Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (AFET) - Europäisches Parlament

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The EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) was formally launched during the EU-US Summit in June 2021 to intensify transatlantic cooperation, expand bilateral trade and investment, and reinforce the parties' technological and industrial leadership. Another aim is to ensure that trade and technology serve society and economy while preserving shared values. The TTC has held two high-level political meetings, in September 2021 in Pittsburgh and in May 2022 in Paris-Saclay. These meetings steer cooperation within the TTC and guide its 10 working groups whose remit includes technology standards, secure supply chains, tech regulation, global trade challenges, climate and green technologies as well as investment screening and export controls. Since its launch, the TTC has created a community of experts and policy-makers from both sides of the Atlantic who now regularly work together. Joint work in areas such as standards, integrity of information, supply chains, green public procurement and addressing non-market practices has yielded the TTC's first successful steps. Moreover, Russia's war on Ukraine is thought to have strengthened both the transatlantic relationship as a whole and the TTC, which has played a key role in ensuring swift and coordinated roll-out of export controls. After the war broke out, the TTC started supporting coordinated economic action to counter Russia's autocratic attempts to also undermine the security of other nations. Yet, while the TTC has done well in areas related to war, some underline that it must deliver tangible results across all the work strands to increase its importance and impact. So far, the TTC has focused mostly on information-sharing, joint mapping, risk identification and exploring options for closer cooperation in the future. Its success may well depend on the degree of alignment the parties can achieve across the policy areas and on whether they can move from joint identification of issues to elaborating common responses and solutions to them. The European Parliament supports the establishment and work of the TTC, while calling for a more democratic scrutiny over it. The next TTC meeting will take place before the end of 2022 in the United States.
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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 2 - Entwurf eines Berichts Abschluss – im Namen der Europäischen Union – und vorläufige Anwendung eines Protokolls zum Europa-Mittelmeer-Interimsassoziationsabkommen über Handel und Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Europäischen Gemeinschaft einerseits und der Palästinensischen Befreiungsorganisation (PLO) zugunsten der Palästinensischen Behörde für das Westjordanland und den Gaza-Streifen andererseits betreffend ein Rahmenabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union und der Palästinensischen Behörde für das Westjordanland und den Gaza-Streifen über die allgemeinen Grundsätze für die Teilnahme der Palästinensischen Behörde an Programmen der Union
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Manu Pineda

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 11 - 68 - Entwurf eines Berichts Festlegung von Vorschriften für die Ausübung der Rechte der Union bei der Durchführung und Durchsetzung des Abkommens über den Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs Großbritannien und Nordirland aus der Europäischen Union und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft und des Abkommens über Handel und Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Europäischen Union und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft einerseits und dem Vereinigten Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland andererseits
Ausschuss für konstitutionelle Fragen
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Ausschuss für internationalen Handel
Danuta Maria Hübner, Andreas Schieder, Seán Kelly

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The ING2 meeting on Thursday 29 September from 9.00 to 12.30 will start with a hearing on "Russian disinformation and propaganda regarding Ukraine in the light of its war of aggression and its impact on democratic processes in the European Union".
Members will exchange views with experts, including 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov, about the tactics and techniques used by the Kremlin in spreading disinformation and propaganda around Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and what impact these narratives have on the EU's democratic processes.

The invited experts are:

• Dmitry Muratov, The Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021, Editor-in-chief, Novaya Gazeta,
• Olga Rudenko, Editor-in-chief, Kyiv Independent,
• Michael Sheldon, Researcher, Bellingcat,
• Ross Burley, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Centre for Information Resilience.

The meeting will be held in association with the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (D-RU).
Draft agenda of the meeting
Programme of the hearing
Newsletter
e-Meeting documents
Live Streaming
Newsletter
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REPORT on access to water as a human right – the external dimension
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Miguel Urbán Crespo

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Each year, the Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2021, the prize was awarded to Alexei Navalny, Russian activist and political prisoner.
The nominees for this year's edition will be presented by the political groups in a joint meeting of the Committees on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Development (DEVE) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) in Brussels on 26 September, 15.00-16.30.
AFET and DEVE Committees will vote on a shortlist of three finalists on 13 October and the Conference of Presidents will take a decision on the final laureate on 20 October.
Webstreaming
Sakharov website
2022 Sakharov Prize nominees
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This document is a compilation of briefings that track the commitments made by the Vice-Presidents and Commissioners to the European Parliament – in their written answers to Parliament’s questions, at their hearings, and, in some cases, in subsequent appearances before Parliament’s committees. The document provides an overview of the state-of-play at the mid-term of the von der Leyen Commission. Since many of these commitments were made, major international crises have shifted some political priorities. The Vice-Presidents’ and Commissioners’ progress on their commitments should be considered in this context.
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The next AFET meetings are scheduled to take place on:

• Monday, 26 September - Joint AFET/DEVE/DROI meeting - Sakharov Prize 2022 - 15.00 - 16.30 - Room: József Antall (2Q2)
• Monday, 26 September - AFET Meeting - 16.30 - 18.30 - Room: József Antall (2Q2)

The meeting will be web-streamed.

AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2022
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AMENDMENTS 1 - 220 - Draft report Annual implementing report on the EU association agreement with Georgia
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sven Mikser

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This briefing follows up the commitments made by the High Representative / Vice President since 2019.
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This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.
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A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Khartoum in Sudan from 20 to 22 September. The main purpose of the mission will be to follow-up on the EU-African Union Summit held in February 2022, the Recommendation on the EU’s strategic relationship and partnership with the Horn of Africa (adopted in AFET in July) and to engage further with the African Union.
Members will hold meetings with the representatives of the Government of Ethiopia, authorities and civil society to discuss the situation of the armed conflict in the country and matters related to global and regional security. In Sudan Members will seek to support the Sudanese people in their struggle for democracy and make pressure on the regime to return to the transition process towards democracy. Members of the Committee on Development and Women's Rights and Gender Equality will join for parts of the programme.
Location : Ethiopia & Sudan
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A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Khartoum in Sudan from 20 to 22 September. The main purpose of the mission will be to follow-up on the EU-African Union Summit held in February 2022, the Recommendation on the EU’s strategic relationship and partnership with the Horn of Africa (adopted in AFET in July) and to engage further with the African Union.
Members will hold meetings with the representatives of the Government of Ethiopia, authorities and civil society to discuss the situation of the armed conflict in the country and matters related to global and regional security. In Sudan Members will seek to support the Sudanese people in their struggle for democracy and make pressure on the regime to return to the transition process towards democracy. Members of the Committee on Development and Women's Rights and Gender Equality will join for parts of the programme.
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OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Michael Gahler

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 – 300 - Entwurf eines Berichts Empfehlung an den Rat, die Kommission und den Vizepräsidenten der Kommission/Hohen Vertreter der Union für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik zur Lage in Libyen
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Giuliano Pisapia

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