Highlights
19 May – 23 May: Committees and Political Groups
In the week of 19 May, Members' work is split between meetings in Parliamentary Committees and political groups.
During this week, the Subcommittee on Human Rights will travel to Geneva for meetings with the UNHR. The Committee on Development will have an exchange of views on needs-based humanitarian funding. The ECON Committee will hold exchanges with the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board and Eurostat. BUDG Members will discuss the role of the EU budget in helping to promote investment in the EU economy. Committees on Employment and Social Affairs and on Women's Rights and Gender Equality will jointly debate with EVP Roxana Mînzatu on "Advancing Towards a Care Society: Addressing the Gender Care Gap. European Democracy Shield Committee will hold a hearing on "Interference using online platforms, the role of algorithmic manipulation, and responsibility and effects of online platforms on democracy." Follow the links below to discover this week's highlights.
- Human Rights: Delegation Mission to Geneva
- Development: Continued needs-based humanitarian funding
- Development: The future of International Development Cooperation
- Development: Impacts of cuts in development aid on health programmes
- Budgets: Opinion on Draghi Report and the Capital Markets Union
- Economic and Monetary Affairs: Exchange of views with Mariana Kotzeva, Director-General of Eurostat
- Economic and Monetary Affairs: Exchange of views with Alfred Camilleri, Chair of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB)
- Economic and Monetary Affairs: Hearing with the European Securities and Markets Authority
- EMPL-FEMM: Exchange of views with Commission EVP Roxana Mînzatu on gender care gap
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: Sexual Violence in Conflict
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: Hearing on Combatting Menstrual Poverty and Improving Women’s Rights on Menstrual health
- EUDS-CULT: Hearing on The State of Media in the EU and Media Resilience
- European Democracy Shield: Hearing on "Interference using online platforms, the role of algorithmic manipulation, and responsibility and effects of online platforms on democracy"