On Thursday, MEPs finalised their recommendations for the EU's position on the upcoming UN global gathering on women’s rights in New York in March 2025.
On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions related to the respect for human rights in Crimea, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.
Speaking at the European Council, President Metsola called on leaders to step up in order to assert Europe’s place on the world stage.
Thursday, 19 December
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Addressing the EU and Western Balkans leaders in Brussels, Metsola stressed that faced with today's global geopolitical realities, it was time to move faster with regards to enlargement.
Parliament has approved changes put forward by its Conference of Presidents, establishing two new standing and two special committees.
In a plenary vote on Wednesday, MEPs supported Italian candidate Bruna Szego’s appointment as Chair of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority.
On Wednesday morning, the President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili delivered a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Wednesday, 18 December
On Wednesday at 8.30 CET, the President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili will give a speech to MEPs at the hemicycle in Strasbourg.
President Metsola presented the Sakharov Prize 2024 to Venezuela’s Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado at a ceremony on Tuesday in Strasbourg.
Two new EU laws will offer quick EU funding for recovery measures following natural disasters that have occurred after 1 January 2024.
On Tuesday, Parliament backed Teresa Anjinho (Portugal) as the European Ombudsman for a five-year mandate, with the support of 344 MEPs in a secret plenary vote.
Companies will have one more year to comply with new EU rules to prevent deforestation that will ban the sale in the EU of products sourced from deforested land.
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