Press release - Press briefing on this week’s plenary session

When: Monday 20 November at 16.30

Where: Daphne Caruana Galizia Press room and via Interactio

Key topics this week include:

• Key debate on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East

• Debate and vote on new rules to make packaging easier to reuse and recycle and to reduce unnecessary packaging and waste

• New measures to strengthen the right to repair and promote sustainable consumption: debate and vote
• Debate and vote on rules to cut the use of chemical pesticides
• New CO2 emissions reduction targets for trucks and buses: debate and vote

• Debate and vote on boosting Europe's Net-Zero technology production

• Vote on MEPs’ proposals for the June 2024 EP elections with regard to the lead candidate process and increasing voter turnout
• Reform of the EU Treaties to enhance the EU’s capacity to act and strengthen the voice of citizens: debate and vote

Interpretation of the press briefing will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

Journalists wishing to actively participate and ask questions, please connect via Interactio by using this: https://ep.interactio.eu/66e2-hy1p-1w4u

You can follow it live from 16.30 on Monday in Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Galizia press room or via Parliament’s webstreaming and EbS+.

Information for the media - Use Interactio to ask questions

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Contacts:

• Jaume DUCH GUILLOT

  EP Spokesperson and Director General for Communication

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 43000 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 74705 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 496 59 94 76
  • E-mail: jaume.duch@europarl.europa.eu

• Delphine COLARD

  Head of Spokesperson’s Unit and Deputy Spokesperson

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 43383 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 64123 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 498 98 44 85
  • E-mail: delphine.colard@europarl.europa.eu

• Neil CORLETT

  Head of the Press Unit

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 42077 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 74167 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 470 89 16 63
  • E-mail: neil.corlett@europarl.europa.eu