European Parliament (News)

President Metsola presented the Sakharov Prize 2024 to Venezuela’s Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado at a ceremony on Tuesday in Strasbourg.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Development
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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MEPs approved EU aid for 632 dismissed employees of machinery and paper factories in the Flemish province of Limburg.
Committee on Budgets

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Two new EU laws will offer quick EU funding for recovery measures following natural disasters that have occurred after 1 January 2024.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on Regional Development

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On Tuesday, Parliament backed Teresa Anjinho (Portugal) as the European Ombudsman for a five-year mandate, with the support of 344 MEPs in a secret plenary vote.
Committee on Petitions

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Companies will have one more year to comply with new EU rules to prevent deforestation that will ban the sale in the EU of products sourced from deforested land.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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EP President Roberta Metsola will hold a press conference with the Sakharov Prize 2024 laureates on Tuesday 17 December at 11.35 CET in Strasbourg.

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Tuesday, 17 December

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President Metsola opened the 16-19 December plenary session in Strasbourg by praising Georgia’s protestors, and marking the cyclone in Mayotte with a minute’s silence for victims.

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Monday, 16 December

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Ministers are holding a series of meetings in parliamentary committees to present the priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Committee on Development
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Spokespersons for Parliament and for the political groups will hold a briefing on the 25 - 28 November plenary session on Friday at 11.00, in Parliament’s Anna Politkovskaya press room.

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At the 6th Trilateral Business Forum in Paris, EP President Metsola said that improving the productivity of the economy is the starting point for boosting Europe's competitiveness.

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632 employees of the machinery and paper enterprises Purmo and Sappi who lost their jobs should receive €700,000 in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets

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Parliament’s President and political group leaders adopted the following statement marking 1000 days of Russia's illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine

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MEPs achieved increases for the 2025 EU budget and secured funds for helping EU countries facing climate-related disasters.
Committee on Budgets

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On Tuesday, Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking 1000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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A Parliament delegation arrives in Baku today to participate in the COP29 climate change conference, which aims to define a new collective goal for financing climate action.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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MEPs demand more targeted EU sanctions against Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’, which provides a key financial lifeline for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Parliament adopted its demands for the UN Climate Change Conference COP29, which aims to define a new collective goal for financing climate action.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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EU deforestation obligations will be postponed one year so that companies can comply with the law that ensures products sold in the EU are not sourced from deforested land.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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