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Flavio TOSI in the EP in Strasbourg

Chloé RIDEL in the EP in Strasbourg

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

EP Plenary session - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Foreign interference and espionage by third country actors in European universities

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

EP Plenary session - 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

EP Plenary session - Recommendation on smoke and aerosol-free environments

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

EP Plenary session - Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law

Strasbourg's Plenary session through the lens . Week 48

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

81st EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary meeting

EP Plenary session - Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Joakim STRAND, Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering of Finland

Opening statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality on Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea: Opening statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality

Closing statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality on Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea: Closing statement by Helena DALLI, European Commissioner for Equality

Commission statement on Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea.

Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea: MEPs debate

President Roberta METSOLA and a representative of the Hungarian Presidency, János BÓKA, Minister for European Union Affairs sign seventeen COD LEX in Strasbourg.

Lex Signing: extracts from the ceremony

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, and Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission, hold a press conference following the Parliament’s vote on the College of Commissioners. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Joint press conference by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission following the Parliament’s vote on the College of Commissioners

MEPs approve a deal on 2025’s EU budget to address current challenges and managing repayment costs for the EU’s recovery plan. During negotiations with member states, Parliament obtained more than €230 million in funding beyond the Commission's initial draft proposal, to better focus on key EU programmes and policies aimed at improving people's lives, boosting competitiveness, and addressing challenges like climate, health, migration or defence. Negotiators also agreed on a solution to cover repayment costs for the European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI). The preliminary figures are €199.44 billion in commitment appropriations and €155.21 billion in payment appropriations.

2025 budgetary procedure: extracts from the debate (26.11) and extracts from the voting session (27.11)

Roberta METSOLA, EP President makes a declaration after the vote on the MUREŞAN BUDG Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates; and on NEGRESCU, HERBST BUDG 2025 budgetary procedure during the plenary session in Strasbourg

Declaration on the adoption of the General Budget for 2025 by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

MEPs vote during the plenary session in Strasbourg on the MUREŞAN BUDG Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates; and on NEGRESCU, HERBST BUDG 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text. For the EU’ 2025 budget, MEPs secured more effective support to address challenges such as health, humanitarian aid, border management and climate action. The 2025 budget was adopted with 418 votes to 185 and 67 abstentions. Council already endorsed the deal on 25 November.

Votes on EU budget 2025

MEPs vote on several topics: Cunha (A10-0015/2024) - Amending short-stay visas regulation (EU) 2018/1806) as regards Vanuatu; Objection pursuant to Rule 114(3): Measures to reduce incidental catches of common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and other small cetaceans in the Bay of Biscay; and Lupo (A10-0020/2024) - Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods occurred in 2024. Statement by Giuseppe LUPO, (S&D, IT) before the announcement of the results of the vote.

Votes on short-stay visas regulation; incidental catches of common dolphin; and assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods

President METSOLA signs the transmission letter on the election of the European Commission and presents to Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission the signed transmission letter. While most of the MEP's are applauding, Roberta METSOLA and Ursula VON DER LEYEN do a picture together with the transmission letter. Ursula VON DER LEYEN gets congratulations by most oft the group leaders and shakes hands with some of the new commissioners.

Signature of the Transmission Letter on the election of the European Commission by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Following a debate with Ursula von der Leyen on her new team and programme, MEPs elected the College of Commissioners as a whole by roll-call vote. 370 MEPs voted in favour, 282 against, and 36 abstained.

Vote on the election of the College of Commissioners: Parliament approves the “von der Leyen II” Commission

Parliament’s committees subjected each Commissioner-designate to individual public hearings between 4 and 12 November. MEPs assessed their suitability to become Commissioners, as well as their ability to carry out the duties linked to their respective portfolios. Once Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (President Metsola and the political group leaders) has conducted the final evaluation and declared the hearings process closed, the full Parliament will vote on the entire list of candidates. The roll call vote on the new Commission is scheduled for Wednesday at noon.

Vote on resolution on the presentation by the Commission President-elect of the College of Commissioners and its programme

Family photo with the College of new elected commissioners after the voting session and the debate with European Commission President-elect von der Leyen on her team and programme.

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

Leaders of the political group make a statement before the vote on the election of the College of Commissioners in Strasbourg.

Vote on the election of the College of Commissioners: one round of political group leaders in reverse order

This news item shows atmosphere shots from the voting session following the debate with European Commission President-elect von der Leyen on her team and programme ant the Signature of the Transmission Letter on the Election of the European Commission. MEPs elected the College of Commissioners as a whole by roll-call vote - 370 MEPs voted in favour, 282 against, and 36 abstained. This will be Ursula von der Leyen’s second term as Commission President, following the approval of her first Commission by MEPs in November 2019.

Presentation by the Commission President-elect of the College of Commissioners and its programme: atmosphere shots from the voting session

MEPs debate with European Commission President-elect von der Leyen on her team and programme. Any political group or at least one-twentieth of MEPs (low threshold) may table a motion for a resolution. Once elected by Parliament and after its formal appointment by the European Council via a qualified majority, the new European Commission is expected to take up its duties on 1 December 2024. MEPs debate (part 3)

Presentation by the Commission President-elect of the College of Commissioners and its programme: MEPs debate (part 3)

MEPs debate with European Commission President-elect von der Leyen on her team and programme. Any political group or at least one-twentieth of MEPs (low threshold) may table a motion for a resolution. Once elected by Parliament and after its formal appointment by the European Council via a qualified majority, the new European Commission is expected to take up its duties on 1 December 2024. MEPs debate (part 2)

Presentation by the Commission President-elect of the College of Commissioners and its programme: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate with European Commission President-elect von der Leyen on her team and programme. Any political group or at least one-twentieth of MEPs (low threshold) may table a motion for a resolution. Once elected by Parliament and after its formal appointment by the European Council via a qualified majority, the new European Commission is expected to take up its duties on 1 December 2024. MEPs debate (part 1)

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