Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) - European Parliament

AMENDMENTS 39 - 217 - Draft opinion Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Salima Yenbou

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A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat, and to Hanoi in Vietnam from 20 to 24 February. The main goal of the mission is to contribute to furthering the EU-ASEAN Strategic Partnership, in particular cooperation between the parliaments, and to enhancing bilateral relations with EU’s major partners in the region.
Members will hold meetings with government and parliament officials in Indonesia and in Vietnam to discuss global and regional security issues as well as to follow-up on the EU-ASEAN Summit of 14 December 2022 and the own-initiative-report of June 2022 on the 'EU and the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific'. Members will also pursue dialogue with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Indonesia is chairing in 2023.
Location : Jakarta and Hanoi
Mission report
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A delegation of AFET Members travelled to Banjul in The Gambia and to Dakar in Senegal from 3 to 7 April. The main goal of the mission was to contribute to further strengthening the partnerships with these countries. Members met with government and parliament officials as well as with representative of civil society to discuss global and regional security issues.
The visit to Senegal presented a timely opportunity to closely engage with a historical partner and symbol of stability in West Africa. The visit to the Gambia enabled MEPs to better understand the opportunities and shortcomings the Gambia faces in its democratic consolidation and reinforce the EU support for important reforms, as a prerequisite for the future development of the country.
Location : Banjul (The Gambia) and Dakar (Senegal)
Mission report
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A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Washington D.C. and Wisconsin, US from 15 to 19 May. The main goal of the mission will be to establish and deepen the political dialogue with the US administration and meet counterparts in Congress, following the US mid-term elections.
Members will hold meetings with Government and Congress representatives in Washington D.C. The visit to Wisconsin, a swing and bellwether State, will provide AFET members with an in-depth look into grass-roots America from a transatlantic perspective. On top of meeting the political authorities and institutions of the State of Wisconsin, Members will also meet management and students form the Jean Monnet Programme on European and Global studies at the University of Madison - Wisconsin.
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As the first EU act specifically regulating the EU's CRM supply, the proposed initiative aims to address an area previously identified as one of the EU's strategic dependencies. Following a clear problem description, the IA presents three (partially overlapping) policy options and a thorough analysis of their possible impacts, with a clear focus on economic impacts. The identification of the preferred policy option appears justified. The predominantly qualitative assessment draws merely on desk research and stakeholder input. In this respect, the IA admits to having 'significant data gaps' and a 'limited' evidence base, owing in part to 'the lack of a supporting study'. With regard to stakeholder input, the IA does not explain why the public consultation was open for only 8 weeks (instead of the default 12). It is notable that the proposed regulation deviates somewhat in scope from the IA: it adds a further specific objective – namely to diversify CRM imports in order to reduce strategic dependencies – and provides for a few measures that were either not assessed at all in the IA, or which were outside the preferred policy option.
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REPORT on the 2022 Commission Report on Kosovo
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel

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REPORT on the 2022 Commission Report on Serbia
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Vladimír Bilčík

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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European defence industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Michael Gahler

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Members of the AFET Committee will meet on Wednesday 24 May 2003 - 9.00-12.30 and 14.00-18.00 and Thursday 25 May 2003 - 9.00-12.30 (ANTALL 4Q2)

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The meeting will be webstreamed.

AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2023
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
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On 27 April, Members of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Development will hold an exchange of views on the situation in Sudan. Following the dramatic developments in the past days, Members will debate with a representative from the European External Action Service the current security and humanitarian situation in the country.
The violence brought by the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has hit hard the Sudanese citizens. The EU calls for the respect of international humanitarian law, the cessation of all hostilities and reaching an agreement that would bring peace and stability.
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Length of video : 92'

Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
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Length of video : 152'

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Length of video : 125'

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On 26 April 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience of Ukraine: assessing the feasibility of a Marshall Plan-style facility and of enhanced coordination of defence related support. Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU has provided considerable support to Ukraine.
Whatever the final outcome of the war will be, Ukraine will undoubtedly come out of it economically devastated and the task of recovery and reconstruction appears therefore as a gigantic effort, which is hard to measure. Building on the conclusions of the Ukraine recovery Conference which took place on 4-5 July 2022 in Lugano, MEPs will debate with the invited experts the feasibility and the technical challenges of a Marshall Plan-style recovery plan.
Location : SPAAK 3C50
Draft programme
Biographies of speakers
Designing Ukraine's Recovery in the Spirit of the Marshall Plan - Mr Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
The Reconstruction Process in Ukraine - Mr Hugues Mingarelli
Publications - Ms Oleksandra Matviichuk
     28 hostages of the Kremlin
     The Peninsula of fear - Chronicle of occupation & violation of human rights in Crimea
     Eastern Ukraine - Civilians caught in the crossfire
     Surviving hell : Testimonies of Victims on Places of Illegal Detention in Donbas
     The Price of Freedom
Publications - Ms Iuliia Osmolovska
     Hard Work for 2023: Supporting Ukraine to Win the War against Russia
     Special Tribunal for the political leadership of Russia : Just Punishment for War Crimes
     Five Security Scenarios on Russian War in Ukraine for 2022-2023 - Implications and Policy Recommendations to Western Partners
EPRS Publications
     Russia's war on Ukraine: The EU's financing of military assistance to Ukraine
     Russia's war on Ukraine: Bilateral delivery of weapons and military aid to Ukraine
     European Peace Facility: Ukraine and beyond
     European Peace Facility: State of play as of 31 March 2023
     Video - The EU’s financing of military assistance to Ukraine
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On 26 April 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience of Ukraine: assessing the feasibility of a Marshall Plan-style facility and of enhanced coordination of defence related support. Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU has provided considerable support to Ukraine.
Whatever the final outcome of the war will be, Ukraine will undoubtedly come out of it economically devastated and the task of recovery and reconstruction appears therefore as a gigantic effort, which is hard to measure. Building on the conclusions of the Ukraine recovery Conference which took place on 4-5 July 2022 in Lugano, MEPs will debate with the invited experts the feasibility and the technical challenges of a Marshall Plan-style recovery plan.
Draft Programme
Presentation - Mr Kirkegaard - Designing Ukraine - 2019s Recovery in the Spirit of the Marshall Plan
Presentation - Mr Mingarelli - The reconstruction process in Ukraine
Presentations - Ms Matviichuk
     Hostages
     Peninsula Fear
     Civilians caught in the crossfire
     Report Koalition - Surviving hell
     Ukrainia NGOs - Euro Maidan
Presentations - Ms Osmolovska
     Hard work for 2023
     Special Tribunal for the political leadership of Russia
     Ukraine scenarios report
Biographies
EPRS Publications
     Russia's war on Ukraine: The EU's financing of military assistance to Ukraine
     Russia's war on Ukraine: Bilateral delivery of weapons and military aid to Ukraine
     European Peace Facility: Ukraine and beyond
     European Peace Facility: State of play as of 31 March 2023
     Video - The EU’s financing of military assistance to Ukraine
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MEPs denounce Uganda’s anti-LGBTIQ Bill and call for the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality and transgender identity.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the respect for human rights in Russia, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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