EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Anti Money Laundering

EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Economic governance

EP Plenary session - Guidelines for the 2025 Budget - Section III

EP Plenary session - Joint Debate - European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024

EP Plenary session - The extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange and implications on freedom of the press

EP Plenary session - Joint debate on MFF revision

EP Plenary session - Need to overcome the Council deadlock on the platform workers directive - Council and Commission statements

BUDG Committee meeting.BUDG Committee meeting

EP Plenary session - European Central Bank - annual report 2022

EP Plenary session - European Cybersecurity Competence Centre

Press conference - The next MFF and Own Resources - Press Conference by Johan VAN OVERTVELDT, Chair of the Committee on Budgets,

EP Press Roundtable on the MFF : ' The EU Long-Term budget 2021 - 2027 ' - Roundtable with EP's negotiation team

MEPs are set to approve long-term funding for Ukraine, the “Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform” (STEP), and associated major changes to the multi-year EU budget. The revision of the EU’s long-term budget – the multiannual financial framework (MFF) – includes the €50 billion Ukraine Facility and the “Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform” (STEP) which aims to support EU competitiveness and resilience in strategic sectors. It also bolsters the EU’s budget to deal with migration and external challenges as well as the EU's crisis preparedness and budgetary flexibility. Furthermore, in line with Parliament’s demands, the revision introduces a mechanism to tackle escalating costs linked to the repayment of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan amid rising interest rates. On Tuesday, Parliament will debate and vote on the corresponding texts recently agreed with the EU member states: MFF revision

Joint debate - MFF revision: MEPs debate

MEPs discuss the outcome of the Special European Council of 1 February, with Charles Michel, President of the European Council and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. The special summit was about finding an agreement on the mid-term review of the EU’s long-term 2021-2027 budget (multiannual financial framework, MFF) and a €50 billion financial aid package for Ukraine. First part of the debate.

Conclusions of the special European Council meeting of 1 February 2024: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs discuss the December European Council, the 1 February Special summit and assess the situation in Hungary with the European Council's and Commission's presidents. During their meeting on 14 - 15 December, heads of state or government agreed, among other things, to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova and grant candidate status to Georgia. First part of MEPs debate.

Joint debate on European Council meetings: MEP debate (part 1)

MEPs present their demands and expectations one day ahead of the EU summit on 14-15 December. At their meeting in Brussels, heads of state or government focus on the latest developments in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and continued EU support for the country and its people, on the situation in the Middle East and on EU enlargement policy, including the stabilisation and association process. They also discuss the EU’s long-term 2021-2027 budget with a view to reaching an agreement, security and defence issues as well as external relations.

Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on a deal that secures the 2024 EU budget aimed at addressing global challenges and supporting young people and research. The Parliament obtained better support, totalling almost €670 million in funding, for its priorities on top of what the Commission had initially proposed in its draft budget for 2024. Negotiations between Parliament, Council and the Commission ended with an agreement on Saturday 11 November. The preliminary figures for 2024 are €189.4 billion in commitment appropriations and €142.6 billion in payment appropriations. This news includes extracts from the debate (21/11), extracts from the vote and signature ceremony.

2024 budgetary procedure: extracts from the debate (21/11), extracts from the vote and signature ceremony

Following the Commission’s proposal for a mid-term revision on the EU’s long-term budget (multiannual financial framework, MFF) the full house debate on the proposal of the Committee on Budgets to demand an extra €10 billion for 2024-2027. MEPs want to boost areas linked to external challenges, especially the Russian war against Ukraine and growing migration issues, the EU’s strategic autonomy, and enhance the EU’s crisis-response capabilities. First part of the debate.

Mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs vote on the following topics: Draft European Council decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament - Lorant Vincze, Nomination of a member of the Court of Auditors - SK nominee - Petri Sarvamaa; EU/USA agreement for scientific and technological cooperation: extension - Cristian-Silviu Buşoi; Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States - Dragoş Pîslaru; Taxation: administrative cooperation - Rasmus Andresen; Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure with a view to strengthening integrity, independence and accountability - Gabriele Bischoff; Single Market emergency instrument - Andreas Schwab; Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe - Javi LÓPEZ; Sustainable aviation fuels (ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative) - José Ramón BAUZÁ DÍAZ; 2022 Report on Türkiye - Sánchez Amor; and Relations with Belarus - Auštrevičius.

Voting session, including a draft European Council decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament, and Ambient air quality Directive

Every September, the President of the European Commission comes to the European Parliament to discuss with MEPs what the Commission has done over the past year, what it intends to do in the coming year and its vision for the future in the State of the European Union debate. Nine months before the next European Parliament elections on 6 - 9 June, President Ursula von der Leyen outlines her Commission’s priorities from now until the end of its mandate. She focuses on a stronger and more resilient European Union, on the EU’s continued support for Ukraine in its war against Russia’s aggression, on energy security and EU energy independence, the EU’s twin green and digital transitions, and on protecting core EU values. MEPs debate (part 2)

ANDRESEN, Rasmus (Greens/EFA, DE)

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