Back in Strasbourg once again, Parliament adopted the Digital Covid Certificate to ease safe movement in the EU and the President announced the winner of the LUX Audience Award. MEPs called for better protection of the environment and animals and backed funding to help businesses recover from the impact of Brexit.

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Plenary highlights: Covid certificate, Brexit and LUX Audience Award

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It will facilitate EU travel by ensuring travellers

proof of vaccination, a negative PCR test

Parliament discussed the new 2030 biodiversity strategy

The aim is to reverse biodiversity loss due to climate change,

to the Romanian documentary 'Collective'.

MEPs and European citizens each had 50% of the vote.

MEPs said a €5 billion fund to help EU countries

face the consequences of Brexit should be disbursed quickly.

They want it to support small businesses and fisheries

as well as job creation and the reintegration of EU citizens

Following a petition demanding the phase out of cages

for farmed animals, Parliament called on the EU Commission

to come up with a proposal to ban the practice by 2027.