EP Plenary Session
- Date: 23.3.2009 — 26.3.2009
- Venue: Strasbourg
- Category: Presidency of the Council in the EP
Selected highlights of the Brussels plenary:
- Combating multiple discrimination
- MEPs to vote on resolution on European conscience and heroes of the fight against totalitarianism
- Union citizenship and freedom of movement: MEPs slam Member States
- Regional development funding for energy efficiency investment in housing
- European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund - updating the financial rules
- Step up eco-labelling, design and management, says Environment Committee
- MEPs call for increased participation in EU's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
- International Treaty for the protection of the Arctic
- EU-Russia cooperation agreement: MEPs’ recommendations
- MEPs to vote on resolution on EU-Belarus relations
- Avoiding potential risks of electromagnetic fields
- The establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin
- Migration and mobility: challenges and opportunities for European education systems
- European cooperation for better schools
- Union citizenship: problems and prospects
- MEPs call for a moving towards a clear and transparent visa policy
Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs to take part in EP plenary
Today, Alexandr Vondra will speak on behalf of the Council at the EP plenary on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Russia and the issue of the Arctic. He will also meet with the Council Deputy Secretary –General Pierre de Boissieu.
On Thursday, the Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs will lead “trialogues” on behalf of the Council with two committees of the European Parliament – the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). The objective is to reach agreement between the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council on the 5 billion package which will be distributed between projects on energy interconnections, new challenges in agriculture and broadband internet in rural areas as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan. The package has already been adopted by the European Council, but it will come into force only after it has been passed by the European Parliament.
On the agenda is also a Trio meeting – a meeting of representatives of the three subsequent Presidencies – France, the Czech Republic and Sweden - with Commissioner for Enlargement O. Rehn. Deputy PM Vondra, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and French Secretary of State for European Affairs Bruno le Maire, together with the Commission, will address the dispute between Slovenia and Croatia hindering Croatia’s EU accession procedure.
Media opportunity:
The Deputy Prime Minister will give a press conference on 2 April at 13:45 in the press room of the Council building in Brussels (Justus Lipsius, Rue de la Loi 175, Brussels)
- More information on the website of the European Parliament
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