Daniele POLATO in he EP in Strasbourg

Press conference - Election of the President of the European Commission

Multiannual framework for the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (debate)

Composition of committees and delegations : see Minutes

Opening of the sitting

Agenda of the next sitting : see Minutes

Closure of the sitting

EU preparation for a possible influx of asylum seekers from Syria (debate)

2012 progress report on Albania (debate)

Request for the waiver of parliamentary immunity : see Minutes

Situation in Ukraine (debate)

Israeli government's decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (debate)

Situation in Egypt (debate)

Monika FLAŠÍKOVÁ BEŇOVÁ - LIBE rapporteur

UNKN

Alain LAMASSOURE, Chairman of the Budgets Committee and Giovanni LA VIA ,rapporteur Budget 2013

New EU-Russia agreement (debate)

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI - AGRI rapporteur

Joaquín ALMUNIA, Vice-President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Competition

Viviane REDING, Vice -President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship and Antonio TAJANI, Vice-President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship

Annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2011 and the European Union's policy on the matter - EU's human rights strategy (debate)

EP Plenary session - Election of the new EP President

German MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Visit of Martin SCHULZ - EP President in Luxembourg

Manuel SILVA CALDEIRA, President of the Court of Auditors, on the right, and Martin SCHULZ, at the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg.

Interparliamentary meeting - conference on the Democratic oversight of Intelligence services in the European Union

DG EPRS event - Introducing the Congressional Research Service. A general presentation on the work  of the US Congressional Research Service

Queen Paola of Belgium, Nathalie GRIESBECK

Missing children: a European roadmap to safety Round table for EU decision makers and grassroots practitioners on the cross-border problem of missing children

EMPL committee meeting.  ECA special report ' EU Youth Guarantee: first steps taken but implementation risks ahead '

EMPL Committee meeting. European Court of Auditores (ECA) Member Iliana Ivanova presenting the ECA Special Report: ' EU Youth Guarantee: first steps  taken but implementation risks ahead '

Presentation of the IEMED Mediterranean Yearbook

SEDE Committee Meeting - The EU's Train and Equip initiative

ITRE Committee meeting - The roadmap for completing the Digital Single Market : Exchange of views with the Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Press Conference ' The Current Hungarian Policy towards the EU '

Martin SCHULZ - EP President meets with Habib ESSID, Prime Minister of Tunisia

ECON EMPL Joint Committee meeting - Exchange of views as part of the structural dialogue with EC Vice President and EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility

INTA - Vote on the TTIP recommendations on ongoing negotiations (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)

Interparliamentary Committee meeting - Conference on the Democratic oversight of Intelligence Services in the European Union

AFET Committee meeting with the Prime Minister of Tunisia

TAXE Special Committee on taxe ruling ad hoc Delegation to Dublin

TAXE Special Committee on taxe ruling ad hoc Delegation to Dublin  (Left-Right) Francis JACOBS EP Office Ireland, Alain LAMASSOURE Chairman TAXE COMMITTEE EP and Michael THEURER MEP GErmany, and other members of the EU Taxe Delegation arrive for the meeting with Minister of Finance Michael NOONAN  at Government Buildings, Dublin

EP President attends the high-level seminar on EU and Latin America: ' Common Challenges and Opportunities '

MEP delegations deter vote riggers. These European missionaries preach democracy and human rights worldwide. They observe elections and meet local politicians to ensure all sides play fair in fragile democracies.

How It Works: Election Observation Missions

Europe’s new diplomatic service is causing discord before it’s even set up. German EPP member Ingeborg Grässle insists that the Parliament won’t allow the Council to impose its vision of Europe’s latest foreign policy tool. And she says that the Parliamen

Interview: We won’t let the Council get away with it – Ingeborg Grässle

Europe’s fake drug market is worth 10.5 billion euros according to Pfizer. MEPs want to crack down on the online pharmacies that sell them. No-one can guarantee zero risk when taking licensed drugs, but MEPs want to ensure that side effects are kept to a

The News: Fake Drugs – EU Open for Business?

Calling all entrepreneurs! Could your business idea become the next big thing in Milan, Krakow or Valletta? Who can you go to for advice? The one-stop shops or points of single contact in officialese have been set up by the services directive to encourage

One-stop shop for business

Though drugs go through rigorous testing, not all possible side-effects can be avoided. The European Parliament's Environment Committee today looked into pharmacovigilance: the ways of avoiding as far as possible all unpleasant side-effects.

May result in death

Buying medicine online is increasingly common, but often these are fakes. Pfizer estimates the European market represents 10.5 billion euros. But it is the cost to health that worries the EP's Environment Committee which today voted through a report to in

Europe's fake drug problem

Cancer cases will double in the next 20 years, but fear of the disease is such that Europeans are reluctant to go for screening  - even when it’s free. Prevention and early detection are key to beating a disease that is the second cause of deaths in Europ

Crossborder: Cancer is still a taboo

Statements by Barbara LOCHBIHLER (Greens/EFA, DE), and F. HEREDIA, representative of the Spanish EU Council Presidency durig a meeting of the SubCommittee on Human Rights on the Human Rights in Iran in view of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the forthcoming HRC elections.

Human Rights in Iran in view of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the forthcoming HRC elections: extract from the exchange of views

The committee on development of the EP exchange views with Kristalina Georgieva, Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis respons, with the Jean-Yves Jason, Mayor of Port-au-Prince and Myrta Kaulard, the Haiti Country Director for the World Food Programme.

UN donor conference "Towards a new future for Haïti": extracts from the exchange of views - DEVE Committee

Statements by Arnaud Danjean, Didier Lenoir, Head of Integrated Strategic Planning Unit, Crisis Management Planning Directorate (CMPD) and Daniel Keohane, Research Fellow, EU Institute for Security Studies, during a public hearing on the EU Civil-Military Cooperation - A Comprehensive Approach at the EP Sub-Committee on Security and Defence.

EU Civil-Military Cooperation - A Comprehensive Approach: extracts from the public hearing

Where does the EU get its money from, how does it decide about its budget and who benefits the most? We examine the EU's budget procedure and focus in on the European Parliament's changed role in it.

How It Works: EU Budget

En route to being the 28th Member State, Croatia has strong ties with the EU. We went to Zagreb to meet Paul Vandoren, the EU's Ambassador to Croatia to see how EU diplomacy looks in a post-Lisbon Treaty context.

The Croatian connection

The Commission is like the government of the European Union. It brings together 27 Commissioners, one per country, to defend the common interest of Europeans.

A-Z: C for Commission

Passengers are up in arms about the air crisis that followed in the wake of the Icelandic volcanic eruption. French MEP Christine de Veyrac wants to see the Single European Sky project get off the ground to avoid any repeat, and for passengers and airline

Interview: We need a Single Sky as soon as possible - MEP Christine de Veyrac

Does your shopping contain GM food products? Can you tell? How can we be sure that the evidence on GMOs is based on science and not pushed by commercial interest? Do loopholes exist in European law?

Q&A:GM food for our children?

We take a look at MEPs' packed agenda for next week, and spend a day with two German MPs who have come to town to explore co-operation with the European Parliament as mandated by the Lisbon Treaty.

The News: Committee week agenda - Inter-parliamentary co-operation

In what is becoming more and more of a common practice, two national Parliamentarians from Germany came to Brussels to meet and discuss with their European counterparts. We joined them for the day.

From Parliament to Parliament

The last week of April is a busy one in the Parliament, with a round table discussion on a Common European Asylum Policy, reports on safer drugs and the prevention of air accidents, and a public hearing on exotic financial instruments. On the other hand,

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