Press briefing The Left

Last minute briefing

Committee on Development

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Committee on Budgets

Committee on Petitions

Press Conference: Danuta HÛBNER- Chair of the Regional Development Committee, Constanze KREHL, Lambert Van NISTELROOIJ, Jan OLBRYCHT, Victor BOSTINARU, Riika MANNER and Joachim Zeller

Committee on Fisheries

Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Committee on International Trade

Special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering

Committee on Regional Development

Subcommittee on Human Rights

Spanish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Polish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Swedish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Italian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Greek MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Informal meeting of EU Leaders ( EUCO )

Dutch MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Medals presentation ceremony for civil servants in Brussels in July 1996.

Meeting with a delegation from the Palestinian Legislative Coubncil on September 29, 1996.

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets Toomas SAVI Speaker of the Estonian Riigikogu, in Brussels in July 1996.

Martin SCHULZ - EP President  gives a speech at the Foro de la Nueva Economia, in Madrid on March 6, 2015.

Eastman Construction site, Renovation, House of European History

House of European History - Outside view of the Building during works

Yves-Thibault de SILGUY, European Commissioner addresses the Subcommittee on Monetary Affairs in July 1996.

The MEP Per GAHRTON in Brussels in July 1996.

Lamberto DINI, Klaus HANSCH EP President, Romano PRODI

EP photo

Michael N. ELLIOTT, Edward NEWMAN, Gary TITLEY, Glyn FORD

MEPs meet Stephen EDMUND FROW  in Brussels in July 1996.

Sawkat CHOUDHURY, Claudia ROTH Saskia DARU

Speak Out for Refugees Rights in Brussels in June 1996.

The MEP Leo C. TINDEMANS during a meeting in Strasbourg in June 1996.

The MEP Wayne DAVID during a meeting in Brussels in June 1996.

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets a group of German cyclists in Brussels in June 1996.

Jacques SANTER EC President during a session in Strasbourg in June 1996.

Christa RANDZIO-PLATH during a meeting in Strasbourg in June 1996.

MEP Nel B.M. van DIJK at the EP in Strasbourg in June 1996.

Pelle from Sweden is interested to know why MEPs don't have the same powers to propose laws as their national counterparts. How it Works investigates the legislative role of the MEPs.

How It Works: Can MEPs make laws?

Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate meets with Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President, meets with Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate: meeting and extracts from the press point

MEPs Sarah Ludford, Antonio Masip Hidalgo and Simon Busuttil discuss the ins and outs of immigration policy in Europe. Neither mass regularisation nor fortress Europe is the solution, so what do they suggest?

How We Do It: Rationalise policy on illegal immigrants (long version)

How We Do It: Rationalise policy on illegal immigrants

A directive was approved to put an end to illegal employment by placing the penalties on the employer rather than the employee. It was argued by shifting the burden away from the vulnerable to those in power the practice of illegal employment would be sto

Flashback: Employers to pay penalties for illegal employees

Re-elected as an MEP, the outgoing President is still very much occupied with the question of the future President of the Commission, whom he expects to be Barroso. At the end of his mandate, Pöttering is pleased with the progress of the EP and hopes it w

Interview Today: Hans-Gert Pöttering remains active in the EP

Interview Today: Hans-Gert Pöttering remains active in the EP (extended version)

In the European elections early June, the abstention rate in Slovakia was the highest in the whole of the EU. What are the reasons for this shocking record?

Europarl Today: Voter apathy in Slovakia (extended version)

Europarl Today: Voter apathy in Slovakia

Cross-border healthcare is helping many Europeans to receive urgent treatment that they can't access in their home country. But some MEPs are worried that it will create medical tourism with poorer patients losing out. However, those benefiting from speci

Holiday Hospital

The European Elections threw the traditional right-left balance off centre. Though the centre-right EPP enlarged their majorities, fringe groups are springing up across the EU. In the meantime, the Greens have planted firm roots, while other groups seem r

The Debate: A colourful new Parliament

From 7pm to 1am interviews, reports and debates were broadcast live by EuroparlTV. In the studio a cartoonist captured the atmosphere, and students reacted to the results.

Whirlwind election night

Hans-Gert Pöttering insists on the immediate release of this imprisoned Burmese opposition politician. The EP expects that the ASEAN Countries and the Council of the EU express their political and moral support for Aung San Suu Kyi and convince Burma to s

Interview Today: The European Parliament demands the release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Registration, photo call and a guided tour. Newly elected MEPs are arriving at the Parliament. We followed Isabelle Durant who was the first to step into her new role.

The first steps for a new MEP

UEN and IND/DEM, whose stomping grounds are right of the centre are now threatened with a slimming down of their political groups after the Tories withdrew from the centre-right EPP group and are looking for right-leaning allies. The left found a firmer f

Europarl Today: New EP creates a battle for the right

Europarl Today: New EP creates a battle for the right (Extended version)

José Bové made his name as a radical most recently being jailed in France for destroying transgenic crops. He hopes to channel his radicalism in a pragmatic manner to overturn the predominant economic model in Europe to one which is more social, and above

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