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On 20&nbsp;March 2025, the European Council adopted conclusions on Ukraine, the Middle East, competitiveness, European defence and security, next multiannual financial framework and new own resources, migration, oceans, multilateralism and other items.

Following up on its conclusions of 6 March 2025, the European Council calls for an acceleration of work on all strands to decisively ramp up Europe’s defence readiness within the next five years.&nbsp;

The European Council also underlines the urgent need to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness.&nbsp;In that regard, the European Council welcomes&nbsp;the presentation of the Competitiveness Compass of 29 January 2025, the Clean Industrial Deal of 26 February 2025 and the Omnibus simplification agenda.

European Council, 20-21 March 2025

On 24 February 2022,&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;began a&nbsp;military invasion&nbsp;of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the conflict that had begun in 2014. Shortly before, on 21 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent.&nbsp;

Since then, the EU and its international allies have rallied firmly behind the Kyiv government. This support has resulted in unprecedented levels of financial aid, assistance, weapons deliveries to Ukraine, sweeping sanctions against Moscow, and the granting of EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.

On 1&nbsp;March&nbsp;the European Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session in Brussels to assess Russia’s military assault on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&nbsp;and the Speaker of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Ruslan Stefanchuk spoke live from Kiev.&nbsp;The European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was in Kyiv on 1 April&nbsp;to express the European Union´s support of&nbsp;the Ukrainian people and to condemn the Russian attack. On&nbsp;8 June&nbsp;Stefanchuk adressed Parliament in the Strasbourg hemicycle.

Following the atrocities carried out by Vladimir Putin’s regime against Ukrainian civilians, the European Parliament has&nbsp;recognised Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism in a resolution on November 2022.

On 9th February 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy&nbsp;addressed the European Parliament during an extraordinary plenary session in Brussels.

In March 2024, &nbsp;MEPs voted to to amend the Commission’s proposal to suspend import duties and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural exports to the EU for another year, from 6 June 2024 to 5 June 2025.&nbsp;

Following Russia's military invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, which escalated the ongoing conflict that started in 2014, the EU and its international allies has shown unwavering support for Ukraine, providing substantial financial aid, assistance, weapons, implementing severe sanctions against Russia, and granting EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.

Russian aggression against Ukraine

&nbsp;​​​At a critical time for Ukraine and European security, the EU is committed to becoming more responsible for its own defence and better equipped to act and deal autonomously with immediate and future challenges and threats, including Russia’s war and its repercussions on European security, which constitute an existential challenge for the EU. The common security and defence policy (CSDP) is an integral part of the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP). The CSDP is the main policy framework through which Member States can develop a European strategic culture of security and defence, address conflicts and crises together, protect the Union and its citizens, and strengthen international peace and security. As a result of the tense geopolitical context, the CSDP has been one of the fastest developing policies over the last 10 years.

European security and defence

In July 2024&nbsp; MEPs re-elected Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT) as President of the European Parliament until 2027, with 562 votes in the first round. Roberta Metsola won the election in the first round of voting, where she received an absolute majority of 562 votes cast out of 699 by secret paper ballot, among two candidates. She will continue to lead Parliament for the first two and a half years of the 10th legislative term.

Born in Malta in 1979, Roberta Metsola has been an MEP since 2013.&nbsp;She was elected First Vice-President in November 2020, and was Parliament’s acting President after President Sassoli passed away on 11 January 2022. On 18 January 2022,&nbsp;she was elected President&nbsp;for the second half of the 9th legislative term. She is the third female President of the European Parliament, after&nbsp;Simone Veil&nbsp;(1979-1982) and Nicole Fontaine (1999-2002).

Addressing the House after she was elected, President Metsola said: “Together, we must stand up for the politics of hope, for the dream that is Europe. I want people to recapture a sense of belief and enthusiasm for our project. A belief to make our shared space safer, fairer, more just and more equal. A belief that together we are stronger and we are better. A belief that ours is a Europe for all.”

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament 2024-2027

US President Donald Trump has stated that he would “absolutely” introduce tariffs targeting the EU, citing grievances over EU action against US tech firms and a trade deficit in goods. He also threatened to use tariffs to pressure Denmark into handing over Greenland.

President Trump &nbsp;announced a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico, which he later delayed by a month, as well as a 10 percent tariff on imports from China. Parliament is committed to multilateralism and has called for the urgent reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Leading MEPs&nbsp; said it is “imperative for the US and the EU to work closely together to defend multilateralism and the rules-based international order”. Meanwhile, the EU has strengthened the tools at its disposal to protect EU trade, which now include the Anti-Coercion Instrument designed to enable the EU to respond, as a last resort, to economic blackmail from a foreign country.

According to the Commission, the EU has a €154 billion trade surplus in goods with the US, while the US maintains a €104 billion surplus in services with the EU, resulting in an overall EU trade surplus of three percent from a total €1.5 trillion trade flow. In 2023, the US was the largest partner for EU exports of goods and the second largest partner for EU imports of goods.

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Have a look at stockshots (from 2021 onwards) with illustrative pre-edited broadcast quality video footage. These editable stockshots are clean (raw), with natural sound (no voice-over), produced to illustrate priority EU dossiers and parliamentary work. They are intended to help audiovisual media produce their own programs, for example, editing of news reports or documentaries.

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Progress in the UN-led efforts for the resumption of negotiations towards a solution to the Cyprus problem: opening statement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

EP Plenary session - Energy-intensive industries

European steel and metals action plan: extracts from the debate

EP Plenary session - European steel and metals action plan

EU Preparedness Union Strategy: extracts from the debate

EP Plenary session - Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)

Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine: extracts from the statement by Kaja KALLAS, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and from the MEPs debate

EP Plenary session - Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025

Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 20 March 2025: opening statement by Ursula von der LEYEN, President of the European Commission

EP Plenary session (31/3 - 3/4): editing shots (exterior and interior shots of the EP)

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Zagreb (Croatia) with Dubravka ŠUICA, EC for the Mediterranean and Gordan GRLIĆ RADMAN, Croatian Minister for Foreign and European Affairs: extracts from the Inauguration of the Europa Experience

Infoclip: European Automotive Industry's competitiveness

Infoclip: General views of Washington D.C. (United States of America)

Infoclip: Schengen area

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Monetary Dialogue with Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank

Press conference by Bernd LANGE (S&D, DE), Chair of the EP Committee on International Trade, on New tariffs imposed by Trump administration

Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary Meeting

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Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee – Inter-Parliamentary Delegation 23rd Meeting of the EU-Montenegro SAPC (Second Session)

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Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Ordinary meeting

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Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly Ordinary meeting

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The global economy is changing rapidly, requiring decisive action to safeguard and strengthen Europe's competitiveness, prosperity, and fairness, including in relation to other global actors. The recently-proposed&nbsp;Automotive Industry Plan, announced on 5 March 2025, it is intended to support the European automotive sector as it deals with high manufacturing costs, the low-carbon transition, and increased competition from China.&nbsp;

Parliament reviews recent Commission proposals to support the EU steel and metals industries, and the EU’s approach to other energy-intensive industries.The sector, which is critical for the EU's security of supply, is facing high energy costs and unfair global competition at a time when money is needed to pay for decarbonisation.

European competitiveness

This infoclip illustrates key areas of the trade between the United States of America and the European Union. The footage features shots of European brands in New York, specifically showcasing European cars, food, wine, and fashion labels. This infoclip also highlights the steel industry, showing workers in a steel production workshop and the use of steel in train construction. Additionally, the clip includes footage of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) being delivered to Europe at the Gate (Gas Access to Europe) terminal in the port of Rotterdam. The European Union and the United States have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship and the most integrated economic relationship in the world. Together, they represent almost 30% of global trade in goods and services and 43% of global GDP. In 2023, transatlantic trade in goods and services exceeded €1.5 trillion.

Infoclip: EU-US Trade relations

This infoclip illustrates the automotive industry from different angles, such as car shipping; manufacturing, car dealers, electric vehicles charging, and a car repair garage. The clip shows the automotive port of Antwerp-Bruges, the Audi factory in Brussels and a car dealer in Brussels city center. In spring 2024, the German manufacturer announced the restructuring of its Brussels plant, provoking protest among employees and trade unions. The European automotive sector is experiencing a crisis sparked by the transition to low carbon technologies, the degradation of supply chains, increased competition from Asia, and decreased demand for electric models.

The infoclip features the Antwerp’s commercial harbour, showing container barges transporting cars and other goods into containers. It also highlights tugboat maneuvers ships through the busy port. Aerial drone shots provide general overviews of the harbour’s scale and activity. From street-level views captured from a car, we see the trucks transporting goods into the port. The footage also highlights modern wind turbines. Shipping remains one of the most important means of trade for the Member States of the EU. Nowadays, ships carry more than half the value of goods imports to the EU and over 40 percent of goods exports from the EU. In 2021, about 1.1 trillion euros worth of goods were imported to the EU, and about 956 billion euros worth of cargo exported from the EU by sea.

Infoclip: Maritime trade

On Wednesday morning, MEPs hold an initial debate with the European Commission on its new action plan to transition to a competitive and decarbonised steel and metals industry in Europe. The sector, which is critical for the EU's security of supply, is facing high energy costs and unfair global competition at a time when money is needed to pay for decarbonisation.

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