Last minute session briefing

Resumption of the session

Opening of the sitting

Statement by the President

Approval of the minutes of the previous sittings

Composition of committees and delegations

Corrigenda (Rule 251) (action taken)

Corrigenda (Rule 251)

Signature of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 81)

Order of business

Resumption of the sitting

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

The outcome of the G20 Leaders' Summit

Outcome of the UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 in Cali, Colombia (COP16)

Condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of independence of the secessionist entity in Cyprus and all efforts to legitimise it and reaffirming the need for European solidarity - 41 years after

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Agenda of the next sitting

Approval of the minutes of the sitting

Closure of the sitting

Plenary session

Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

ENVI

Joint committee on Employment and Social Affairs and committee meeting on Regional Development

EMPL

REGI

Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia

Voting time

2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text

The Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast: a gradual rebound in an adverse environment

Question Time (Commission) - Challenges in the implementation of cohesion policy 2021-2027

Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants

Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy

Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders

Prison conditions in the EU

Urgent need to tackle the gender pay gap

Political and humanitarian situation in Mozambique

Explanations of vote

Briefing EPP by Manfred WEBER (EPP,DE), President

Briefing S&D by Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, (S&D,ES), President

Briefing Renew Europe by Valérie HAYER (Renew,FR), President

Briefing Greens/EFA by Bas EICKHOUT (Greens/EFA,NL) and Terry REINTKE (Greens/EFA,DE), Co-Presidents

Briefing The Left by Manon AUBRY (The Left,FR) and Martin SCHIRDEWAN (The Left,DE), Co-Presidents

Press conference by Victor NEGRESCU (S&D, RO), general rapporteur for the EU budget 2025 (for section III - Commission), and Niclas HERBST (EPP, DE), rapporteur for the other sections ahead of the vote on the EU budget 2025 agreement

Corrigenda (Rule 251) (action taken)

Presentation by the Commission President-elect of the College of Commissioners and its programme

Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU

Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea

Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty

Recent legislation targeting LGBTQI persons and the need for protecting the rule of law and a discrimination-free Union

Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU

Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 150)

The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria

Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments

Explications de vote

Agenda for next sitting

Press conference by René AUST (ESN, DE), Co-president, Christine ANDERSON (ESN, DE), Harald VILIMSKY (PfE, AU) and Gerald HAUSER (PfE, AU) on reappraisal of policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine procurement scandals

Joint press conference by President Metsola and President von der Leyen following the Parliament’s vote on the College of Commissioners

Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee

Delegations for relations with Palestine

Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee

Delegation meeting for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union

Council position at first reading (Rule 64)

Strengthening children’s rights in the EU - 35th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Foreign interference and espionage by third country actors in European universities

Need to adopt an ambitious international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment

Clár Streamála

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