MEPs discuss with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the programme for Hungary’s six-month EU Council Presidency, which started on 1 July 2024. Get the Prime Minister’s main messages – and see how MEPs react.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen received today the final report of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, handed over by the group’s chair, Professor Peter Strohschneider. Entitled “A shared prospect for farming and food in Europe”, the report assesses challenges and opportunities and contains a set of recommendations.
The extreme weather events of the past few years from flash floods in Germany, torrential rain in Slovenia as well as crippling heatwaves and wildfires across the Mediterranean have shown that no region is safe from the harmful effects of a changing climate. The recent natural catastrophes are not isolated incidents but a feature of a new climate reality.
If a solar storm of the same magnitude happened today, it could devastate our vastly more connected and increasingly digital world.
MEPs discuss with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the programme for Hungary’s six-month EU Council Presidency, which started on 1 July 2024. Get the Prime Minister’s main messages – and see how MEPs react.
A committee bureau (Chair and up to four Vice-chairs) is elected for a two and a half year mandate. Committees deal with legislative proposals, appoint negotiating teams to conduct talks with EU ministers, adopt reports, organise hearings and scrutinise other EU bodies and institutions.
In Tuesday’s constitutive meeting, the Committee on Petitions elected its new Bureau, consisting of a Chair and four Vice-Chairs. The committee elected Mr Bogdan Rzońca (ECR, Poland) as its new Chair with 17 votes in favour, 16 against, and one abstention, for a period of 2.5 years.
On Tuesday, in the constitutive meeting of the Transport and Tourism committee, MEPs elected the Chair and four Vice-Chairs of the committee for a two-and-a-half year period. They elected Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi (EPP, GR) as new Chair.
Three Renew Europe MEPs have been elected to chair core Committees in the European Parliament. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann was elected Chair of SEDE, Ilhan Kyuchyuk Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee and Barry Andrews Chair of the Parliament’s Committee on Development.
In Tuesday’s constitutive meeting, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs elected its new Chair and Vice-Chairs. The committee elected Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain) as its new Chair by acclamation for a period of 2.5 years.
On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) elected Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA, DE) as committee Chair for the first half of the legislature.
On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) elected Niclas Herbst (EPP, DE) as committee Chair for the first half of the legislature.
Following the elections to the bureau of the European Parliament’s committees and subcommittees, Co-Chairmen Nicola Procaccini and Joachim Brudziński congratulated the newly elected chairs and vice-chairs. Committee MEPs elected Veronika Vrecionová as Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), Johan Van Overtveldt as Chair of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and Bogdan Rzońca as Chair of the Committee on Petitions (PETI).
These are the headlines of our weekly Insight EU Finance Monitoring, published last Friday.
On Tuesday, in the constitutive meeting of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, MEPs elected the Chair and three Vice-Chairs of the committee for a two-and-a-half year period.
At the constitutive meeting on Tuesday, the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) members re-elected Anna Cavazzini as Chair. They also elected four Vice-Chairs for the next two and half years.
During its constitutive meeting on Tuesday, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs elected Sven Simon (EPP, DE) as its Chair, as well as four Vice-Chairs to complete the committee bureau.
The EU wants to showcase European digital solutions, healthcare and medical equipment, as well as green and low-carbon technologies in South Korea.
There has been a buildup of global economic pressure through extensive non-market policies and practices. This accentuates excessive and possibly high-risk dependencies of strategic supplies, tilts the level playing field, and poses a threat to our economic security, our prosperity, and the well-being of our firms, workers, and citizens.
The EU and US reaffirmed their common commitment to a risk-based approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and support for safe and trustworthy AI technologies. A short overview document published today on AI for the Public Good identifies milestones on which the EU and US are cooperating in the areas of extreme weather, energy, emergency response and reconstruction.
The TTC is a vehicle for the EU and the US to discuss and coordinate approaches to key trade and technology issues in a context of increasing geopolitical challenges. The meeting will focus on emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, 6G and on standardisation, online platforms and secure connectivity.
With this Declaration, the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU highlights the need for decisive action during the next EU legislature and invites the Commission to present concrete measures, including legislative proposals, to implement the recommendations made in this Declaration.
In talks with EU member states, MEPs have secured key improvements to a new support facility for the Western Balkans, focusing on transparency, rule of law, and economic integration.
ESMA has opted for this format instead of the report mandated under the DLT Pilot Regime because no DLT market infrastructures have been authorised under the Regime to date, rendering a full report premature.
During 2023, guests spent more nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or TripAdvisor than in 2022.
The call for proposals was published in 2023 and is part of the EU’s Multimedia Actions which aim to increase the production and consumption of plural and independent information on European affairs across the European Union, and in many languages.
The technology workstream of the TTC has delivered positive outcomes on critical and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, quantum computing including essential coordination on quantum safe standards in critical infrastructure, and 6G vision, roadmap, and research collaboration.
The Czech Republic’s comprehensive recovery and resilience plan will be financed by €8.4 billion in grants and €818 million in loans.
Investigations into the criminal organisation uncovered an elaborate scheme that was laundering money from Italy to Brazil, through several companies. The operation on 7 October 2024 was supported by Eurojust and led to the arrest of four suspects and the seizure of nine companies in Italy, Hong Kong and Brazil.
The Belgian EU presidency informed ministers about one of its political priorities, the fight against drug trafficking and organised crime, and the state of play of the 10 priority actions that it had identified. See the other issues discussed at the EU Justice Council.
NATO Defence Ministers concluded a two-day meeting on Friday (14 June 2024) to prepare the Washington Summit in July. They discussed strengthening NATO’s deterrence and defence and support for Ukraine.
Judicial and law enforcement authorities across Europe and in the United States have dismantled critical online infrastructure in a large-scale operation to disrupt platforms and websites for terrorist communications and propaganda. Servers were taken down in Germany, the Netherlands, United States, and Iceland. The Spanish authorities arrested nine radicalised individuals.
The President of the Council of Ministers of Italy and G7 President, Giorgia Meloni, and the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, met with the other Leaders of the G7 and Italian and U.S. private sector representing the financial, energy and digital/technology sectors on the sidelines of the 2024 G7 Leaders’ Summit on June 13th, in Borgo Egnazia, Italy.
Yemen: Principals of affected United Nations Entities and International Non-Governmental Organizations demand the immediate release of detained personnel.
One of the key achievements was a report, issued by Europol in April 2024, mapping the most threatening criminal networks. The report, a first of its kind, describes how the most threatening criminal networks are organised, which criminal activities they engage in and how and where they operate.
The measure is worth €9 million, and will finance air defence systems’ short-range interceptors for the benefit of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Moldova. It complements a €41 million assistance to modernise the defence capacities of the Moldovan Armed Forces in the areas of mobility, air surveillance, electronic warfare, and logistics.
To ensure that all victims of crime in the EU receive the appropriate support, the Council agreed its position (general approach) on a proposed update to the 2012 Victims’ Rights Directive.
The Council welcomes the proposal to extend the temporary protection for the more than 4 million Ukrainians fleeing from Russia’s war of aggression until 4 March 2026.
Luxembourg, 13 June 2024 The Council today took note of the ninth progress report on
Hungary is ordered to pay a lump sum of €200 million and a penalty payment of €1 million per day of delay for failure to comply with a judgment of the EU Court of Justice. The failure, which consists in deliberately avoiding the application of a common EU policy as a whole, constitutes an “unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU”, according to the EU Court.
Judgment of the EU Court in Case C-563/22: Stateless persons of Palestinian origin registered with UNRWA should, in principle, be granted refugee status if UNRWA’s protection or assistance is considered to have ceased.
The aim of the scheme is to promote the shift of freight and passenger transport from road to rail and to improve the security and efficiency of rail transport. The scheme will be fully funded through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (‘RRF’), following the Commission’s positive assessment of Poland’s Recovery and Resilience Plan and its adoption by the Council.
Without the presence of any EU-Commissioner, the ministers discussed the role of geothermal energy. The participants agreed that geothermal energy is a critically important alternative and sustainable renewable energy source for both heating and electricity generation and offer a number of as yet unused benefits.
The rise of fast-fashion, marked by rapid turnover of collections, has led to a sevenfold increase in the global trade of used clothing in the last 4 decades. With more than 80% of all purchased clothing items globally (62% in the EU) being disposed of as general garbage, which is incinerated or landfilled, this represents a massive waste of resources, causing severe environmental and health impacts.
The EU Council today approved the Commission’s positive assessment of Germany’s amended recovery and resilience plan. The amended plan now includes a new REPowerEU chapter worth €2.3 billion. This will contribute to accelerating Germany’s transition towards clean energy by increasing the share of renewables in the German energy mix.
Following a blackout in the south-eastern part of Continental Europe on 21 June, ENTSO-E has set up an Expert Panel and has invited ACER and relevant regulators in the region to join it. Today, ENTSO-E, ACER and the regulators in the region convened in the first meeting of this Expert Panel.
In 2023, the EU Parliament, the EU Council and the EU Commission signed a Joint Declaration establishing an annual Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis, on 15 July each year. It is an occasion to remember victims in Europe and worldwide, as well as to raise awareness how to reduce the risk of climate change to respond to climate disasters.
The transaction mainly concerns the manufacture and supply of fuel cell light commercial vehicles and the supply of hydrogen refueling stations.
As environmental, technological and societal change join forces to disrupt human and planetary health, the world must get better at tracking and responding to a host of emerging challenges, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Science Council (ISC).
The Hungarian EU Council presidency presented its work programme for the coming semester in the fields of agriculture and fisheries. The EU Council discussed ways to improve the long-term viability of rural areas, focussing on generational renewal and demography. Additionally, ministers discussed trade-related agricultural issues and developments.
Bundesminister Habeck hat heute gemeinsam mit mehreren Wirtschaftsministerinnen und -ministern der Länder die Förderbescheide für 23 herausragende und zukunftsweisende Wasserstoffprojekte übergeben. Ein weiteres Vorhaben kann mit einem vorzeitigen Maßnahmenbeginn starten.
The European Union and Jordan held the fifteenth meeting of their Association Council on 15 July 2024 in Brussels, in which they reviewed their increasingly dynamic and multifaceted partnership.
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