Category: _EU Parliament News

On Wednesday at noon, MEPs will vote on Parliament’s response to the Council’s June 2025 position on air passenger rights. They are expected to seek to ensure that passengers are sufficiently protected against travel disruption such as denied boarding and delayed or cancelled flights. MEPs are planning to reject the EU Council’s push to weaken […]

WHEN: Friday 16 January at 11.00 WHERE: Anna Politkovskaya press room in Brussels and via Interactio Key topics next week include: Debate with Presidents Costa and von der Leyen on the results of the December EU summit and the need for a stronger and more sovereign Europe Debate on the EU’s response to President Trump’s […]

Where: European Parliament in Strasbourg, room WIC 200, and via webstreaming When: Monday 19 January 2026, 19:30 – 22:30 What: Joint meeting of the budget (BUDG), regional development (REGI) and agriculture and rural development (AGRI) committees MEPs are set to discuss proposals for combining regional, agricultural and other funds into national “envelopes” (so-called national and […]

The European Parliament stands firmly in support of multilateralism and the rules-based international order. Any attempt to undermine the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland, violates international law and the United Nations Charter. The security of the Arctic is a strategic priority for the European Union, and we are firmly committed to […]

On Monday, Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee voted to update EU air passenger rights rules, in force since 2004, to ensure that passengers are sufficiently protected against travel disruption such as denied boarding and delayed or cancelled flights. This vote represents the draft Parliament response to Council’s June 2025 position on air passenger rights. Standing […]

As of 2 January 2026, the CarPark application will replace the current IZIX app. You will be able to submit your reservations via the new platform, CarPark, from this date onwards, for parking starting 5 January 2026 in both Brussels and Strasbourg. For those who had previously registered with IZIX, your user data will be […]

Given the speed and complexity of challenges faced by the European Union, unity, urgency and ambition are key. That is also the spirit behind which President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, representing the Council of the EU, and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, signed the […]

The text, adopted by 438 votes in favour, 37 against with 48 abstentions, points to Belarus’s repeated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and balloon incursions into Lithuanian airspace, as well as cyberattacks, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, economic coercion, and instrumentalised migration. These actions, MEPs say, are deliberate, coordinated, hostile and also part of a broader Russia-led strategy […]

On Thursday, MEPs concluded an informal deal with the Council for the creation of an EU-wide list of safe countries of origin (SCO) as proposed by the Commission. Asylum requests by nationals of the listed countries – Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia – will be fast-tracked, with applicants having to prove that […]

President Metsola’s remarks at the European Council 18th December 2025, Brussels Thank you, António. The European Union is, by its very nature, a project for peace, and every genuine effort to spread peace should always – always – be welcomed. We’ve made real progress over the past weeks to end the war in Ukraine. This […]