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Press release - ECB boss pledges to MEPs to fight inflation and restore confidence
26/09/2022
The European Central Bank President announced future interest hikes, while MEPs voiced concerns about rising energy and food prices, and mortgage rates.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Press release - ECB boss pledges to MEPs to fight inflation and restore confidence
26/09/2022
The European Central Bank President announced future interest hikes, while MEPs voiced concerns about rising energy and food prices, and mortgage rates.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
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Press release - ECB boss pledges to MEPs to fight inflation and restore confidence
26/09/2022
The European Central Bank President announced future interest hikes, while MEPs voiced concerns about rising energy and food prices, and mortgage rates.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
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Video of another event - Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America - Monday, 26 September 2022 - 16:45
26/09/2022
Length of video : 95'
Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
Article - Sakharov Prize 2022: the nominees
26/09/2022
Find out who the 2022 nominees for the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought are.Press release - ECB boss pledges to MEPs to fight inflation and restore confidence
26/09/2022
The European Central Bank President announced future interest hikes, while MEPs voiced concerns about rising energy and food prices, and mortgage rates.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Video of another event - Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America - Monday, 26 September 2022 - 16:52
26/09/2022
Length of video : 84'
Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
Άρθρο - Βραβείο Ζαχάρωφ 2022: ποιοι είναι οι υποψήφιοι;
26/09/2022
Ανακαλύψτε τους φετινούς υποψηφίους του Βραβείου Ζαχάρωφ για την Ελευθερία της Σκέψης του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου.
Βίντεο της συνεδρίασης επιτροπής - Δευτέρα 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022 - 15:05 - Υποεπιτροπή Ασφάλειας και Άμυνας
26/09/2022
Βίντεο άλλης εκδήλωσης : 137'
Ρήτρα αποποίησης ευθυνών : Η διερμηνεία κατά τη διάρκεια των συζητήσεων διευκολύνει την επικοινωνία και δεν πρέπει να συγχέεται με τα επίσημα πρακτικά. Μόνο οι πρωτότυπες ομιλίες και οι αναθεωρημένες γραπτές μεταφράσεις αποτελούν τα επίσημα πρακτικά.
Highlights - European Parliament at the WTO Public Forum - Committee on International Trade
26/09/2022
A delegation from the European Parliament, drawn from the International Trade Committee (INTA), will participate in this year's Public Forum of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
The WTO Public Forum '22, the largest annual outreach event at the WTO, will take place in Geneva from 27 to 30 September. During these four days, almost 150 panels and more than 3000 participants will look at how trade can contribute to post-pandemic economic recovery.
The European Parliament, together with the Inter-Parliamentary Union, will organise a session on 27 September from 15.45 to 17.00 on "Food security as a key element for a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive trading system".
Back-to-back with the Public Forum, Members will meet Parliamentarians from around the world in the framework of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, with an agenda featuring a discussion on Trade and Climate. During the visit to Geneva, Members will also hold bilateral meetings with representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and of the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), among others.
Hearings - Hearing on Russian disinformation regarding its war of aggression against Ukraine - 29-09-2022 - Special Committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation (INGE 2) - Subcommittee on Security and Defence - Committee on Foreign Affairs
26/09/2022
The ING2 meeting on Thursday 29 September from 9.00 to 12.30 will start with a hearing on "Russian disinformation and propaganda regarding Ukraine in the light of its war of aggression and its impact on democratic processes in the European Union".
Members will exchange views with experts about the tactics and techniques used by the Kremlin in spreading disinformation and propaganda around Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and what impact these narratives have on the EU's democratic processes.
The invited experts are:
• Olga Rudenko, Editor-in-chief, Kyiv Independent,
• Michael Sheldon, Researcher, Bellingcat,
• Ross Burley, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Centre for Information Resilience.
The meeting will be held in association with the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (D-RU).
Draft agenda of the meeting
Hearing programme
Newsletter
e-Meeting documents
Briefing - More flexible VAT rates - 26-09-2022
26/09/2022
Value added tax (VAT) is an important source of revenue for national governments and the European Union (EU) budget and, from an economic point of view, a very efficient consumption tax. However, the rules governing value added tax as applied to intra-Community trade are almost 30 years old and the current common EU VAT system is both complicated and vulnerable to fraud. Businesses doing cross-border trade face high compliance costs and the administrative burden of national tax administrations is also excessive. In January 2018, the European Commission adopted a proposal to amend Directive 2006/112/EC (the VAT Directive) and reform the rules by which Member States set VAT rates. Whilst the Commission's proposal was heavily amended, the Council adopted a revision to the VAT rate-setting rules in April 2022, modernising the list of products to which non-standard VAT rates can be applied, and in particular bringing the rules closer in line with the wider objectives of the EU (EU Green Deal, digitalisation, health). Third edition of a briefing originally drafted by Ana Claudia Alfieri. 'EU legislation in progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.
Latest news - Upcoming INTA meetings - Committee on International Trade
26/09/2022
The next INTA Committee meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, 10 October 2022, 15.00 - 18.30 in Brussels, SPINELLI 3E2.
The meetings will be web-streamed.
Meeting documents
Revised EP calendar 2022
INTA meetings calendar 2022
INTA Standing Rapporteurs and Monitoring Groups
Latest news - Next meeting of the FISC Subcommittee - Subcommittee on Tax Matters
26/09/2022
From 19 to 20 September, Members of the FISC Subcommittee will travel to Dublin (Ireland) on a mission to meet with key institutions and various stakeholders and discuss topical international tax issues and challenges.
The next meeting of the FISC Subcommittee will take place on Thursday, 13 October, from 9.00 to 12.30
Webstreaming
FISC Workload - Upcoming Hearings, Exchanges of Views and Other Events - as of 26 September 2022
Briefing - European Parliament scrutiny of Frontex - 26-09-2022
26/09/2022
Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 transformed Frontex into the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and considerably increased its tasks, powers, responsibilities and budget. The regulation also gave the European Parliament a range of tools affording it oversight of the agency's activities. In addition to budgetary discharge, these include an obligation for the agency to provide Parliament with information, a key role for Parliament in appointing the agency's executive director, and attendance, on invitation, by a Parliament expert at Frontex management board meetings. These tools effectively make Parliament the key player in terms of democratic oversight of the agency. In 2020, Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) decided to investigate the allegations of Frontex's possible involvement in pushbacks and violations of fundamental rights by Member States' authorities at the EU's external borders. Parliament used both ex-ante and ex-post accountability instruments, as part of which it asked questions demanding oral and written answers, requested the Frontex executive director to appear before LIBE to answer Members' questions, and decided to postpone the discharge of Frontex's accounts for the financial year 2019; it granted discharge in October 2021. In May 2022, Parliament decided to once again postpone the discharge of Frontex's accounts, this time in respect of the financial year 2020. In January 2021, LIBE stepped up its action and established the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) to monitor all aspects of the functioning of the agency, including compliance with fundamental rights, and transparency and accountability towards Parliament. The FSWG conducted a fact-finding investigation, collected evidence and presented its final report in July 2021. In December 2020, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) also opened an investigation into FRONTEX's affairs. In April 2022, Frontex Executive Director, Fabrice Leggeri, resigned with i
Briefing - European Parliament scrutiny of Frontex - 26-09-2022
26/09/2022
Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 transformed Frontex into the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and considerably increased its tasks, powers, responsibilities and budget. The regulation also gave the European Parliament a range of tools affording it oversight of the agency's activities. In addition to budgetary discharge, these include an obligation for the agency to provide Parliament with information, a key role for Parliament in appointing the agency's executive director, and attendance, on invitation, by a Parliament expert at Frontex management board meetings. These tools effectively make Parliament the key player in terms of democratic oversight of the agency. In 2020, Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) decided to investigate the allegations of Frontex's possible involvement in pushbacks and violations of fundamental rights by Member States' authorities at the EU's external borders. Parliament used both ex-ante and ex-post accountability instruments, as part of which it asked questions demanding oral and written answers, requested the Frontex executive director to appear before LIBE to answer Members' questions, and decided to postpone the discharge of Frontex's accounts for the financial year 2019; it granted discharge in October 2021. In May 2022, Parliament decided to once again postpone the discharge of Frontex's accounts, this time in respect of the financial year 2020. In January 2021, LIBE stepped up its action and established the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) to monitor all aspects of the functioning of the agency, including compliance with fundamental rights, and transparency and accountability towards Parliament. The FSWG conducted a fact-finding investigation, collected evidence and presented its final report in July 2021. In December 2020, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) also opened an investigation into FRONTEX's affairs. In April 2022, Frontex Executive Director, Fabrice Leggeri, resigned with i
Latest news - Next CULT Committee meeting: Monday 3 October in Strasbourg - Committee on Culture and Education
26/09/2022
The next meeting of the Committee on Culture and Education will take place on Monday 3 October 2022 from 19.00 - 21.00 in Room: WEISS N1.3, Strasbourg.
List of CULT Coordinators - as of September 2022
Provisional calendar of CULT Committee meetings for 2022
EP calendar 2022
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Highlights - New European Agenda for Culture - Committee on Culture and Education
26/09/2022
On 3 October, the CULT committee will deliberate on a draft report on implementing the New European Agenda for Culture and the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations. The rapporteur, Ms Salima Yenbou (RENEW), deems that good progress has been made in implementing the Agenda's objectives.
Nevertheless, more ambition and an increased commitment to following up on project results are needed. For this, the rapporteur believes that a fully-fledged strategy is needed, including more significant financial and human resources, as well as rethinking monitoring and evaluation methods, to ensure that positive project outcomes are not lost over time.
Latest news - ENVI Committee meetings - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
26/09/2022
The next ENVI Committee meetings will take place on:Monday, 26 September 2022, 15:00-18:30 (in Brussels)
Monday, 3 October 2022, 19:00-21:00 (Strasbourg)
Work in progress - ENVI ITER listing (Updated 26.09.2022)
Overview of the timelines for the climate package 2030 in ENVI
Watch ENVI meetings live
Latest votes in ENVI
Highlights - Revision of the Treaties - presentation draft position - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September, FEMM Committee will debate on a draft position in form of amendments in the perspective of a Convention for the revision of the Treaties.
Rapporteur Lina Gálvez Muñoz proposed amendments in form of a draft position in the perspective of a Convention for the revision of the Treaties. This draft position suggests to reword the primary law with gender terminology, implement gender mainstreaming when designing and implementing EU legislations, programmes and measures, explicitly proclaim the women's right to sexual and reproductive health in the Charter and include gender based violence in the list of "EU-crimes". The rapporteur also proposes to use this Treaties' revision to achieve gender balance within the EU institutions and its bodies themselves, move to ordinary procedure EU family law, encourage data collection disaggregated by race and gender (intersectional discrimination), and put the EU Budget, taxation policy and economic and social governance at the service of reducing inequalities in general, gender gap in particular.
Procedure: 2022/2051(INL)
Rapporteur FEMM: Lina Galvez Muñoz (S&D, ES)
Highlights - MFF and the RRF and gender budgeting methodologies - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September 2022, the FEMM Committee will debate with Commission and EIGE on the gender budgeting methodologies.
FEMM committee will welcome for an exchange of views Ms Céline Gauer, Director-General, Head of the Recovery and Resilience Task Force (EC). Since its 2019 resolution, the Parliament is committed to ensuring that the annual budgetary procedures integrate gender-responsive elements and for an EP joint gender action plan that provides a gender perspective in all its activities. In this framework and following the EIGE roadmap for the implementation of the Gender Action Plan, FEMM will take stock of the commitment of the Commission under the MFF and RRF and will further contribute with concrete proposals and tools to be developed by the committees to further strengthen gender budgeting methodologies.
Highlights - Care as driver of sustainable growth - presentation of study - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September, FEMM Committee will invite Meenakshi Fernandes and Cecilia Navarra (EAVA), to present their study on "What if care work were recognised as a driver of sustainable growth?".
After the adoption by the Parliament in plenary last July of the joint EMPL-FEMM report on 'Common European Action on Care' and the presentation by the Commission of its Strategy, FEMM will hear Meenakshi Fernandes and Cecilia Navarra (European Added Value Unit (EAVA)), authors of a study on care work as a 'driver of sustainable growth'. Care work is indeed undervalued and care workers (9 in 10 are women) have low earnings (when they are paid) and precarious conditions. According to this study published by EPRS, "fostering the 'equal earner - equal carer model' could generate benefits of between €24billion and €48 billion a year".
Study ""What if care work were recognised as a driver of sustainable growth?"
Highlights - Public Hearing on Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Brazil - Subcommittee on Human Rights
26/09/2022
On 26 September the Subcommittee on Human Rights will hold a hearing on Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Brazil. The hearing will follow up Parliament's call for indigenous peoples' rights to be fully protected, including their land, territories and resources.
The focus will be on the challenges the EU should tackle as a priority, including criminalisation and systematic attacks against indigenous leaders, grabbing and environmental destruction, as well as participation by indigenous peoples in decisions that affect them.
From: 17:45 to 19:00, Room: SPAAK 5B-01
Webstreaming
Programme
Highlights - Revision of the Treaties - presentation draft position - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September, FEMM Committee will debate on a draft position in form of amendments in the perspective of a Convention for the revision of the Treaties.
Rapporteur Lina Gálvez Muñoz proposed amendments in form of a draft position in the perspective of a Convention for the revision of the Treaties. This draft position suggests to reword the primary law with gender terminology, implement gender mainstreaming when designing and implementing EU legislations, programmes and measures, explicitly proclaim the women's right to sexual and reproductive health in the Charter and include gender based violence in the list of "EU-crimes". The rapporteur also proposes to use this Treaties' revision to achieve gender balance within the EU institutions and its bodies themselves, move to ordinary procedure EU family law, encourage data collection disaggregated by race and gender (intersectional discrimination), and put the EU Budget, taxation policy and economic and social governance at the service of reducing inequalities in general, gender gap in particular.
Latest news - Next FEMM committee meeting - 29 September 2022 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
The next meeting will take place on:
29 September 9:00-11:00
Upcoming FEMM Committee Meetings 2nd half 2022 (Update: 9 August 2022)
EP Calendar of Activities 2022
FEMM work in progress (Update: 9 August 2022)
List of FEMM Bureau and Coordinators (as at 20 May 2022)
FEMM latest press releases
Highlights - MFF and the RRF and gender budgeting methodologies - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September 2022, the FEMM Committee will debate with Commission and EIGE on the gender budgeting methodologies.
FEMM committee will welcome for an exchange of views Ms Céline Gauer, Director-General, Head of the Recovery and Resilience Task Force (EC) and Ms Helena Morais Maceira, gender mainstreaming expert (EIGE). Since its 2019 resolution, the Parliament is committed to ensuring that the annual budgetary procedures integrate gender-responsive elements and for an EP joint gender action plan that provides a gender perspective in all its activities. In this framework and following the EIGE roadmap for the implementation of the Gender Action Plan, FEMM will take stock of the commitment of the Commission under the MFF and RRF and will further contribute with concrete proposals and tools to be developed by the committees to further strengthen gender budgeting methodologies.
Highlights - Care as driver of sustainable growth - presentation of study - 29.9.22 - Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
26/09/2022
On 29 September, FEMM Committee will invite Meenakshi Fernandes and Cecilia Navarra (EAVA), to present their study on "What if care work were recognised as a driver of sustainable growth?".
After the adoption by the Parliament in plenary last July of the joint EMPL-FEMM report on 'Common European Action on Care' and the presentation by the Commission of its Strategy, FEMM will hear Meenakshi Fernandes and Cecilia Navarra (European Added Value Unit (EAVA)), authors of a study on care work as a 'driver of sustainable growth'. Care work is indeed undervalued and care workers (9 in 10 are women) have low earnings (when they are paid) and precarious conditions. According to this study published by EPRS, "fostering the 'equal earner - equal carer model' could generate benefits of between €24billion and €48 billion a year".
Answer to a written question - Addition of the UAE to the EU’s list of high-risk third countries with strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes - P-002652/2022(ASW)
26/09/2022
See question(s) : P-002652/2022
Highlights - BUDG to adopt its position on the Budget 2023 - 03.10.2023 - Committee on Budgets
26/09/2022
This meeting of the Committee on Budgets will mark an important milestone of the budgetary year, as Members will process the 1253 amendments tabled to the Council's position on the Commission's Draft Budget 2023.
Following the publication of the Commission's Draft Budget on 1 July 2022, the Council formally adopted its reading on 9 September, cutting EUR 1.64 billion in commitments.
The General Rapporteur for Section III, Nicolae Stefanuta, and the Rapporteur for Other Sections, Niclas Herbst, will present their compromise proposals resulting from intense work with the shadow rapporteurs, as well as their voting recommendations before the vote. They aimed to ensure that the 2023 budget will be fit te react to the multiple crises the Union is facing.
Draft budget 2023
Council's position
BUDG working documents
Highlights - European Parliament at the WTO Public Forum - Committee on International Trade
26/09/2022
A delegation from the European Parliament, drawn from the International Trade Committee (INTA), will participate in this year's Public Forum of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
The WTO Public Forum '22, the largest annual outreach event at the WTO, will take place in Geneva from 27 to 30 September. During these four days, almost 150 panels and more than 3000 participants will look at how trade can contribute to post-pandemic economic recovery.
The European Parliament, together with the Inter-Parliamentary Union, will organise a session on 27 September from 15.45 to 17.00 on "Food security as a key element for a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive trading system".
Back-to-back with the Public Forum, Members will meet Parliamentarians from around the world in the framework of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, with an agenda featuring a discussion on Trade and Climate. During the visit to Geneva, Members will also hold bilateral meetings with representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and of the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), among others.
Latest news - What's new? - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
26/09/2022
The next EMPL meeting will take place on:
Monday 10 October 2022, 15.00 - 18.30, in room ANTALL 4Q1
Latest ITER listing (work in progress)
Amendments deadlines
EMPL meeting dates of 2022
EMPL Vademecum
List of EMPL Coordinators
Covid-19 Newsletter 1
Covid-19 Newsletter 2: Exit strategy
EMPL Activity report for the 8th legislative term
Latest news - Next SEDE meeting - 26 September 2022 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence
26/09/2022
The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on 26 September 2022.
The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.
SEDE missions 2022:
SEDE mission to Japan and South Korea - 19-23 December 2022
SEDE mission to Niger and Chad from 31 October - 4 November 2022
SEDE mission to Mozambique from 18-22 September 2022
SEDE mission to France from 19-21 July 2022
SEDE mission to Iraq from 24-28 May 2022SEDE mission to Georgia from 10-14 April 2022
SEDE meetings' calendar - first half of 2022
SEDE meetings' calendar - second half of 2022
EP calendar 2022 revised
Highlights - Priorities of the Czech Presidency in the area of security and defence - Subcommittee on Security and Defence
26/09/2022
The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will debate with Deputy Minister of Defence Jan Jireš, who will present the priorities of the Czech Presidency in the area of security and defence on 26 September. The discussions will focus on the proposed Regulation establishing the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act, the ongoing work on development of the Hybrid Toolbox, and the proposal to establish a European Union Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine.
Meeting agenda and documents
Live streaming
EU Fact Sheets: Security and defence
Newsletters - 2022 - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
26/09/2022
24-25 January 2022
2 February 2022
7 February 2022
28 February 2022
14 March 2022
21-22 March 2022
30-31 March 2022
28 April - 2 May 2022
11 May 2022
16 May 2022
30 May - 02 June 2022
13 - 14 June 2022
20 June 2022
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Latest news - Next SEDE meeting - 26 September 2022 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence
26/09/2022
The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on 26 September 2022.
The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.
SEDE missions 2022:
SEDE mission to Japan and South Korea - 19-23 December 2022
SEDE mission to Niger and Chad from 31 October - 4 November 2022
SEDE mission to Mozambique from 18-22 September 2022
SEDE mission to France from 19-21 July 2022
SEDE mission to Iraq from 24-28 May 2022SEDE mission to Georgia from 10-14 April 2022
SEDE meetings' calendar - first half of 2022
SEDE meetings' calendar - second half of 2022
EP calendar 2022 revised
Highlights - Priorities of the Czech Presidency in the area of security and defence - Subcommittee on Security and Defence
26/09/2022
The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will debate with Deputy Minister of Defence Jan Jireš, who will present the priorities of the Czech Presidency in the area of security and defence on 26 September. The discussions will focus on the proposed Regulation establishing the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act, the ongoing work on development of the Hybrid Toolbox, and the proposal to establish a European Union Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine.
Meeting agenda and documents
Live streaming
EU Fact Sheets: Security and defence
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