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Lord Plumb died back in April 2022. This roundtable, first of a new EPRS series, will devote to him as a British Conservative MEP and President of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989, bringing together an eminent historian, a former MEP and a former Secretary-General of the European Parliament who will recollect their working experiences with former President Plumb. The event will be open by a video-message from current EP President, Roberta Metsola.

On Thursday, 08 December 2022, the FEMM Committee will hold an Inter-parliamentary Committee Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming.

You are invited to come in the EP new Info Hub - left to the European Parliament' main entrance (Esplanade Solidarność in Brussels) - to have a conversation with Marcin Szczepanski and Guillaume Ragonnaud, policy experts in the European Parliament Research Service, to learn more on what is the EU doing on this subject.

Please just drop in! No registration is required.

The roundtable will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on science advice in policy-making and discuss lessons learnt from COVID-19 for science advice in policy-making under stress. In this dimension, speakers will focus on essential questions of the use of science advice for complex political decision preparation and decision-making under the conditions of uncertainty.

On 8 December, IMCO will hold a public hearing to follow up on Parliament’s motion for a resolution on the right to repair, adopted in April 2022. The aim of the hearing is to feed into the discussion related to the upcoming Commission proposal on the right to repair and more specifically, to look at how consumer rights and guarantees can be strengthened.

On Thursday, 08 December 2022, the FEMM Committee will hold a workshop on “Menstrual poverty” organised by the Policy Department on Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs.

Full title: 2022 – the year that shook the world: What think tanks are thinking

This roundtable is the EPRS annual flagship on key takeaways from 2022. Distinguished Think Tankers will discuss issues such as Russia's war on Ukraine, geopolitical shifts, energy crisis, macroeconomic situation, climate and other topics that made 2022 'the year that shook the world'. 

On 09 January 2023, from 17:00 to 18:30, the FISC Subcommittee will host a public hearing on "Potential Distortions of the Single Market due to Personal Income Tax: challenges for SMEs and risks of harmful tax competition". The transformation of the way how we work through digitalization and globalization has been accelerated during the COVID19 pandemic and has led to a significant increase of remote working. These developments have also created new challenges in the area taxation.