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David SASSOLI, EP President on a phone call with Francesco UBERTINI, Dean of the Bologna University, on the occasion of the birthday of Patrick ZAKI, detained in Egypt since February 2020: extracts from the beginning of the phone call. Patrick George Zaki is a student of the University of Bologna and an activist. He is detained in jail, in Egypt, since the 7th of February 2020. Zaki was charged from the public prosecutor’s office and prosecutors ordered a detention for 15 days pending investigations into allegations of "spreading fake news and calling for unauthorised protests". His detention was extendend every 45 days during this year. June, 16th is the day of his 30th birthday.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Matteo MECACCI, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in the European Parliament in Brussels: welcome and roundtable

Guy VERHOFSTADT (Renew, BE), Co-Chair of the Executive Board and coordinator of the EP delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe, gives a press conference in the European Parliament in Brussels.

David SASSOLI, EP President chairs the Focus group moderators of rethinking parliamentary democracy in the European Parliament in Brussels. The aim of this group is to reflect on the EP's future - opening a broad debate about the best way forward after the Covid-19 pandemic.

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Anca DRAGU, President of the Romanian Senate: welcome and roundtable

David SASSOLI, EP President participates in the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranea in the European Parliament in Brussels: arrivals and roundtable.

Bernd LANGE (S&D, DE), Chair of the EP Committee on International Trade, reacted on the agreement on the Airbus-Boeing dispute. According to him, in these 5 years' ceasefire, there won't be any tariffs on aircrafts, but also on wine and other products. Moreover, there is some perspective for export of European products to the US market and vice versa. So at the moment, "the agreement is a very good sign for transatlantic cooperation and farmers across the Atlantic", as stated the Agriculture Committee Chair Norbert LINS (EPP, DE) on Tuesday 15th June 2021. However, Mr LANGE stressed that we should remain careful, because this is not the end of the story.