European Parliament

President Sassoli opened the plenary session in Brussels.

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Parliament commemorated the fall of the Berlin Wall during a ceremony in Brussels on 13 November.

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EP President David Sassoli and the President of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble will address plenary at 15:00 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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On Thursday, 14 November, the three new Commissioners-designate Olivér Várhelyi, Adina-Ioana Vălean and Thierry Breton will face three-hour hearings in the EP.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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The Brexit Steering Group met on Tuesday 12 November with several committees to look at the part of the Withdrawal Agreement on citizens' rights.

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Commissioners-designate Olivér Várhelyi (Hungary), Adina-Ioana Vălean (Romania) and Thierry Breton (France) face hearings in Parliament on Thursday 14 November.

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Parliament will hold an award ceremony on 27 November for the LUX Film Prize laureate. The ceremony will take place in the European Parliament’s hemicycle in Strasbourg.
Committee on Culture and Education

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Climate change and food security, migration, sustainable growth and the post-Cotonou ACP-EU agreement are set to be the focus of the 38th session of the assembly.
Committee on Development

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Neighbourhood and Enlargement

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Young people can again register for free rail tickets until 28 November, thanks to the Discover EU initiative, supported by the European Parliament.

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Transport

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The Constitutional Affairs Committee will debate the state of play on Brexit with EP Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt on Tuesday at around 15.00.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs

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Parliament will hold an award ceremony on 26 November for last year’s Sakharov Prize laureate Oleg Sentsov, recently released from a Russian prison.
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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Internal market

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MEPs will hold hearings with three candidate commissioners, commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and mark 30 years of the Convention of the Rights of the Child this week.

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The Conference of Presidents (EP President and leaders of political groups) on Friday decided that the hearings of the three new Commissioners-designate take place on 14 November.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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Commissioners-designate hearings, plenary and committee meetings, Brussels

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UN climate scientists presented MEPs with new evidence on how climate change is affecting food production and oceans.

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The EU should commit to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 at the UN Conference and step up its emissions’ reduction ambition for 2030, said the Environment Committee on Wednesday.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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400 retail workers from Wallonia dismissed by the supermarket chain Carrefour should receive EU aid worth €1,632,028 to help find new jobs, the EP’s budget committee has decided.
Committee on Budgets

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