EP Plenary session - Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025

EP Plenary session - Further deterioration of the political situation in Georgia

LUX European Audience Film Award 2025 - Screening of nominated film Intercepted

Strasbourg's Plenary session through the lens . Week 4.

CCC meeting

European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - Interview

Quaestors family  photo

Press briefing The Left

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - Parliament's call for the Right to Disconnect – 3 years after

EP Plenary session - European Health Data Space

EP Plenary session - Voting session

Press conference on the European Elections 2024 report

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - Event with  EPLO Rome

Press conference of the the laureates of the 2023 Sakharov Prize

EP Plenary session - Award of the Sakharov Prize 2023

Press briefing Renew Europe

Press briefing S&D group

EP Plenary session - Oral question - EU-Taiwan trade and investment relations

Press briefing EPP

Media Seminar - European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - Meeting with finalists

EMPL - FEMM Trilogue on Equality

MEPs discuss the wellbeing and the protection of children in Europe, marking the International Day on the Rights of the Child. The Parliament also debate how to strengthen the Child Guarantee, two years after its adoption in 2021. MEPs discuss a report to reduce inequalities and increase social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families. In the text, Parliament calls for better integrated social, educational and employment services to help break the vicious circle of poverty and to protect children and their families at risk of poverty, in particular in times of crisis.

International Day on the Rights of the Child: MEPs debate

MEPs discuss the wellbeing and the protection of children in Europe, marking the International Day on the Rights of the Child. The Parliament also debate how to strengthen the Child Guarantee, two years after its adoption in 2021. MEPs discuss a report to reduce inequalities and increase social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families. In the text, Parliament calls for better integrated social, educational and employment services to help break the vicious circle of poverty and to protect children and their families at risk of poverty, in particular in times of crisis. Opening statement by Sandra PEREIRA (The Left, PT), Rapporteur and Dubravka ŠUICA, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Democracy and Demography and Ewa KOPACZ (EPP, PL), on behalf of the FEMM Committee. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Joint debate International Day on the Rights of the Child: opening statement by Sandra PEREIRA, Rapporteur and Dubravka ŠUICA, VP of the EC in charge of Democracy and Demography and by Ewa KOPACZ, on behalf of the FEMM Committee

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, gives her tribute to to Karel SCHWARZENBERG, former Czech Minister for Foreign Affairs. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Tribute by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Karel SCHWARZENBERG, former Czech Minister for Foreign Affairs

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, opens the plenary session in Strasbourg with introductory remarks on the International Day on the Rights of the Child (20 Nov.). This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Introductory remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the International Day on the Rights of the Child (20 Nov.)

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, gives an opening statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 Nov). This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Introductory remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 Nov)

Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, gives her introductory remark on the attack against Vidal Quadras. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Introductory remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, on the attack against Vidal Quadras

Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE) Sven SIMON (EPP, DE) Gabriele BISCHOFF (S&D, DE) Daniel FREUND (Gscreens/EFA, DE) Helmut SCHOLZ (Left, DE) co-rapporteurs hold a press conference after the vote on Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties. The text includes a more bicameral system, as well as granting Parliament the full right to initiate legislation and the right to co-legislate on the EU’s long-term budget. It also calls for an increase in the number of decisions taken by qualified majority in the Council. Other proposals touch upon the election of the Commission President, citizens’ participation including EU-wide referendums, and more EU powers in areas such as environment and biodiversity, security and defense, civil protection, public health, energy, and cross-border-infrastructure.

Press conference by Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE) Sven SIMON (EPP, DE) Gabriele BISCHOFF (S&D, DE) Daniel FREUND (Gscreens/EFA, DE) Helmut SCHOLZ (Left, DE) co-rapporteurs on Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties.

Parliament adopts its negotiating position on new rules promoting the right to repair and more sustainable consumption of consumer goods. MEPs debate on draft legislation to make it easier for consumers to repair defective goods even after the expiration of the guarantee. The proposal complements other ongoing EU initiatives that pursue the European Green Deal objective of sustainable consumption and the circular economy.

Common rules promoting the repair of goods: extracts from the debate (Monday 20/11), votes and statements by René REPASI (S&D, DE), Rapporteur

Exterior and interior views of the European Parliament during the plenary session in Strasbourg (including Simone VEIL buildings - previously Osmose)

EP Plenary session (20-23/11): editing shots (interior shots of the EP)

European Parliament buildings: Drone views – Strasbourg in automn and summer

European Parliament Stockshots 9th Parliamentary Term: Drone views – Strasbourg

On 14 February 1995, President of the European Parliament Klaus Hänsch delivered a speech to the plenary on the 50thanniversary of the bombing of Dresden during World War II.

EN Version : President Klaus Hänsch's speech on the anniversary of the Dresden bombings

"Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran" is awarded as the 2023 Sakharov Prize laureate. "The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded each year by the European Parliament. It was set up in 1988 to honour individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. The European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (President Metsola and political groups’ leaders) select the winning laureate. This news item shows footage from the roundtable at the COP and from the announcement of the laureate by Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament.

Sakharov Prize 2023 laureate: roundtable at the COP and extracts from the announcement of "Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran" as the laureate, by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Over 1,5 million citizens supported the European Citizens' Initiative, 'Fur Free Europe’, which calls for an EU ban on the keeping and killing of animals for the sole or main purpose of fur production. The organisers also seek to prohibit selling fur from these animals, as well as products containing this fur across the Union. This news item shows footage of the MEPs debate on this initiative against the rearing and killing of animals exclusively for fur production in the EU.

European Citizens' Initiative "Fur Free Europe": extracts from the debate

MEPs vote on the following items: Rule of Law in Malta: 6 years after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the need to protect journalists; the European protein strategy - Wiesner; the Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future - Carvalhais

Voting session (part 2)

Roberta METSOLA, EP President, announces in front of the hemicycle in Strasbourg the Sakharov Prize 2023 laureate: "Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran". The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded each year by the European Parliament. It was set up in 1988 to honour individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is named in honour of Soviet physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Announcement of the Sakharov Prize 2023 laureate "Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran" by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

MEPs debate the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur Free Europe” to ban the rearing and killing of animals exclusively for fur production in the EU. The initiative calls for an EU ban on the keeping and killing of animals for the sole or main purpose of fur production. The organisers also seek to prohibit selling fur from these animals, as well as products containing this fur across the Union. The initiative “Fur Free Europe” collected 1,502,319 valid signatures from all EU countries. Closing statement by Iliana IVANOVA, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.

European Citizens' Initiative "Fur Free Europe": closing statement by Iliana IVANOVA, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

MEPs debate the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur Free Europe” to ban the rearing and killing of animals exclusively for fur production in the EU. The initiative calls for an EU ban on the keeping and killing of animals for the sole or main purpose of fur production. The organisers also seek to prohibit selling fur from these animals, as well as products containing this fur across the Union. The initiative “Fur Free Europe” collected 1,502,319 valid signatures from all EU countries.

European Citizens' Initiative "Fur Free Europe": MEPs debate

MEPs debate the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur Free Europe” to ban the rearing and killing of animals exclusively for fur production in the EU. The initiative calls for an EU ban on the keeping and killing of animals for the sole or main purpose of fur production. The organisers also seek to prohibit selling fur from these animals, as well as products containing this fur across the Union. The initiative “Fur Free Europe” collected 1,502,319 valid signatures from all EU countries. Opening statement by Michal WIEZIK (Renew, SK), author and Iliana IVANOVA, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

European Citizens' Initiative "Fur Free Europe": opening statement by Michal WIEZIK (Renew, SK), author and Iliana IVANOVA, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

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