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À l’ouverture de la session, la Présidente Metsola a fait le point sur sa visite en Ukraine avant de faire observer une minute de silence en mémoire des victimes de la guerre.

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Monday, 4 April

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The European Parliament’s spokesperson will hold a last-minute briefing on the 4-7 April plenary session today at 16.30.

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Les 8 et 9 avril, la session plénière de la Conférence sur l’avenir de l’Europe débattra des propositions concrètes issues des groupes de travail.

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Les eurodéputés et les parlementaires d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique ont débattu des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine, de la sécurité alimentaire, de la pandémie et du climat.
Commission du développement

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EP President Roberta Metsola, together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, met this morning with Ukrainians having fled the war at the Otwock school in the region of Warsaw.

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Une délégation du Parlement européen, qui s’est rendue en Moldavie dans le contexte de l’aggravation de la situation sécuritaire en Europe, a conclu sa visite samedi.
Commission des affaires étrangères
Sous-commission "sécurité et défense"

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Jointly with the Committee on International Trade, the Subcommittee on Human Rights will hold a public hearing on human rights and trade nexus in the context of non-self-governing and occupied territories, on Wednesday 16 March. The debate will assess the implementation of international human rights law in non-self-governing and occupied territories, including how trade policy can support the promotion of human rights considering the specific situation of these territories.
Location : ANTALL 6Q2
Draft agenda and meeting documents
Video of the meting
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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President of the European Parliament has established a number of measures to contain the spread of the virus and to safeguard Parliament's core activities. The current precautionary measures do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are maintained to ensure the smooth running of the institution's legislative, budgetary, and scrutiny functions.
The next meetings of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on:- Thursday 21 April 2022 from 13.45 - 16.15 in meeting room: SPAAK 3C50: Joint JURI/DROI Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on Corporate responsibility for serious human rights abuses in third countries

EP Calendar 2022
DROI Meetings 2022
Urgency Resolutions on human rights
Book by HR/VP Josep Borrell Fontelles on "European foreign policy in times of COVID-19"
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There is a general perception in Western countries that the role of values as a foreign policy driver is currently on the decline. This study in the series ‘global trends in external policies’ seeks to contribute to the debate by investigating what is meant by ‘values’, whether their importance is on the wane and, if so, how this manifests itself, and how the European Union (EU) can respond to these trends. The broad concept of values has therefore been split into five categories. Socio-cultural values are implicit drivers of foreign policy. In the case of the EU, these are characterised by diversity. ‘Political values’ is used as a term to describe the fundamental principles of political and public action, defining the relationship between the state and its citizens. For the EU, these are often referred to as the triad of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Economic values characterise the nature of the prevailing economic system in a country. The EU advocates a social market economy. The term ‘Earth values’ refers to the inclusion of environmental considerations in external policies. The EU has become a leader in promoting sustainability. Resulting from the preceding four are ‘international order values’, which characterise the overall international outlook of actors. The EU’s international order value is ‘principled pragmatism’. This study compares the EU’s values with those of four reference countries: the US, Turkey, Russia and China. The US in the West comes closest to many of the EU’s values, but does not overlap completely. Turkey and Russia are in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood and increasingly disagree with the EU on values. Chinese values overlap least with the EU’s values. The study confirms a decline in the influence of the political values preferred by the EU. This decline appears to correspond to a clear West-East spectrum. However, the study also notes an opposite trend of increasing influence of Earth values. For these, a Eurocentric spectrum appears more adequate. For economic values, the definition of trends depends on benchmarks and methodology. The international order notion of ‘principled pragmatism’ has been extended to ‘EU strategic autonomy’. Values are often considered as part of EU strategic autonomy and some policies, such as EU accession or trade policy, incorporate them. A values-based approach to external policies should differentiate according to the partner country and the value category concerned. Whereas cooperation on political values does not appear to be fruitful with certain countries, continued efforts on economic or Earth values may still be possible. The study explores what such a differentiated approach could mean for the four reference countries in the near future. Such an approach should also take into account the differing perceptions of partner countries. Although positive avenues of cooperation on, for example, Earth values are still possible, geopolitical tensions, partly rooted in differing values, are overshadowing this path.
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The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events.
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Durée de la vidéo : 117'

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Durée de la vidéo : 63'

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Durée de la vidéo : 46'

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Durée de la vidéo : 72'

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The situation of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico
Myanmar, one year after the coup
Destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh
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Durée de la vidéo : 145'

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