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MEPs achieved increases for the 2025 EU budget and secured funds for helping EU countries facing climate-related disasters.
Committee on Budgets

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Donald Trumps Wahlsieg sorgt für Spekulationen über die Auswirkungen auf Europa. Experten zufolge lag Ungarns Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán mit seiner Entscheidung, den Republikaner zu unterstützen, richtig. Sie zweifeln jedoch an seiner Fähigkeit, zwischen Brüssel und Washington zu vermitteln.

Les agriculteurs entendent s’opposer à la signature de l’accord UE-Mercosur, mais les manifestations sont aussi l’occasion pour les syndicats agricoles de se tester avant les élections professionnelles de janvier 2025 et alors que la toute puissante FNSEA pourrait être contestée.

La présidence hongroise du Conseil de l’UE propose la mise en place de systèmes de contrôle de la température dans le cadre de nouvelles règles sur le bien-être animal durant leur transport.

Ein EU-Bürger, der in einem anderen Mitgliedstaat lebt, darf in diesem Land politischen Parteien beitreten, entschied der Europäische Gerichtshof. Entsprechende Verbote in Polen und Tschechien verstoßen damit gegen EU-Recht.

M. Faye et M. Sonko devront relever d'importants défis pour lutter contre le chômage élevé et la faiblesse des finances publiques.

Am Dienstag hielt das Parlament eine außerordentliche Plenarsitzung mit dem ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj ab. Anlass war der 1000. Tag seit Beginn der russischen Invasion.
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten

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Die georgischen Parlamentswahlen im Oktober waren von Vorwürfen der Wahlmanipulation überschattet. Präsidentin Salome Surabischwili will nun vor dem Verfassungsgericht gegen das Ergebnis vorgehen.

On Tuesday 5 November 2024, the EUHealthGov network held its second event. This one-day knowledge exchange workshop brought together academics, policymakers and practitioners to discuss health law and governance in the context of growing uncertainty and intertwined crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has not unfolded in isolation from other overlapping, interacting, and mutually reinforcing crises: from climate change, the war in Ukraine and in Palestine, sharply rising socioeconomic inequities and the cost-of-living crisis, to an exacerbated distrust in liberal democratic institutions, Brexit, and the rise of the far-right and Euroscepticism reflected in the newly elected European Parliament. At the same time, EU law and policy appears increasingly characterised by a state of permanent crisis, which institutionalises governance architectures and tools associated with emergency responses.

The purpose of this workshop was to exchange ideas, experience, and work-in-progress around one question: how do contemporary uncertainties and crises affect health law, policy, and governance in the EU, the UK, and their evolving relationship?

First, Dr Tomislav Sokol (Member of the European Parliament), joined us online and shared an exhaustive and detailed overview of the health-related priorities currently on the agenda in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. The workshop was taking place a few months after the European Parliament elections and in the middle of the Commissioner hearings determining the confirmation of the new college of Commissioners for Ursula von der Leyen’s second term.

Examining these ongoing developments, Dr Louise Bengtsson (Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies), provided her analysis of the new von der Leyen mandate and the role of health policy in this new political landscape. She highlighted the increased overlap and fluidity between Commissioner portfolios, as well as the central focus on competitiveness and security. Amidst the growing role of the EU in health since COVID-19 highlighted by Bengtsson, Dr Mechthild Roos (Augsburg University) presented her current research, which uses the framework of input/throughout/output legitimacy as a lens to understand the European Parliament’s involvement during the crisis phase of the pandemic. She highlighted how the Parliament sought to balance its support for swift, necessary emergency responses on one hand, and the need to prevent the risk of institutionalising modes of governance that bypass ordinary legislative procedures on the other hand.

Diving into the legal and political ins and outs of specific health crises, Juan Collado Pérez-Llantada (University of Liverpool) shared his insights into the role EU law can play in regulating antimicrobial resistance through a ‘OneHealth’ approach. He outlined the existing legal framework. But he also emphasised the difficulty inherent to governing this multifaceted and multilevel crisis, visible notably in the lack of action on the environmental spread of AMR and the issues of competence limitation. Another pharmaceuticals-related crisis was discussed by Mark Dayan (Nuffield Trust). He focused on the medicine shortages in the UK and EU, highlighting the global drivers of the crisis in the nature of pharmaceutical markets and recent disruptions caused by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. He also discussed the UK, EU and Member State responses – including industrial policy approaches and stockpiling.

Finally, the presentations of our two last speakers zoomed out and broadened the geographical scope of analysis even further, putting the EU in a global context. Dr Asha Herten-Crabb (LSE) presented her research on the EU as an emerging global actor. Drawing on critical postcolonial theory, one of the key elements of her research puzzle is to understand how the EU perceives itself and constructs its relationship within the global health architecture in the context of growing decolonisation and anti-West rhetoric. Prof Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Bristol) focused the global health crisis represented by non-communicable diseases – and how measures to tackle these were being challenged within the World Trade Organisation’s Technical Barriers to Trade Committee. The crisis in the global trading system has increased interest in such committees amongst the trade officials involved, including within the EU, as they exist outside of the limelight.

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Auf der COP29 in Baku, Aserbaidschan, wird über internationalen Klimaschutz und Finanzierungshilfen gesprochen. Mit welchen Ergebnissen können wir rechnen?

L'ex-premier adjoint d'Anne Hidalgo vient de se declarer candidat a sa succession a la tete de la capitale. Il s'emancipe, au risque de braquer la maire de Paris.

On Tuesday, Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking 1000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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On Tuesday, Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking 1000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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On Tuesday, Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking 1000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Les États membres de l’UE auront dépensé un total de 326 milliards d’euros pour la défense en 2024, selon l’Agence européenne de défense. Un record qui représente 1,9 % du PIB du bloc.

Deux discours se sont opposés mardi au procès des viols de Mazan. D'un côté Gisèle Pelicot fustigeant une société "machiste et patriarcale", et de l'autre son ex-mari, Dominique Pelicot, qui a plaidé le "fantasme" de "soumettre une femme insoumise".

Le départ d'Aliou Cissé de son poste de sélectionneur du Sénégal, après presque dix ans de règne et de succès sans précédent, a été « très triste », a déclaré Augustin Senghor, l'un des principaux dirigeants du football du pays.