David SASSOLI, EP President and the political group leaders have a remote meeting with Janez Janša, Prime Minister and the Slovenian government to discuss the programme of the Slovenian EU Council Presidency starting on 1 July 2021. Then, David Sassoli, from Parliament’s press conference room in Brussels and Janez Janša, from Brdo Congress Centre in Ljubljana, hold a joint press conference on the priorities of the incoming Slovenian Council Presidency. David SASSOLI, also meets with representatives of the Slovenian parliament.

Brussels

meeting

FITTO, Raffaele (ECR, IT)

LAMBERTS, Philippe (Greens/EFA, BE)

press conference

EP conference of presidents

SASSOLI, David Maria (S&D, IT, S&D, IT)

BONAFÈ, Simona (S&D, IT)

EU - Slovenia (T)

Ljubljana

ZANNI, Marco (ID, IT)

CIOLOŞ, Dacian (Renew, RO)

JANŠA, Janez (SI)

Slovenian Presidency of the EU (T)

AZMANI, Malik (Renew, NL)

Meeting with the Slovenian Presidency: extracts from the press conference between David SASSOLI, EP President and Janez JANSA, Slovenian Prime Minister: extracts from the video meeting

Title: Meeting with the Slovenian Presidency

Exterior shots of the Slovenian Parliament, Ljubljana

Roundtable Slovenian Presidency Ljubljana (2 shots)

Arrival of David SASSOLI, EP President (2 shots)

David SASSOLI, EP President opening the meeting

Janez JANSA, Slovenian Prime Minister: in Ljubljana

External shot of the Brdo Congress Centre

SOUNDBITE (Slovenian), Janez JANSA, Premier Ministre slov&#232;ne, We are delighted to see the light at the end of the tunnel of this pandemic, which is now going to get behind us after more than a year now. But the time ahead of us will be the time of the recovery. And we will also have to build a greater resilience for fighting future crises of a similar nature.

SOUNDBITE (Slovenian), Janez JANSA, Premier Ministre slov&#232;ne, During the Slovenian presidency we will also be working on the Conference of the Future of Europe. This is an important Conference because it fits into the post-pandemic phase in the relaunching of our economies, in the creation of greater resiliency.

SOUNDBITE (Slovenian), Janez JANSA, Premier Ministre slov&#232;ne, The rule of law is not something that is just random, It's not a selective law. We need to ensure that the same treatment applies to all member states.

SOUNDBITE (Slovenian), Janez JANSA, Premier Ministre slov&#232;ne, We've also mentioned the situation in Belarus during our meeting. Anyone who is a victim of this repressive regime in Belarus are worthy of our support and solidarity as well. And they deserve our help and measures adopted the last European Council. These measures will still evolve with a view to guaranteeing security, human rights and the respect for the freedom of expression for all of those who are still in the Belarus or Russian prisons.

Philippe LAMBERTS (Greens/EFA,BE) (2 shots)

Cutaways Members of the Slovenian Parliament (2 shots)

Arrival of David SASSOLI, EP President (5 shots)