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Austria has taken the initiative and began easing its lockdown measures for containing the coronavirus on Tuesday. Calls for an exit strategy from the restrictions are also growing louder in other countries. Journalists discuss when such steps can be taken and what dilemmas societies face.

A pre-session press briefing by Parliament’s Spokesperson on the plenary agenda of 16 - 17 April will take place in Anna Politkovskaya room and via Skype.

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A pre-session press briefing by Parliament’s Spokesperson on the plenary agenda of 16 - 17 April will take place in Anna Politkovskaya room and via Skype.

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There is no safer place than our home. The first thing we think about when we feel the need to escape our daily life is to simply relax in our house, our realm. There is no such place as our own, the one we have first imagined, then set up, refined and lived in.

The Council approved support for EU fishermen and aquaculture farmers during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel 13-19 April 2020

The Council has adopted by written procedure two proposals which amend the EU budget for 2020 in order to free up funds to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

The first draft programme of Germany's EU Presidency contains mainly empty wording. There are no concrete goals for the Green Deal, with new initiatives only in the case of hydrogen. The coronavirus pandemic is to blame. EURACTIV Germany reports.

The 165 000 current Erasmus+ exchange students and 5000 EU volunteers need reassurance that they will be reimbursed and retain their status, MEPs say.
Committee on Culture and Education

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The 165 000 current Erasmus+ exchange students and 5000 EU volunteers need reassurance that they will be reimbursed and retain their status, MEPs say.
Committee on Culture and Education

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The European Parliament and Council should work with the Commission to consider how best to implement a potential legal clampdown on fake news online, the EU's Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders has said.

Ways to help farmers in supplying food during the COVID-19 pandemic will be debated by the Agriculture Committee and Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on Wednesday from 15.00.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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Ways to help farmers in supplying food during the COVID-19 pandemic will be debated by the Agriculture Committee and Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski on Wednesday from 15.00.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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The European Parliament’s largest political groups back the issuing of 'recovery bonds' guaranteed by the EU budget to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis, according to document seen by EURACTIV.com.