On the Agenda

Council of the European Union

Spanish secretary of state for the EU, Diego López Garrido will address the European parliament's plenary session on the latest developments regarding Croatia's, Macedonia's and Turkey's enlargement progress.
European parliament, Strasbourg

Spanish Minister for Home Affairs Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba appears before the European parliament to discuss about the use of body scanners at airports and SWIFT data.
European parliament, Strasbourg

Spanish minister for territorial policy Manuel Chaves, appears before the Committee of the Regions plenary
Brussels, European parliament

European Commission

Androulla Vassiliou gives a speech and opens the Exhibition Mexico, Imagenes del Mexica no at the Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels)

European Parliament

Plenary agenda
08:30 - 23:59 Strasbourg

08.30 -11.50

2009 progress report on Croatia - Council and Commission statements, followed by debate

2009 progress report on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Council and Commission statements, followed by debate

2009 progress report on Turkey - Council and Commission statements, followed by debate

12.00 - 13.00

Votes

Recent earthquake in Haiti - Motions for resolutions

Situation in Iran - Motions for resolutions

Situation in Yemen - Motions for resolutions

Trafficking in human beings - Motions for resolutions

Outcome of the Copenhagen summit on climate change - Motions for resolutions

Texts on which debate is closed

15.00 - 18.00

Agreement between the EU and the USA on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program - debate on report by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (ALDE, NL)

Fight against terrorism - Joint debate

Body scanners - Council and Commission statements

Operation of intelligence services in the context of counter-terrorism strategies - Council and Commission statements

End of joint debate

Situation in Ukraine - Statement by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission, followed by debate

18.00 - 19.00
Question Time (Council)

21.00 - 24.00

Impact of the economic crisis on international trade - Oral question from the International Trade Committee to the Commission,  with debate

EU - South Korea free trade agreement - Oral question to the Commission, with debate
 

Press conferences

Today's press conferences
10:30 - 16:30 Strasbourg, LOW N-1.201

10:30 - Freedom of expression in Europe - Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA, FI)

11:00 - Implementation of the Lisbon Treaty - Martin Kastler (EPP, DE)

11:30 - Media freedom and freedom of speech - Oriol Junqueras Vies (Greens/EFA, ES) and François Alfonsi (Greens/EFA, FR)

13:00 (after the votes) - Report on equality between man and woman - Marc Tarabella (S&D, BE)

14:00 - Presentation of the MSF report on migrants centres in Italy - Rui Tavares (GUE/NGL, PT), Sonia Alfano (ALDE, IT), Sylvie Guillaume (S&D, FR) and Hélène Flautre (Greens/EFA, FR)

14:30 - Presidential elections and situation in Ukraine - Pawel Robert Kowal (ECR, PL), Chair of the EU-Ukraine delegation

16:00 - Social Europe - Elmar Brok (EPP, DE) and John Monks, ETUC, European Trade Union Confederation