EP Plenary session - Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap

EMPL - Public Hearing ' Loneliness in the European Union '

EMPL CULT -  Confirmation hearing of Roxana MÎNZATU, European Commissioner-designate forPeople, Skills and Preparedness

ENVI ITRE ECON - Confirmation hearing of Wopke Bastiaan HOEKSTRA, European Commissioner-designate for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth

EP Plenary session -  Ensuring sustainable, decent and affordable housing in Europe - encouraging investment, private property and public housing programmes

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

Delegations for relations with Mercosur Constitutive meeting

EP Plenary session - Council and Commission statements - The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences

LUX Audience Award 2023 - Presentation of the movie ' Close ' - Talk with Lukas Dhont at the Vendôme cinema

LUX Audience Award 2023 - Presentation of the movie ' Close ' - Evelyne REGNER meets with Lukas DHONT

Euroscola

Evelyn REGNER meets with a delegation of the federal state of Burgenland

International Women's Day Celebration - Lunch

LUX European Audience Film Award 2023 - Screening - Alcarras

FEMM Committee - vote on the approval of the Pay Transparency Directive trilogue result

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Michael LUDWIG, Mayor and Governor of Vienna

Debate ' The Feminist Ukraine '

Press conference on the adoption of Women on Boards directive

EP Plenary session - Oral question - Cultural solidarity with Ukraine and a joint emergency response mechanism for cultural recovery in Europe

SPO delegation to the EP group photo

Lux Audience Film Award - Selection Panel meeting

European Parliament’s Bureau’s working lunch with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Alexander DE CROO, Belgian Prime Minister

Press conference - Lux Audience Award 2022

Press conference on the outcome of women on boards trilogue

JURI - FEMM Committees joint trilogue on Women on Boards directive

EUROLAT - Opening Session of the fourteenth Eurolat Plenary Session

&lt;p>Five films have been shortlisted for the 2023 LUX Audience Award. The rating closed on 12 June 2023. Almost 45 000 people rated the nominated films. The LUX Audience Award 2023 ceremony take place in the plenary room of the European Parliament in Brussels. Press conference by Evelyn REGNER (S&amp;D, AT), EP Vice-president and the LUX audience award winner Lukas DHONT, Director and Angelo THIJSSENS, co-writer for Close and by Michael DOWNEY: chair of EFA, Honorary Member of LUX, President of the Selection Panel. The transcription is the result of an automatic process. Please, check against delivery.&lt;/p>

Press conference by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), EP Vice-president and the LUX audience award winner Lukas DHONT, Director and Angelo THIJSSENS, co-writer for "Close" and by Michael DOWNEY: chair of EFA, Honorary Member of LUX, President of the Selection

MEPs vote on establishing the Act in Support of Ammunition Production to urgently deliver ammunition and missiles to Ukraine and to help Member States refill their stocks. By introducing targeted measures including financing, the Act aims at ramping up the EU's production capacity and addressing the current shortage of ammunition and missiles as well as their components.

Voting session: Act in Support of Ammunition Production

To provide legal certainty to business and citizens, the Commission has proposed a directive laying down rules on corporate due diligence obligations. According to the new rules, companies will be required to prevent, end or mitigate the negative impact that their activities have on human rights and the environment, such as on child labour, slavery, pollution or biodiversity loss.

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: MEPs debate

MEPs debate the measures that the Commission has adopted to alleviate the pressure on farmers in states bordering Ukraine after the banner the entry of Ukrainian grain and food products into their respective markets. First part of MEPs debate.

Ukrainian cereals on the European market: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs debate the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, in line with a 2021 Court of Justice ruling approving its implementation even without the agreement of all Member States. Second part of the debate.

Joint debate - EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women: MEPs debate (part 2)

Parliament debates and approves an agreement with EU Ministers on new legislation requiring EU companies to disclose salary information of their employees. With the aim of closing the gender pay gap, the new law includes dissuasive penalties for employers that do not comply with equal pay rules. Extracts from the debate and from the vote.

Equal pay for equal work between men and women: extracts from the debate and the vote

Parliament debates an agreement with EU Ministers on new legislation requiring EU companies to disclose salary information of their employees. With the aim of closing the gender pay gap, the new law includes dissuasive penalties for employers that do not comply with equal pay rules. MEPs debate (part 1)

Equal pay for equal work between men and women (pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms): MEPs debate (part 1)

Inflation and efforts to curb it are the focus of a plenary debate with European Central Bank President. MEPs concentrate on high inflation rates and divergences in inflation levels across the EU, seeking reassurances from Ms Lagarde about the ECB’s work to tackle it. Second part of the debate.

European Central Bank - annual report 2022: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs discuss with EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell how to respond to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran.The demonstrations, which started in mid-September after a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killeddied in the custody of ‘morality police’ for breaking strict hijab rules, have now gone on for nearly two months.

EU response to the increasing crackdown on protests in Iran: MEPs debate

All big publicly listed companies in the EU will have to take measures to boost women’s presence at their helm. The so-called “Women on Boards” Directive, which MEPs debate on, will introduce transparent recruitment procedures in companies, to ensure that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex by July 2026. Extracts from the debate and statements by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) & Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), co-Rapporteur.

Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges: extracts from the debate, statements by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) & Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), co-Rapporteurs

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), co-Rapporteurs, talk to the press following the debate and the vote on the so-called “Women on Boards” Directive. It introduces transparent recruitment procedures for businesses so that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex by July 2026.This trascription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), co-Rapporteurs on the adoption of Women on Boards directive

The so-called “Women on Boards” Directive, which MEPs will debate on Tuesday morning, will introduce transparent recruitment procedures in companies, to ensure that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex by July 2026. Closing statements by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality and by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Rapporteurs.

Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges: closing statements by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality and by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Rapporteurs

The so-called “Women on Boards” Directive, which MEPs will debate on Tuesday morning, will introduce transparent recruitment procedures in companies, to ensure that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex by July 2026. Opening statements by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Rapporteurs and by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality.

Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges: opening statements by Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL) and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Rapporteurs and by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality

The European Parliament organises the 3rd edition of the European Gender Equality Week from the 24 to the 27 of October 2022. Evelyn REGNER (S&D,AT) EP Vice-President for Gender Equality Week and by Robert BIEDROŃ (S&D,PL), FEMM Chair give statements about the stakes of the EU Gender Equality Week.

European Gender Equality Week: statements by Evelyn REGNER (S&D,AT) EP Vice-President for Gender Equality Week and by Robert BIEDROŃ (S&D,PL), FEMM Chair

On the occasion of the 3rd edition of the Gender Equality Week organised in the European Parliament in Brussels, Marcel KOLAJA (Greens/EFA, CZ), Quaestor and Chair of the Artistic Committee and Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), EP Vice president, participate to the opening of the exhibition "Art Herstory: Female perspectives in the European Parliament’s Contemporary Art Collection".The artists featured in the exhibition Herstory, which combines most recent acquisitions with a selection of older contributions to the collection, illustrate the importance and relevance of female perspectives.

Art Herstory: Female perspectives in the European Parliament’s Contemporary Art Collection: opening of the exhibition

MEPs and EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep BORRELL discuss the countrywide protests against the Islamic regime in Iran after the nationwide demonstrations were triggered by the death in Tehran on 16 September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police, who assaulted her for, they claimed, incorrectly wearing her hijab. Third part of the debate.

The death of Mahsa AMINI and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran: MEPs debate (part 3)

External and internal shots of the EP buildings in Strasbourg during the plenary session (3-6/10).

EP Plenary session (3-6/10): editing shots

MEPs vote on multiple items, including: Human rights violations in the context of forced deportation of Ukrainian civilians to and forced adoption of Ukrainian children in Russia; Violations of human rights in Uganda and Tanzania linked to the investments in fossil fuels projects; Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded - Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD (Greens/EFA,FR); Situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2020 and 2021 - Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D,ES); Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - Constanze KREHL (S&D,DE); EU Border Regions: Living labs of European Integration - Younous OMARJEE (The Left,FR); Consequences of drought, fire, and other extreme weather phenomena: increasing EU's efforts to fight climate change

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