European Parliament (News)

Parliament has approved new, distance-based road charging rules for lorries, which will help reduce CO2 emissions.

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On Thursday, Parliament gave the final green light for an update to EU rules on limiting workers’ exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

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Under the new rules adopted on Thursday, road charges for trucks will move from time-based to distance-based charging, making polluter-pays principles work better.
Committee on Transport and Tourism

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MEPs call for a more effective EU foreign and security policy and a stronger defence capability to respond to threats, in two reports adopted on Thursday.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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MEPs adopted recommendations to harmonise the status of non-profits throughout the EU and establish a statute for European association.
Committee on Legal Affairs

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Thursday, 17 February

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Following the Court of Justice ruling on the “rule of law conditionality” mechanism, MEPs demand that the Commission applies it and protects EU values.
Committee on Budgets
Committee on Budgetary Control

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On Wednesday, MEPs gave the green light to a €1.2 billion macro-financial loan to help Ukraine cover its external financing needs in 2022.
Committee on International Trade

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MEPs want to strengthen current rules and market surveillance to ensure that all toys sold on the EU market, including from non-EU countries and online, are safe.
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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Parliament adopted its final recommendations for a comprehensive and coordinated EU strategy to fight cancer.
Special Committee on Beating Cancer

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The Conference of Presidents (Parliament’s president and political groups’ leaders) adopted the following statement on the situation in Ukraine.

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In a debate on EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine, MEPs called for a united response and voiced support for Ukraine.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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Following the European Court of Justice’s decision to uphold the Rule of Law conditionality regulation, lead MEPs call on the Commission to act without delay.
Committee on Budgets
Committee on Budgetary Control

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The European Court of Justice upheld today the validity of the rule of law Conditionality Regulation, as it dismissed the requests by Hungary and Poland to annul it.

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MEPs set out recommendations on how to deploy offshore wind more quickly, in a report adopted on Wednesday.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

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Almost 300 Airbus employees in France who lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic will receive €3.7 million in EU aid.
Committee on Budgets

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Wednesday, 16 February

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In his address to MEPs, Colombian President Iván Duque welcomed EU support for the country’s peace process and for hosting displaced Venezuelans.

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The draft legislative initiative report sets out an array of measures to address problems linked to ‘citizenship and residence by investment schemes’.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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Tuesday, 15 February

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