European Parliament (News)

Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia need to continue focusing on fundamental reforms, say MEPs in resolutions adopted on Thursday.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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MEPs approved three laws on implementing the EU’s Own Resources system, paving the way for its reform and the introduction of new sources of EU revenue.
Committee on Budgets

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Boosting recycling in the fisheries sector and substantially cutting the use of plastics are key to clean our seas, say MEPs.
Committee on Fisheries

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Europe and Africa must move away from a donor-recipient relationship, Parliament says, as MEPs vision for a deeper relationship between the two continents.
Committee on Development

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Parliament is prepared to take legal action should the Commission delay the application of the budget’s Rule of Law conditionality mechanism any further.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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To facilitate its adoption by the summer, MEPs decided to accelerate the approval of the Digital Green Certificate, allowing for safe and free movement during the pandemic.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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David Sassoli stressed the need to strengthen democracy in an address to EU leaders at the start of the European Council on 25 March.

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Parliament’s monitoring group has invited the prime minister, culture minister, chief prosecutor and ombudsman, as well as media and civil society, to a meeting on Friday.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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In this press kit, you will find a selection of the European Parliament’s press releases that show MEPs’ priorities in relation to topics on the summit agenda.

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Thursday, 25 March

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The work on the Conference on the Future of Europe has officially started with the constitutive meeting of the Executive Board held on 24 March.

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Most MEPs supported the Digital Green Certificate during today’s debate but warned that all efforts to recover will be void unless Europeans are vaccinated more quickly.

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President Sassoli spoke against Chinese sanctions, led a minute of silence in memory of victims of Soviet deportations and marked the 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution.

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Following his address to heads of state or government during the EU summit, President Sassoli will hold a press conference today at 14.30.

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Wednesday, 24 March

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The EU is working on new export rules for so-called dual-use goods to prevent them being misused in human rights violations.

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MEPs on the Economic and Monetary Affairs and Legal Affairs committees exchanged views with experts on lessons learned from the Wirecard collapse and shortcomings in supervision.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Committee on Legal Affairs

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Statement by leading MEPs following the decision by Chinese authorities to sanction the Subcommittee on Human Rights and other European entities and officials.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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On Tuesday, MEPs quizzed the European Commission and European Medicines Agency on latest developments concerning the authorisation and purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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Africa and the EU must establish a new partnership as equals, focusing on people's needs and adjusting to the needs of a post-Covid world.

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