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

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change

EP Plenary session - The future of European competitiveness

Austrian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

EP Plenary session - Pre-enlargement reforms and policy reviews

EP Plenary session - Interinstitutional Body for Ethical Standards

EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Anti Money Laundering

EP Plenary session - Combating violence against women and domestic violence

EP Plenary session - Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market

EP Plenary session - Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims

EP Plenary session - Common rules promoting the repair of goods

Bureau Away Days.- visit of the Luxembourg European Building

EP Plenary session - Joint debate - European Semester

EP Plenary session - The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of Russian aggression against Ukraine

International Women's day 2022 -Ensuring gender balance on all levels in the European Parliament:  Improving horizontal and vertical representation

Extraordinary Constitutive Meeting of the European Parliament's new Bureau - Family photo

EP Plenary Session - Oral question - MeToo and harassment – the consequences for the EU institutions

FEMM Committee - Eliminating Violence against Women

EP Plenary session - Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches

FEMM Committee - Gender Equality Index

FEMM Committee - Public Hearing - Afghan Women as Peace Builders and Community Leaders Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

FEMM Committee - Public hearing - Enhancing gender equality through common European action on care

Statement by Evelyn REGNER, Chair of the FEMM Committee on the situation of women in Afghanistan

Meeting of the Conference of Committee Chairs

FEMM-BUDG-CONT extraordinary joint meeting - Gender Mainstreaming in the EU budget: time to turn words into action

Tax transparency trilogue - Statement

FEMM LIBE joint committee - Gender based violence as new area of crime

EP Plenary session - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: interim report

UN CSW 65 Side event : Gender equality in the Covid-19 recovery

&lt;p>The Commission adopted the Taxonomy Delegated Act on 9 March 2022. It proposes the inclusion, under certain conditions, of specific nuclear and gas energy activities in the list of environmentally sustainable economic activities covered by the so-called EU Taxonomy. second part of the debate.&lt;/p>

Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

Following the US Supreme Court’s vote to overturn guaranteed nationwide protection of abortion rights on 24 June, MEPs reaffirm their support for both the provision of and advocacy for the right and access to legal and safe abortion care.

US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health including in the EU: MEPs debate

Jasmila ŽBANIĆ, Film Director of "Quo Vadis Aïda?", winner of the 2022 edition of the Lux Audience Award, gives a press conference with Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT). The winner of the LUX Audience Award – jointly awarded by Parliament and the European Film Academy, in partnership with the European Commission and the Europa Cinemas network – is selected jointly by MEPs and a European audience (each accounting for 50% of the final decision). Munira Subašić, a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide and Michael DOWNEY OBE, Chair of the European Film Academy, participate also to the press conference.

Press conference by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) and Jasmila ŽBANIĆ, Film Director of "Quo Vadis Aïda?", winner of the 2022 edition of the Lux Audience Award

The provisional agreement reached on Tuesday night on the draft legislation aims to ensure gender parity on boards of publicly listed companies in the EU. At least 40% of non-executive directors should be women. The so-called “Women on Boards” Directive aims to introduce transparent recruitment procedures in companies, so that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex. Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), FEMM, Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), JURI and Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality speak to the press following the conclusion of the trilogue.

Press conference by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), FEMM, Lara WOLTERS (S&D, NL), JURI and Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality on the Outcome of Women on boards trilogue

QUO,VADIS AIDA? by Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić, wins the LUX Audience Award 2022. The other two films shortlisted for the award were: Flee by Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen and Great Freedom by Austrian director Sebastian Meise. In Strasbourg, the finalists give presentations in front of MEPs. Roberta METSOLA, EP President gives the price to Jasmila Žbanić and pays tribute to Munira Subašić, Srebrenica massacre survivor and president of Mothers of Srebrenica Association.

Lux Audience Award 2022: extracts from the ceremony and statement by the winner, Jasmila Zbanic, director of "Quo Vadis, Aida?" and from Munira Subašić, Srebrenica massacre survivor

MEPs debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday on the Commission proposal implementing the international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The draft text calls for a review clause that would allow for the annual revenue threshold above which a multinational corporation would be subject to the minimum tax rate to be revised. MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union.

Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups: MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union

Parliament debate and vote on how to protect women fleeing Ukraine from violence and trafficking, and on granting them access to essential health services. MEPs strongly condemn the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war and to express their deep concern about the growing number of reports of human trafficking, sexual violence, exploitation, rape and abuse faced by women and children fleeing Ukraine. First part of the debate.

The impact of the war against Ukraine on women: MEPs debate (part 1/2)

In a draft report to be debated on Monday and put to a vote on Wednesday, MEPs call on member states to take practical measures to ensure that women have equal access to the labour market, with equal pay and equal labour rights.

Equality between women and men in the European Union in 2018-2020: MEPs debate

MEPs debate for more to be done to stop gender-based cyberviolence, in light of the worrisome increase in those affected by it during the COVID-19 pandemic. MEPs will consider offline and online gender-based violence as facets of the same problem. Continuation of the debate.

Combating gender-based cyberviolence: MEPs debate (continuation)

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November), MEPs hold a debate on the lack of progress regarding the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. Continuation of the first part of the debate.

The International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women and the State of play on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention: MEPs debate (continuation of part 1/2)

MEPs debate new law obliging multinationals to publically declare what taxes they pay in each EU country for the benefit of the public and tax authorities, also known as public country-by-country reporting. Closing statements by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth and by Evelyn REGNER (S&D,AT) and by Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO (S&D,ES), co-Rapporteurs.

Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches: closing statements by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation and Research, and by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) and by Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO (S&D, ES), co-rapporteurs

MEPs debate new law obliging multinationals to publically declare what taxes they pay in each EU country for the benefit of the public and tax authorities, also known as public country-by-country reporting. Opening statements by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) and by Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO (S&D, ES), co-Rapporteurs and by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.

Disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches: opening statements by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT) and by Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO (S&D, ES), co-Rapporteurs and by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation and Research

Following the success of the first edition, launched by the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee in October 2020, the European Parliament is holding a second European Gender Equality Week from 25 to 28 October. The Members of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs encourage progress and change in EU politics as well as financial and economic governance.

Women in Finance and Economics: Statements by members of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

The European Parliament hold the second European Gender Equality Week from 25 to 28 October. Several parliamentary committees and delegations organise sessions addressing gender equality issues in their policy areas. Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality explain the gender equality issues in the various policy areas.

Gender equality week: statement by Evelyn REGNER (S&D, AT), FEMM Committee Chair - atmosphere shots of the EP Committees

The FEMM Committee organises a Public Hearing entitled “Enhancing gender equality through common European action on care". The hearing examines gender aspects of provision of care, especially with regard to uneven distribution of care responsibilities in formal and informal care, but also the overrepresentation of women in the care sector, the challenges related to this at EU level including the consequences on the gender pay and gender pension gaps and on the work-life balance and the possible added value of common European action on care. Different speakers present their experiences, analysis and suggestions. The European Commission is represented by Dubravka Šuica, EC Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality (video statement).

EP Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Enhancing gender equality through common European action on care

MEPs debate and vote on a resolution that marks the one-year anniversary of the near-total abortion ban in Poland. The controversial ruling of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which came into force in January 2021 and restricts legal abortion to cases of rape or incest, or when the pregnancy endangers the mother’s life, has prompted months of protests.

The first anniversary of the de facto abortion ban in Poland: MEPs debate

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (4-7 October 2021), MEPs debate on the implications of the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (after the publication of the so-called journalistic investigation 'Panama Papers'). Second part of the debate.

Pandora Papers - implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

During the plenary session (13-16 September 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on how to identify gender-based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU. MEPs to call for gender-based violence to be classified as a crime under EU law to better protect victims, Parliament is set to call for online and offline gender-based violence to be included as a new area of crime in the EU treaties.

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