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Predseda Európskeho parlamentu Martin Schulz na úvod plenárneho zasadnutia v Bruseli oznámil rezignáciu poslankyne Diany Wallis (ALDE, UK) a poslanca Proinsiasa De Rossa (S&D, IE) a poďakoval im za ich prácu.
The priorities of Denmark's Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers are being presented to European Parliament committees by Danish ministers at meetings on 23-26 January. This compilation will be updated daily during this week.
After the election of a President, Vice-Presidents and Questors of the European Parliament in Strasbourg last week, parliamentary committees convened this week in Brussels to elect chairpersons and their deputies for next two and a half years until the end of the legislature.
A pan-European constituency with transnational lists for European Parliament elections is among the proposals put forward by the Constitutional Affairs Committee on Thursday. MEPs called on the Council and the Commission to join in negotiations to reform the EU electoral system so as to boost voter turnouts.
The draft international agreement on enhanced economic governance lacks measures to promote growth and alone would not solve the crisis, the three EP representatives on the drafting group said on Thursday. The MEPs were nonetheless "cautiously optimistic" that some of their demands would be included in the final version of the text.
V stredu, 18. januára, predstavila dánska premiérka Helle Thorning-Schmidt europoslancom program svojej krajiny pre 6-mesačné predsedníctvo Rady EÚ. Väčšina poslancov jej vyjadrila svoju podporu a vyzvala ju na pevný postoj pri riešení finančnej krízy.
Európsky parlament si zvolil všetkých 14 podpredsedov v treťom kole. Na zvolenie každého z nich bola potrebná jednoduchá väčšina platných odovzdaných hlasov. Päť nových kvestorov zvolili poslanci v stredu popoludní.
Today's election of Martin Schulz (S&D, DE) as President of the European Parliament resulted in the final change to the composition of the Conference of Presidents, the body that brings together Parliament's president and political group leaders. Hannes Swoboda (S&D, AT) replaces Mr Schulz as chair of the Socialists and Democrats Group today, following the election or re-election of the other group leaders.
Europoslanci zvolili Martina Schulza za nového predsedu Európskeho parlamentu. Za jeho zvolenie sa vyslovilo 387 zo 670 hlasujúcich europoslancov. Tento 56-ročný nemecký sociálny demokrat povedie Európsky parlament nasledujúcich dva a pol roka, t.j. do nasledujúceho legislatívneho obdobia, začínajúceho v júli 2014.