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

When: Monday 11 December at 16.30

Where: Daphne Caruana Galizia Press room and via Interactio

Key topics next week include:

• Award of the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran;
• Debate and final vote on the Critical Raw Materials Act to boost the supply of strategic raw materials;
• Debate on the 14-15 December EU summit with the Spanish Presidency of the Council and the Commission;
• Debate with EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell on the situation in Gaza and the need to release all hostages, to achieve a humanitarian ceasefire and the prospect of a two-state solution;
• Debate with the President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez on the results of the Spanish Council Presidency;
• Debate and vote on Parliament’s position on the European Health Data Space;
• Breakfast directives - vote on Parliament’s position on revised rules for more accurate labelling of a number of agri-food products; and
• Debate and vote on MEPs’ proposals for the 6-9 June 2024 European elections including a process to elect the Commission President.

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