EP Plenary session - Commission statement - Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States

MEPs outline their demands and expectations for the EU-Ukraine summit in a debate with the Commission and Council. They expect to reiterate their call that the EU should continue to support the country, for a special tribunal to punish Russian crimes and support to immediately deploy modern weapons and a next-generation air defence system to Ukraine. First part of the debate.

Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs outline their demands and expectations for the EU-Ukraine summit in a debate with the Commission and Council. They expect to reiterate their call that the EU should continue to support the country, for a special tribunal to punish Russian crimes and support to immediately deploy modern weapons and a next-generation air defence system to Ukraine.

Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit: one round of political group leaders

MEPs outline their demands and expectations for the EU-Ukraine summit in a debate with the Commission and Council. They expect to reiterate their call that the EU should continue to support the country, for a special tribunal to punish Russian crimes and support to immediately deploy modern weapons and a next-generation air defence system to Ukraine. Opening statements by Pål JONSON, Swedish Minister of Defence and and by Johannes HAHN, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit: opening statements by Pål JONSON, Swedish Minister of Defence and Johannes HAHN, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration

MEPs outline their demands and expectations for the 3 February EU-Ukraine summit in a debate with the Commission and Council. Members reiterate their call that the EU should continue to support the country, for a special tribunal to punish Russian crimes and support to immediately deploy modern weapons and a next-generation air defence system to Ukraine.

Preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit: extracts from the debate

Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has caused vast displacement of people within the country as well as across the EU borders. While the annexation of Crimea had a negative impact on the country's education system, recent events have added additional strain. Outbound student mobility was already substantial in recent years, but it has accelerated even further since the Crimean conflict began. After doubling from some 25 000 to nearly 50 000 between 2007 and 2014, the number of Ukrainian students abroad has since skyrocketed by another 54 % to around 78 000 in 2019. Some 480 Ukrainian students are currently engaged in Erasmus+ activities via the programme's international strand. In the 2015-2019 programming period, Ukraine received 40 % of the available funding in the Eastern Partnership region, and over 9 000 Ukrainian students and staff participated in more than 1 300 Erasmus projects.

EPRS - Ukrainian students in the EU

Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine has raised a widespread international concern of a global food crisis similar, or worse, to the one the world faced in 2007-2008. Russia and Ukraine are key agricultural players which, combined, export nearly 12 % of the food calories traded globally, and are major providers of basic agro-commodities. Learn more in our previous video: https://youtu.be/cJBlBGuL_88 The military aggression has generated a significant reduction of exports and production of essential commodities from the two countries at war, and a global spike in food, fertilisers and energy prices. The EU, where food supply is not at stake, has reacted swiftly to prevent a global food crisis.

EPRS - EU food security responses to the war in Ukraine

With winter at our doorstep, we are all worried about high energy prices, which have been soaring, since the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU imported more than 40 % of its gas from Russia. These deliveries are all but gone, a decision taken in Moscow, not Brussels. As a consequence, the EU has to look elsewhere for its natural gas imports. The gas shortage is not only increasing the price of gas itself, but also that of electricity. Restrictions: ©The material may not be edited and must be shown entirely. #energyprices #RussiaUkraineWar

EPRS - High energy prices

Russia launched its war on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, but Russian cyber-attacks against Ukraine have persisted ever since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, intensifying just before the 2022 invasion. Over this period, Ukraine’s public, energy, media, financial, business and non-profit sectors have suffered the most. The European Parliament has called for stepping up cybersecurity assistance to Ukraine and for making full use of the EU’s cyber-sanctions regimes against individuals, entities and bodies responsible for or involved in the various cyber-attacks targeting Ukraine. Restrictions: ©The material may not be edited and must be shown entirely.

EPRS - Building cyber resilience in Ukraine and the EU

In an unprecedented and unanimous reaction to Russia's war on Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022, the EU swiftly decided to make available €500 million from the European Peace Facility – followed soon after by additional financing – to fund EU military assistance and to deliver military equipment to Ukraine. For the first time in its history, the EU is now using a dedicated, although off-budget, tool to finance – but not to deliver, with that responsibility falling on Member States alone – lethal military equipment to a third country.

EPRS - The EU's financing of military assistance to Ukraine

MEPs vote on the following topics: Humanitarian consequences of the blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh - Motions for resolutions, The storming of the Brazilian democratic institutions - Motions for resolutions, Situation of journalists in Morocco, notably the case of Omar Radi - Motions for resolutions, The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine - Motions for resolutions, EU response to the protests and executions in Iran - Motions for resolutions, Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2021 - Angelika WINZIG (EPP,AT), Protection of the European Union’s financial interests -combating fraud - annual report 2021 - Sabrina PIGNEDOLI (NI,IT), Small-scale fisheries situation in the EU and future Perspectives - João PIMENTA LOPES (The Left, PT), Revision of European Works Councils Directive - Dennis RADTKE (EPP, DE).

Voting session: including the motion for resolutions on the EU response to the protests and executions, and the The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine

During the plenary session in Strasbourg, Roberta METSOLA, EP President, announces the crash of a helicopter in Ukraine, killing eighteen people, including Ukraine's interior affair minister, Denys Monastyrsky. His first deputy minister and the state secretary also died.

Announcement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, of the crash of the helicopter killing Ukrainian Ministers

MEPs debate on how to strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine, in particular on the EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro. Closing statements by Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs.

The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro: closing statements by Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs.

MEPs debate on how to strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine, in particular on the EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro.

The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on how to strengthening sanctions against the Putin regime and military support to Ukraine, in particular on the EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro. Opening statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice.

The EU’s response to the appalling attack against civilians in Dnipro: opening statements by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and by Didier REYNDERS, European Commissioner for Justice

MEPs quiz Commission representatives on the prospects of establishing a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Extracts from the debate and the vote on the resolution, which is adopted.

The establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine: extracts from the debate (17/01) and extracts from the vote

Powerful. Moving. Visionary. There were speeches in the history of the European Union that have made Europe the way it is today. In this short video, you can see a selection of famous quotes from:TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, LOUISE WEISS, FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND, HELMUT KOHL, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, NADIA MURAD, TOOMAS ILVES, TIMOTHY SNYDER, ROBERTA METSOLA, SVIATLANA TSIKHANOUSKAYA, VACLAV HAVEL, GRETA THUNBERG Restrictions: ©The material may not be edited and must be shown entirely. Powerful. Moving. Visionary. There were speeches in the history of the European Union that have made Europe the way it is today. In this short video, you can see a selection of famous quotes from:

EPRS - Speeches that have made Europe

Iconic locations around the world will turn off their lights on December 21 in solidarity with Ukraine #LightUpUkraine - Ukraine’s President calls for solidarity with Ukraine and its people in the darkest day of the year as Ukraine faces a winter of blackouts and war because of Russia’s illegal invasion - #LightUpUkraine campaign to take place as Christmas season begins, with iconic sites around the world – including Trafalgar Square in London, the Rockefeller Center in New York, Paris City Hall, and Rynok Square in Wrocław – around the world expected to go dark

UNITED24 - Solidarity with Ukraine - turning off lights of the EP buildings video message of Volodymyr ZELENSKYY - #LightUpUkraine

During her official visit in Romania, Roberta METSOLA, EP President, holds a joint press conference with Klaus IOHANNIS, President of Romania. They mention the topics discussed during their meeting: Romania's accession to Schengen, the war in Ukraine and the refugees hosted by Romania, the energy crsis and the criminal proceedings involving the European Parliament. Roberta METSOLA reaffirms that reforms are coming and that there will be zero tolerance.

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