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Λεπτομερής ανάλυση - Strong bicameralism: Pressures for change in inter-institutional legislative negotiations in the EU, the USA, and Germany - 28-02-2022
27/02/2022
EPRS invites leading experts and commentators to share their thinking and insights on important features of the European Union as a political and economic system. In this paper, Gijs Jan Brandsma, Associate Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and Christilla Roederer-Rynning, Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, reflect on the means for finding agreement between the two chambers in bicameral legislatures, taking as case studies Germany and the United States as well as the European Union, exploring how they operate and looking at pressures for reform.
Μελέτη - The Council: A second chamber for the European Union? - 28-02-2022
27/02/2022
The Conference on the Future of Europe is an opportunity to reflect on the Union's democratic foundations, including the legislative role of the Council of the European Union (EU) and its relations with the European Parliament. Is it pertinent to reform the Council, either by reinforcing its parliamentary features or by transforming it into a Senate or a Second Chamber? Would such a change enhance the democratic legitimacy of the EU decision-making process? To answer these questions, this study looks at three connected issues in detail. First, it analyses the role of second chambers in the integration process of sovereign states in broader political entities (higher polity). Second, it examines the different bicameral systems (composition, powers, and functions), particularly in the EU Member States, but also in other models that may help as a reference. Third, it explores proposals to reform the Council put forward by leading political and academic figures. The study aims at providing a set of tools that may serve as inspiration should calls to transform this key EU institution be followed, and suggests three reform scenarios, using the instruments found in existing parliamentary and federal systems.
Μελέτη - European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security - Citizens' recommendations and the EU context: Panel 2 of the Conference on the Future of Europe - 28-02-2022
27/02/2022
In the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe, four European citizens' panels have discussed the development of European integration in broad subject areas. For each of the 39 recommendations put forward by European Citizens' Panel 2: European democracy / Values and rights, rule of law, security, the present paper sets out a selection of the most recent and relevant European Parliament resolutions on the matter and looks at existing EU legislation and other EU funding programmes, supporting and coordinating actions. However, this paper is not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all European Parliament resolutions and EU-level action in the area, but rather aims at feeding debate and discussion during the Conference plenary.
Μελέτη - Climate change, environment and health - Citizens' recommendations and the EU context: Panel 3 of the Conference on the Future of Europe - 28-02-2022
27/02/2022
In the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe, four European Citizens' Panels have discussed the development of European integration in broad subject areas. For each of the 51 recommendations put forward by European Citizens' Panel 3: Climate change, environment and health, the present paper sets out a selection of the most recent and relevant European Parliament resolutions on the matter and looks at existing EU legislation and other EU funding programmes, supporting and coordinating actions. However, this paper is not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all European Parliament resolutions and EU-level action in the area, but rather aims at feeding debate and discussion during the Conference plenary.
Highlights - Debate on the state of democratic space and civil society in Russia - Subcommittee on Human Rights
28/02/2022
On 3 March the Subcommittee on Human Rights will discuss with senior Russian experts, the shrinking space for democracy and the civil society in their country. The exchange of views takes place in the shadow of the military and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, caused by large-scale military attacks by the Russian Federation.
Invited speakers include Dmitri Muratov, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Novaja Gazeta editor, Andrei Kolesnikov, senior fellow and the chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, Denis Volkov, Director of the Levada Center in Moscow and Damelya Aitkhozhina, Researcher at the Moscow Office of the Human Rights Watch.
Draft agenda
Answer to a written question - Revision of Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 and the EU legal framework for air navigation and cabin crew - E-005627/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005627/2021
Answer to a written question - Energy from renewable sources – 2030 - E-000176/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000176/2022
Answer to a written question - What potential does sustainable aviation fuel have? - E-000059/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000059/2022
Answer to a written question - Single passenger registration system - E-005736/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005736/2021
Answer to a written question - Ensuring food supply and food security - E-000155/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000155/2022
Answer to a written question - EU position on loss and damage at COP26 and subsequent remarks - E-000180/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000180/2022
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Answer to a written question - Shortcomings in cumulative risk assessment for pesticide residues and implementation of a horizontal mixture assessment factor across chemical regulations - E-000101/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000101/2022
Answer to a written question - LULUCF in Sweden and Finland - E-000224/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000224/2022
Answer to a written question - European and intercontinental hydrogen network roll-out - E-005554/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005554/2021
Answer to a written question - Retroactive measures in the Renewable Energy Directive - E-000016/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000016/2022
Answer to a written question - Wolf population figures for Europe - E-000114/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000114/2022
Answer to a written question - The Commission’s position on the new tax agreement adopted in the OECD - E-005592/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005592/2021
Answer to a written question - Excessive requirements and novelty foods - E-000265/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000265/2022
Answer to a written question - Animal welfare - E-000134/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000134/2022
Answer to a written question - Cumulative impact assessment of the combined effects of the Fit for 55 package - E-005620/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005620/2021
Answer to a written question - The situation on the border between Poland and Belarus - E-004482/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-004482/2021
Answer to a written question - The seventh Spain‑Turkey Summit and the Member States’ consistent implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan III - E-005305/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005305/2021
Answer to a written question - Conferences and meetings with remote participation - E-000054/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000054/2022
Answer to a written question - Proportionality of the COVID‑19 restrictions in Austria and Latvia - E-005295/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005295/2021
Answer to a written question - Commission funding for a webinar featuring hard-line Islamists - E-004344/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-004344/2021
Answer to a written question - Economic damage inflicted by the EU’s embargo on Russia - E-000004/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000004/2022
Answer to a written question - Increased energy costs - E-005698/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005698/2021
Answer to a written question - The problem of natural gas in the European Union - E-005677/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005677/2021
Answer to a written question - Global food production system affected by conflicting EU and USA positions - E-005675/2021(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-005675/2021
Answer to a written question - Empty planes being operated in the EU - E-000044/2022(ASW)
28/02/2022
See question(s) : E-000044/2022
Briefing - EU international investment policy: Looking ahead - 28-02-2022
27/02/2022
The Lisbon Treaty entered into force in 2009, providing the European Union (EU) with exclusive competence in the area of 'direct investment', as part of the common commercial policy. This covers the conclusion of international investment agreements (IIAs), which typically aim to protect and/or liberalise foreign direct investment. Since then, the EU has ratified protection IIAs (or provisions in trade agreements) with Canada, Singapore and Vietnam. Early on, concerns were raised as to the specific EU competence. Opinions requested from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) established that the EU had neither exclusive competence in portfolio international investments (which, unlike direct investments, provide limited control over a firm) nor in the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism – two domains covered by EU protection IIAs. EU Member State approval on these provisions was therefore needed. Moreover, to tackle stakeholders' general misgivings about the ISDS system – currently based on arbitral tribunals and perceived by some as insufficiently transparent and predictable – the EU is actively contributing to the multilateral talks to reform the current system, the objective being to establish a fully fledged 'multilateral investment court' with an appeal tribunal and its own judges. Furthermore, EU Member States have protection IIAs with other Member States in place (intra-EU IIAs), which envisage arbitral ISDS mechanisms. However, the CJEU ruled in 2018 that arbitral decisions between Member States are incompatible with EU law, and most Member States have agreed to terminate their intra-EU IIAs, raising major stakeholder concerns; the European Commission has launched an initiative to address these with a proposal for a regulation. Finally, for security reasons, the EU has also implemented EU- and domestic-level mechanisms to screen, coordinate and exchange information about direct investment entering the EU. The European Parliament is preparing an o
Press release - EU job-search aid worth €2.8m for 450 dismissed car industry workers in Spain
28/02/2022
450 employees in Spain who lost their jobs in the car industry when the Nissan production plant in Barcelona closed should receive €2.8 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets
Press release - Future of Europe: final set of European Citizens’ Panel recommendations
28/02/2022
The final meeting of the Panel on ‘A stronger economy, social justice and jobs / Education, culture, youth and sport / Digital transformation’ took place in Dublin over the weekend.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on increasing funding and removing bureaucratic obstacles in admission to early childhood education - B9-0096/2022
28/02/2022
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
pursuant to Rule 143 of the Rules of Procedure
on increasing funding and removing bureaucratic obstacles in admission to early childhood education
Viktor Uspaskich
B9-0123/2022
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 023-029 - B9-0123/2022(023-029)
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 023-029
AMENDMENTS 001-010 - B9-0123/2022(001-010)
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 001-010
AMENDMENTS 011-011 - B9-0123/2022(011-011)
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 011-011
AMENDMENTS 012-012 - B9-0123/2022(012-012)
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 012-012
AMENDMENTS 013-022 - B9-0123/2022(013-022)
28/02/2022
AMENDMENTS 013-022
Press release - International Women’s Day: an ambitious future for women after COVID-19
28/02/2022
MEPs and national parliamentarians will discuss the post-pandemic future for Europe’s women at an inter-parliamentary committee meeting on Thursday morning.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
EuroparlTV Video - Economy, jobs, digitalisation, youth: Citizens make recommendations in Dublin
28/02/2022
European citizens have voted for 48 recommendations to help shape the EU of tomorrow. Some 200 participants were in Dublin for the third and final session of the European Citizens’ Panel on a stronger economy, social justice & jobs, education, culture & sport and digital transformation. Representatives will take the recommendations forward to the plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.Press release - International Women’s Day: an ambitious future for women after COVID-19
28/02/2022
MEPs and national parliamentarians will discuss the post-pandemic future for Europe’s women at an inter-parliamentary committee meeting on Thursday morning.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Press release - Future of Europe: final set of European Citizens’ Panel recommendations
28/02/2022
The final meeting of the Panel on ‘A stronger economy, social justice and jobs / Education, culture, youth and sport / Digital transformation’ took place in Dublin over the weekend.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Press release - EU job-search aid worth €2.8m for 450 dismissed car industry workers in Spain
28/02/2022
450 employees in Spain who lost their jobs in the car industry when the Nissan production plant in Barcelona closed should receive €2.8 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets
Article - Citizens put forward ideas for the future of Europe’s economy, jobs, education
28/02/2022
The final meeting of a series of citizens’ panels saw Europeans formulate ideas on how the EU should promote quality jobs, a healthy economy and social justice.Press release - International Women’s Day: an ambitious future for women after COVID-19
28/02/2022
MEPs and national parliamentarians will discuss the post-pandemic future for Europe’s women at an inter-parliamentary committee meeting on Thursday morning.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Press release - Future of Europe: final set of European Citizens’ Panel recommendations
28/02/2022
The final meeting of the Panel on ‘A stronger economy, social justice and jobs / Education, culture, youth and sport / Digital transformation’ took place in Dublin over the weekend.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Press release - EU job-search aid worth €2.8m for 450 dismissed car industry workers in Spain
28/02/2022
450 employees in Spain who lost their jobs in the car industry when the Nissan production plant in Barcelona closed should receive €2.8 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets
