<p>The European Parliament has its seat in Strasbourg in France where the 12 monthly part-sessions, including the session at which the decision on the annual EU budget is taken, should be held.</p>

<p>Find in this package, audiovisual content of the activities of the European Parliament in Strasbourg such as atmosphere inside and outside the buildings and parliamentary work..</p>

The European Parliament in Strasbourg

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EP Plenary session - EU funding of physical border protection structures such as walls, fences or other barriers at the external border

EP Plenary session - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Cryptocurrencies - need for global standards

Minority Intergroup meeting

ENVI  Extraordinary meeting - Exchange of views with Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Minister of Climate and Environment, Polish Council Presidency

EP Plenary session - Combating Desertification: 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention

Strasbourg's Plenary session through the lens - Week 4

EP Plenary session - Stepping up international action to protect whales following Iceland’s decision to extend commercial whaling until 2029

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

EP Plenary session - EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency

EP Plenary session - Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports

Quaestors' meeting

EP Plenary session - Failure of the negotiations in Busan for a UN plastic treaty and the urgent need to tackle plastic pollution at international and Union level

EP Plenary session - Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox

EP Plenary session - Uniting Europe against actors hostile to the EU: time to strengthen our security and defence

MEPs debate the newly proposal which aims to improve existing anti-corruption frameworks, proactively tackle corruption at the policy-making level, support EU countries in their efforts and leverage the annual rule of law report. Closing statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights.

Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework: closing statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights

MEPs debate the newly proposal which aims to improve existing anti-corruption frameworks, proactively tackle corruption at the policy-making level, support EU countries in their efforts and leverage the annual rule of law report. MEPs debate.

Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework: MEPs debate

MEPs debate the newly proposal which aims to improve existing anti-corruption frameworks, proactively tackle corruption at the policy-making level, support EU countries in their efforts and leverage the annual rule of law report. Opening statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Update of the anti-corruption legislative framework: opening statement by Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights

Johan VAN OVERTVELDT (ECR, BE), Chair of the BUDG Committee, José Manuel FERNANDES (EPP, PT) and Valérie HAYER (Renew, FR), co-rapporteurs, hold a press conference on EU budget in Strasbourg.This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Johan VAN OVERTVELDT (ECR, BE), Chair of the BUDG Committee, José Manuel FERNANDES (EPP, PT) and Valérie HAYER (Renew, FR), co-rapporteurs on EU budget: Repaying the recovery plan, new "Own Resources"

MEPs debate the measures that the Commission has adopted to alleviate the pressure on farmers in states bordering Ukraine after the banner the entry of Ukrainian grain and food products into their respective markets. Closing statements by Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, European Commissioner for Agriculture; and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs.

Ukrainian cereals on the European market: Closing statements by Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, European Commissioner for Agriculture; and by Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs

MEPs debate the measures that the Commission has adopted to alleviate the pressure on farmers in states bordering Ukraine after the banner the entry of Ukrainian grain and food products into their respective markets. Second part of MEPs debate.

Ukrainian cereals on the European market: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate the measures that the Commission has adopted to alleviate the pressure on farmers in states bordering Ukraine after the banner the entry of Ukrainian grain and food products into their respective markets. First part of MEPs debate.

Ukrainian cereals on the European market: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs request details about new measures that the Commission has adopted to alleviate the pressure on farmers in states bordering Ukraine. These states have been facing pressure on grain prices due to imports through Solidarity Lanes open for Ukrainian agricultural products. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia banned the entry of Ukrainian grain and food products into their respective markets in April. Extracts from the debate.

Ukrainian cereals on the European market: extracts from the debate

Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Jessika ROSWALL, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs signs various COD LEX texts. Equal Pay Directive, Proposal for a Regulation on general product safety, amending Regulation Social Climate Fund (Fit for 55 package), greenhouse gas emission trading system,EU ETS Directive (Fit for 55 package), MRV Regulation (Fit for 55 package), Regulation establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism, CBAM (Fit for 55 package), Directive on the exchange of information between the law enforcement authorities of Member States and repealing Council Framework Decision 2006/960/JHA, Information exchange between law enforcement authorities, Directive amending Directive 2003/25/EC as regards the inclusion of improved stability requirements and the alignment of that Directive with the stability requirements defined by the International Maritime Organisation, Ro-Ro passenger ships, Decision the European Parliament and the Council on a European Year of Skills.

Lex Signing ceremony: signature of Eleven COD LEX texts by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and by Jessika ROSWALL, Minister for EU Affairs, on behalf of the Swedish Presidency of the Council.

Vladimír BILČÍK (EPP, SK) and Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL (Greens/EFA, DE) hold a press conference on the 2022 Commission Reports on Kosovo and Serbia in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Vladimír BILČÍK (EPP, SK) and Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL (Greens/EFA, DE) on the 2022 Commission Reports on Kosovo and Serbia

Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), co-rapporteur, Jeroen LENAERS (EPP, NL), co-rapporteur hold a press conference on Commission's discharge for the financial year 2021 in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Press conference by Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP,DE), co-rapporteur, Jeroen LENAERS (EPP, NL), co-rapporteur, on Commission's discharge for the financial year 2021, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)

MEPs vote on the following topics: 2022 Commission Report on Serbia - Vladimír BILČÍK (EPP,SK); 2022 Commission Report on Kosovo - Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL (Greens/EFA, DE); Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Johan VAN OVERTVELDT (ECR,BE); Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe - José Manuel FERNANDES (EPP, PT) and Valérie HAYER (Renew, FR); Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – EU accession: institutions and public administration of the Union - Łukasz KOHUT (S&D, PL) and Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE); Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - EU accession: judicial cooperation in criminal matters, asylum and non-refoulement - Łukasz KOHUT (S&D, PL) and Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE).

Voting session, including the EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women

Six years after the EU signed the Convention - the first legally binding international instrument for preventing and combating violence against women and girls - and despite Parliament’s multiple calls to this end, it has still not ratified it because of the refusal of a few member states. However, the EU Court of Justice’s opinion of 6 October 2021 confirmed that the European Union can ratify the Istanbul Convention even without having the agreement of all member states. MEPs debate the matter and vote. Extracts from the debate, the vote and statement by Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE), Rapporteur.

EU accession to the Istanbul Convention on violence against women: extracts from the debate (09/05), extracts from the vote and statement by Arba KOKALARI (EPP, SE), Rapporteur

Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal, addresses the Plenary at a formal sitting. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Formal Sitting - Address by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal: address by Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal

Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal, addresses the Plenary at a formal sitting. Opening statement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Formal Sitting - Address by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal: opening statement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA , President of Portugal, addresses the plenary at a formal sitting. Presidents METSOLA and Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA also have a bilateral meeting before his address. Born in Lisbon in 1948, Marcelo Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA was elected President of the Republic in January 2016 and re-elected five years later in the first round with 60.67% of the votes. He was a tenured professor at Lisbon University’s Faculty of Law and a political commentator on TSF radio, as well as for TV stations RTP and TVI. At the beginning of his career, he was a journalist for the weekly newspapers “Semanário” and “Expresso”, which he helped set up. Extracts from the meeting with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and extracts from the formal sitting.

Visit of Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA , President of Portugal to the EP: meeting with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and extract from the formal sitting

Roberta METSOLA, EP President holds a press point with Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg. The transcription is the result of an automatic process. Please, check against delivery.

Press point by Roberta METSOLA, EP President and by Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal

MEPs debate the role of farmers in the green transition and how to ensure food security in Europe, especially in the light of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. First part of the debate.

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