for financial stability in Europe: extracts from the debate

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Albin KURTI, Kosovan Prime Minister, in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg. Extracts from the arrival, welcome and roundtable

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Albin KURTI, Kosovan Prime Minister: arrival, welcome and roundtable

MEPs vote on the following topics: Recommendation to the Council taking stock of the functioning of the EEAS and for a stronger EU in the world - Urmas PAET (Renew, EE), EU/United States Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV - Bernd LANGE (S&D, DE), The further repressions against the people of Belarus - Motions for resolutions, European Semester for economic policy coordination 2023 - Irene TINAGLI (S&D, IT), European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023 - Estrella DURÁ FERRANDIS (S&D, ES), Implementation report on the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU - Pedro SILVA PEREIRA (S&D, PT), EU-Armenia relations - Andrey KOVATCHEV (EPP, BG) and EU-Azerbaijan relations - Željana ZOVKO (EPP, HR).

Voting session, including The further repressions against the people of Belarus and the Implementation report on the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU

To mark International Women’s Day (8 March), Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Italian astronaut and commander of the International Space Station Samantha Cristoforetti address MEPs on this debate. MEPs discuss the challenges that human rights defenders face in standing up for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Family photo and closing of the ceremony.

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