Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) - European Parliament

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The Lisbon Treaty increased the European Parliament’s powers over EU trade policy. Ten years after its entry into force it is timely to take stock of how the EP has made use of this leverage in shaping the EU’s trade negotiations. Such an exercise benefits from a comparison with other well-established parliamentary democracies, particularly the key partners with whom the EU has recently negotiated or has started to negotiate a comprehensive trade agreement. This study compares parliamentary scrutiny of trade policy in the EU with the United States, Canada and Australia. It concludes that the European Parliament has become powerful and active in trade policy, on a comparable level to the US Congress. Its powers exceed those of other Western democracies, such as Australia and Canada. From the latter the European Parliament may conclude that it is important to codify some of its informal oversight practices, before they may get lost over time again. This may also help to encourage its trading partners to increase their parliamentary involvement during negotiations with the EU. As regards the implementation of trade agreements however, the EU has very few competences in comparison to all other three countries analysed.
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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA III)
Committee on Foreign Affairs
José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Knut Fleckenstein

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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Development
Charles Goerens, Frank Engel, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Cristian Dan Preda

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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the Institutional Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Swiss Confederation
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Doru-Claudian Frunzulică

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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the new comprehensive agreement between the EU and Uzbekistan
Committee on Foreign Affairs
David McAllister

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RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union and its Member States, of a Protocol to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Cristian Dan Preda

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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the Proposal of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, with the support of the Commission, to the Council for a Council Decision establishing a European Peace Facility
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Hilde Vautmans

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The next AFET meeting is scheduled to take place on:

Monday, 18 March, from 15:00-17:00, jointly with LIBE, PHS 3C50
Monday, 1 April, from 15:00-18:30 and Tuesday 2 April, 09:00-12:30, JAN 2Q2

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REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the scope and mandate for EU Special Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Hilde Vautmans

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ERRATUM on the state of EU-Russia political relations (2018/2158(INI))
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sandra Kalniete

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The Scope and Mandate for EU Special Representatives
Association between European Communities and their Member States and the State of Israel
Establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument - (2018/0243 (COD)) - (Committee on Foreign Affairs / Committee on Development (Joint committee procedure – Rule 55 of the Rules of Procedure)
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