14:30 Meeting with the president of ONG Mensajeroz de la Pax, Padre Angel
15:15 Meeting with Prime Minister of Serbia, Ms Ana Brnabić, PHS Protocol entry
16:00 Meeting with the President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, Mr Marcel Ciolacu
Debates
Debate
Debates
Jointly with the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), in meeting room JAN 4Q1:
BUDG-ECON Joint meeting in meeting room JAN 4Q1: see separate draft agenda (15.00-15.45)
Debates
(16.00-18.30)
Debates
With the digital revolution and in particular the ever growing online shopping sector, users of websites, online platforms and social media are often subject to targeted advertising that can influence their choice and constitute profiling. While advertising via traditional channels has to abide by strict rules, digital advertisement is vastly unregulated. This has led to e.g. children being exposed to unsuitable advertisement or to social media in particular being used to promote counterfeit products.
The aim of this event is to hear academia and stakeholders' views, both from the business side and from organisations dealing with consumer protection, on how consumers are informed and if they have a choice when it comes to online profiling (panel 1), as well as if consumers and especially vulnerable groups are protected from disguised digital advertising (panel 2).
Vote
10:00 Meeting with the President of the Norwegian Parliament, Ms Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen
11:00 Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia, H.E. Mr. Oliver Spasovski PHS Protocol entry
12:00 Meeting with the Mayor of London, Mr Sadiq Khan
12:30 Meeting with the leader of the Partit Socialista de Catalunya, Mr Miquel Iceta
14:00 Meeting with MFF Negoteam and European Council President, Mr Charles Michel
15:00 Meeting with the European Data Protection Supervisor, Mr Wiewiorowski
15:30 Meeting with parents of murdered Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak
16:00 Meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani
Norbert LINS (EPP, DE), Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, and Bernhard URL
Leopoldo LÓPEZ GIL (EPP, ES), Guillermo FARIÑAS HERNÁNDEZ, Alejandro GONZÁLEZ RAGA, Elena LARRINAGA DE LUIS, Bertha BUENO FUENTE, Yaxys CIRES DIB, and Aimel RÍOS WONG
Debates
Debates
Votes (12.00-13.00)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2020 (INI) - Vote on a draft report by Aurore LALUCQ (S&D, FR)
Debates
Exchange of views with the European Court of Auditors on Special Report No 18/2019 on EU greenhouse gas emissions: well reported, but better insight needed into future reductions
Votes
Vote (10.00-12.30)
Joint debate on EU SME policy (14.30-17.30)
Exchange of views with Bernhard Url, Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
The hearing will focus on EU support for Innovation in Agriculture: first, within the Common Agriculture Policy and the AGRI-EIP and second, in the EU Framework programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon Europe) and the future Mission “Soil health Food”.
Debates
(15.30-18.30)
Reports on artificial intelligence
Joint debate
European Semester Conference - Inter-parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the European Union -Co-organised by European Parliament and Croatian Parliament European Parliament, Brussels
18 -19 February 2020 - Hemicycle
The 2020 European Parliamentary Week takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, when MEPs and national parliamentarians from EU member states, as well as from candidate and observer countries, will discuss EU economic coordination and governance. EP President David Sassoli, ECOFIN Chair Zdravko Marić and Eurogroup President Mário Centeno will be among the speakers.
09:15 Meeting with the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr Mark Carney
09:30 Opening of the European Parliamentary week on EU economic governance from Parliamentary perspective (Hemicycle)
12:00 Meeting with the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Mr Guy Ryder
15:30 Meeting with the Mayor of Lampedusa, Mr Martello
18:30 Meeting with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, H.E. Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, PHS protocol entry
Sira REGO (GUE/NGL, ES), and José Luis ÁLVAREZ CASTELLANOS
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA (ECR, ES)
Debates
Vote
Debate (15.00 – 16.30)
Debates
Four experts from Portugal, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Belgium will debate with TRAN Members on the role of public transport in low-density areas. They will raise the specific characteristics and challenges faced by those areas and the resulting importance of services ensuring mobility. The hearing should provide an overview of good practices and case studies and would outline possible recommendations (logistics, pricing policies, etc.) for the future.
Presentation by the Commission, followed by workshop on "Just Transition Fund"
The invited experts will provide the information about the social and economic challenges linked to the energy transition and will help to assess the recent legislative proposal establishing the Just Transition Fund. The workshop is dedicated to this ongoing legislative report whose rapporteur is Mr Manolis Kefalogiannis (EPP).
Votes
The PECH committee organises on 19 February a hearing on measures to improve sustainable aquaculture in the EU. The Commission will present the state of the play of the Strategic Guidelines for the sustainable development of EU Aquaculture, followed by expert presentations on aquaculture production, and research and innovation matters.
Members will discuss with experts and representatives of European professional organisations on the use and the legal challanges of the use of A.I. in education, culture and audio-visual sectors.
Afternoon
Vote (possibly)
Debate
European Semester Conference - Inter-parliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the European Union -Co-organised by European Parliament and Croatian Parliament European Parliament, Brussels
18 -19 February 2020 - Hemicycle
The 2020 European Parliamentary Week takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, when MEPs and national parliamentarians from EU member states, as well as from candidate and observer countries, will discuss EU economic coordination and governance. EP President David Sassoli, ECOFIN Chair Zdravko Marić and Eurogroup President Mário Centeno will be among the speakers.
10:00 Meeting with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), Sir Suma Chakrabarti
15:00 EU Council
Debates
Debates (10.00 – 12.30)
With the participation of the Members of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Votes
Exchange of views with the Council of European Municipalities and Regions
Debate
Vote (12.15-12.30)
Hearing
10:00 Lectio magistralis - Master Gianni Riotta, Rome, Università Luiss, Sala delle Colonne
17:00 Speech in the event "Mediterraneo frontiera di pace", Bari, Teatro Petruzelli