Using railways, trains and carriages as a metaphor, the Legislative Train Schedule website enables users, namely MEPs, Parliament staff and the wider public, to follow the progress of legislative files moving through the European Parliament.

What is the Legislative Train?

At a glance: the political groups are preparing for the next plenary session, which will take place in Brussels on 10 and 11 April; proposed mandatory training for MEPs to prevent conflict and harassment in the European Parliament; and just 60 days to go until the European elections.

News in Brief – 05/04/2024 - English

The EU is committed to continuous improvement in learning opportunities, and addressing educational challenges. In this frame, the European Education Area (EEA) initiative aims to create a more interconnected education system. The EEA's primary goals include enhancing cooperation and mobility in education and building inclusive systems. A significant aspect is the focus on learning mobility, aiming to overcome barriers for students and educators.

Advancing Education: Exploring EU Learning Mobility Initiatives

The proposed EU data act lays down harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data. The aim is to remove barriers before consumers and businesses' access to data in a context in which the volume of data generated by humans and machines is increasing exponentially and becoming a critical factor for innovation by businesses (e.g. algorithm training) and by public authorities (e.g. shaping of smart cities).

EPRS policy podcast - The Data act

The 2008 crisis continues to have an impact. It is one of the reasons why many young people are likely to experience difficulties in finding a job and becoming independent. Here are three things that Europe does to help them.

This is what Europe does for young people not in education, employment or training

Children’s early years matter a great deal for their well-being and personal development and later for their success in education and employment. EU countries have agreed to provide early-childhood education and care services for pre-school children. The EU helps countries to improve their services through the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund. It also has other initiatives in place to support training, cooperation and research. Here’s how.

This is what Europe does for pre-school children

If you have a disability or reduced mobility, you’ll be happy to hear that the EU ensures you have the same right to free movement and non-discrimination as all other citizens. Here’s how this works for rail travel.

This is what Europe does for train passengers with disabilities or reduced mobility

Are you a recent graduate? Or would you like to gain some hands-on experience in another country? Here are some of the possibilities the EU offers and supports.

This is what Europe does for trainees

The setting-up of a European Solidarity Corps has been agreed by European Parliament and European Council negotiators in June 2018.

It aims to be the EU's main entry-point for young people wanting to volunteer or work on projects to benefit communities and people across Europe.

The purpose is to give young people the opportunity to acquire valuable competences for personal, social, civic and professional development, including learning and training, while helping other people.

Projects include education, health, environment protection, work with children and elderly people as well as with migrants and asylum seekers with priority given to charitable work.

European Solidarity Corps - 8th parliamentary term

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Eighty million people in the EU (one-sixth of the population) have disabilities ranging from mild to severe.&nbsp;These people, who are often prevented by their disability from taking part in society and the economy, have a rate of poverty 70 % higher than the EU average.
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<div style="padding-top: 10px;">The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (EDS) constitutes a comprehensive multiannual framework for implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at EU level. The EU adopted the EDS in November 2010, shortly before the UN CRPD entered into force for the EU. The strategy’s declared aim was to empower people with disabilities, so that they can enjoy their full rights as EU citizens and participate in society on an equal basis to others, in a barrier-free Europe. The strategy is based on eight priority areas (“areas for action”): accessibility, participation, equality, employment, education and training (including access to quality education and lifelong learning), social protection, health and external action.</div>

European Disability Strategy 2010-2020

The Erasmus programme is an international student exchange programme that has been running in Europe since 1987, supporting education, training and sport.

The current Erasmus+ 2014 to 2020 spending programme has a budget of €4.7 billion (in current prices).The proposed budget for the 2021 to 2027 programming period has been increased to EUR 30 billion (in current prices) (article 14 of the proposal). The focus of the new programme is on being inclusive and on doing more to reach young people with limited opportunities.

Erasmus - 8th parliamentary term

EU rules ensure a minimum level of protection for passengers, irrespective of the mode of transport: flight, train, bus, coach or ship.

EU rail passenger rights rules have been in force since 2009. The EP’s Committee on Transport and Tourism responsible for the file, adopted its rapport on 9 October 2018. The report is due to be discussed in plenary during November 2018. Update of existing rules which aim to improve provision of information about passenger rights, clear deadlines and procedures for complaint handling, uniform application of the rules: long distance domestic and cross-border urban, suburban and regional services can no longer be exempted from the application of passenger rights rules.

In 2014, MEPs proposed new rules to improve air passenger rights. The new regulation is currently being discussed in the Council.

Passenger rights - 8th parliamentary term

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with the Schuman trainees

Training Programme for Young European Journalists

Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Composition of Parliament

Verification of credentials

Request for waiver of immunity

Composition of committees and delegations

Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading (Rule 71)

Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79)

Corrigendum (Rule 241)

Proposals for Union acts

Announcement

Order of business

Resumption of the sitting

Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)

Protection of journalists and human rights defenders from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (debate)

European Citizens' Initiative Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics - Commit to a Europe without animal testing' (debate)

Management, conservation and control measures in the area covered under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA) (debate)

Protection of workers from extreme heat and other extreme weather phenomena resulting from the climate crisis (debate)

Implementation of passerelle' clauses in the EU Treaties (short presentation)

Banking Union - annual report 2022 (short presentation)

Fostering and adapting vocational training as a tool for employees' success and a building block for the EU economy in the new industry 4.0 (short presentation)

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Agenda of the next sitting

Approval of the minutes of the sitting

Closure of the sitting

Plenary session

Traineeship Welcome Conference

Welcome Days for Schuman trainees

Welcome Days for Schuman Trainees – March 2022

Training Programme for Young European Journalists - Press point: Discussion with MEPs about the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)

EP Plenary session - Union of Skills: striving for more and better opportunities to study, train or work in the EU and to bring our talents back home

EP Plenary session - Boosting vocational education and training in times of labour market transitions

Trainee Alumni Network 2024

EP President Roberta METSOLA visits the Aerospace District in Torino (Italy). The Aerospace District is a non-profit association that brings together the scientific and technological excellence of the aerospace sector in Piedmont region. It was established in 2019 with the aim of sharing and enhancing aerospace issues, through the strengthening of the supply chain, the creation of synergies and projects for the dissemination of innovation, professional training and research, the analysis of funding opportunities and the intensification of communication activities.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Italy - Visit to Aerospace District in Torino: extracts

MEPs vote during the plenary session on several reports/amendments: Inese Vaidere (INTA 15/05) - Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus / Veronika Vrecionová (AGRI A10-0043/2025) - Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seed/ Amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation as regards securities financing transactions under the net stable funding ratio/ Borys Budka (ITRE A10-0083/2025) - Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and repealing Council Regulation (Euratom) 2021/765/ Ondřej Knotek (CONT 14/05) - Partial renewal of Members of the Court of Auditors - HR nominee

Voting Session

Passenger Rights apply for delays and cancellations for air, rail, ship or bus passengers when travelling in the EU. This infoclip is illustrating passengers departing from airports and rail stations in Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, Slovenia).

Infoclip: Passenger rights

EP President Roberta Metsola gives a keynote address at Johns Hopkins University on "Europe and the United States in a New World," outlining her vision for the future of the transatlantic relationship amidst today’s geopolitically challenging times.

Keynote speech by Roberta METSOLA, EP President at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

EP President Roberta Metsola delivered a keynote speech at Johns Hopkins University titled "Europe and the United States in a New World,". The statement is followed by a Questions/Answers session with the students.

Q&A session with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

EP President, Roberta Metsola, delivers a keynote speech at the Johns Hopkins University on “Europe and the United States in a New World” where she set out her vision of how she sees the transatlantic relationship develop at these geopolitically turbulent times.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Washington D.C. (United States of America): extracts from the keynote speech & Q&A with Students, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Corrie Hermann, daughter of the Hungarian-born cellist Pál Hermann, and dr Kate Kennedy, biographer, make a statement on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the European Parliament. Born on 27 March 1902 in Budapest, Pál Hermann was a student of Béla Bartók and considered one of the best cellists of his era. He moved to Berlin in the 1920s and gave concerts all over Europe on his Gagliano cello. In 1933, Hermann fled to Belgium and France. Upon his arrest by the Nazis in Toulouse in 1944, he managed to throw a note from the train, asking for the Gagliano to be saved from the Nazis. The note was found and a friend of Hermann's cycled 100 kilometres to rescue the instrument. Hermann was murdered by the Nazis in a camp in the Baltics in 1944. His cello was rediscovered 80 years later being played by a competitor in the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: statement by Corrie Hermann, daughter of the cellist Pál Hermann and by Kate Kennedy, biographer

This news item shows various elements, including cutaways of antennas and security cameras, illustration of a cybercriminal in action and a server under cyber attack. It also features the Ubitech co-founders highlighting key innovations like a quantum computer model, an AI server, and the MAI.gov government platform for providing online services to citizens. The video further includes illustrations of devices such as smartwatches, smart lights, and security cameras, as well as shots of the European Union agency ENISA's headquarters, dedicated to strengthening cybersecurity, and scenes from the European Cyber Security Challenge competition in Turin.

Infoclip: EU Cybersecurity

This infoclip displays a team listening to a practical and theorical training in a warehouse in Ireland. In a classroom filled with computers, students are learning mettallurgic moves thanks to virtual reality. They also learn robotics, and follow technical explanations by a professor displaying his lesson on screens. At the end of the infoclip, the cameras follows an auditorium lecture in the University of Luxembourg.

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