EP Plenary session - Common rules promoting the repair of goods

LEX signing ceremony in presence of Roberta METSOLA, EP President

EMPL committee

EP Plenary session - Session Commission statement - Rising anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence: recent attacks in Thessaloniki

EP Plenary session - Artificial Intelligence Act

EP Plenary session - Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

EP Plenary session - Resumption of session and order of business

EP Plenary session - Data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services

EP Plenary session - Need to overcome the Council deadlock on the platform workers directive - Council and Commission statements

EMPL - Trilogue on platform work

EP Plenary session - Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of 'l'Abbé Pierre's appeal' on addressing homelessness in the context of persisting poverty and social exclusion

EP Plenary session - Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025

EP Plenary session - Topical debate (Rule 162) - The fight against hate speech and disinformation: responsibility of social platforms within the Digital Services Act

EP Plenary session - Extending the list of EU crimes to hate speech and hate crime

EP Plenary session - Oral question - The role of social award criteria in public procurement in strengthening social rights, good working conditions and inclusive labour markets

MEPs debate on an agreement on new rules to ensure that products in the EU, whether sold online or in traditional shops, comply with the highest safety requirements. The new law includes more effective procedures for product recalls and the removal of dangerous goods online.

General Product Safety Regulation: MEPs debate

The data act establishes common rules governing the sharing of data generated by the use of connected products or related services (e.g. the internet of things, industrial machines) to ensure fairness in data sharing contracts. Second part of the debate.

Data Act: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs discuss on recent revelations concerning Uber’s lobbying practices in the EU. In particular, the plenary debate inquires about the situation of Uber drivers in Europe, and the extent to which Uber’s former lobbying activities have affected their labour and social rights.

Revelations of Uber lobbying practices in the EU: MEPs debate

Parliament calls for harmonized rules to protect players, especially kids, and measures to help the innovative video games sector expand.The draft text, on which MEPs debate on demands better protection for gamers, especially children, from gaming addiction and manipulative practices. Extracts from the debate, from the vote and statement by Adriana MALDONADO LÓPEZ (S&D, ES), Rapporteur.

Consumer protection in online video games - a European Single Market approach: extracts from the debate, from the vote and statement by Adriana MALDONADO LÓPEZ (S&D, ES), Rapporteur

MEPs debate on the 30th anniversary of the EU single market. Since its creation in 1993, the single market has helped to make everyday life easier for people and businesses, creating jobs and fuelling growth across the EU. It is, according to the draft resolution, the “engine of European integration and the backbone of its economy”.

30th Anniversary of the Single Market: MEPs debate (part 1)

Parliament debates with Council and Commission EU plans for mental health policy. MEPs quiz the Commission on what specific EU actions and proposals it is planning, in order to complement and coordinate member state mental health policy activities.

Mental health: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: MEPs debate

Parliament debates the new law establishing a single charging solution for mobile phones, tablets and other portable electronics in the EU. From autumn 2024, a whole range of small and medium-sized portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras and headphones, will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C charging port. This law is part of a broader effort to make products in the EU more sustainable, reduce e-waste and make consumers’ lives easier. MEPs debate.

Radio Equipment Directive - common charger for electronic devices: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs debate on the provisional agreements to strengthen the EU’s capacity to prevent and control communicable diseases and tackle cross-border health threats. Opening statements by the Rapporteurs Joanna KOPCIŃSKA (ECR, PL), Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health, José Manuel FERNANDES (EPP, PT) BUDG committee and by Kim VAN SPARRENTAK (Greens/EFA, NL), IMCO committee. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Joint Debate - European Health Union: opening statements by Joanna KOPCIŃSKA (ECR, PL), Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR (Renew, FR), Rapporteurs and by Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health

The landmark EU digital rules oblige online companies to protect users from illegal content, increase accountability and limit the market power of tech giants. Parliament holds the final vote on the new Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), two key bills aiming to address the societal and economic effects of the tech industry by setting standards for a safer, more open digital space for users and fairer digital market for businesses.

Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

The European Parliament condemn the backsliding in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the US and globally, calling for safe access to abortion.

Global threats to abortion rights - the possible overturn of abortion rights in the US by the Supreme Court: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee MEPs discusses the impact of the recently agreed Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. The discussion focuses in particular on how the Digital Services Act could set the global benchmark for regulating online platforms in the future.

EP Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection with Frances HAUGEN, Facebook whistleblower: exchange of views with MEPs

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)

MEPs debate and vote on the final report by the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age. The text says the EU must set global AI standards and unlock its enormous potential to address challenges in the fields of health, the environment and climate change.

Artificial intelligence in a digital age: MEPs debate (part 2/2)

A new “right to repair” must encompass long-lasting products that can be fixed, labelling to better inform consumers and extending guarantee rights. The draft text stresses that an effective right to repair should address a product’s lifecycle and take into account product design, ethical production, standardisation, labelling on reparability and on the expected lifespan of a product. First part of the debate

Right to repair: MEPs debate (part 1/2)

MEPs debate on the programme, challenges and opportunities of the European Year of Youth 2022. In particular, they will address the devastating effect of the COVID-19 crisis on young Europeans’ employment, education and mental health, MEPs urged the prioritization of the needs of young people. In particular MEPs demanded the EU make mental health an integral part of Europe’s socio-economic recovery from the pandemic, as well as making it an occupational health priority.

Topical debate - One youth, one Europe: MEPs debate

Parliament debates on its position on the Digital Markets Act, which sets rules on what big online platforms will be allowed to do and not do in the EU. First part of the debate.

Digital Markets Act (DMA): MEPS debate (part 1/2)

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.

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