Members of European Parliament will meet in Strasbourg, for their first in person plenary session after more than a year in France, on 7-10 June. Previous attempt to bring back EU lawmakers to the French city in September 2020 was cancelled a week before as COVID-19 cases were rising in France.

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two fellow pro-independence allies on Wednesday regained provisional political immunity as members of the European Parliament, an EU court ruled.

Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) MEPs urged in a new report on EU-NATO cooperation that the transatlantic community can successfully manage its security challenges only by further deepening cooperation and taking partnership to a new level.

Supporting economic recovery from the crisis and building a greater resilience for fighting future crises of a similar nature in particular are among the priorities of the upcoming Slovenian Presidency of the Council.

The Regional Development Committee adopted its position on the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR), thus prepare to start negotiations with the Council on the final form of the instrument.

The European Parliament has overwhelmingly voted to freeze the ratification of the EU-China investment deal due to the sanctions that Beijing has imposed on five members of the hemicycle.

In a report adopted during this week’s plenary session in Brussels, the EU Parliament aims to ensure that the EU’s cooperation with third countries on migration respects and promotes the human rights of migrants and refugees.

EU lawmakers didn’t reach consensus over waiver for Covid-19 vaccine patents for safeguarding a global access to jabs, during their plenary debate on Wednesday.

The third round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Covid-19 certificate regulation, which ended in the early hours of Wednesday, left some open questions, but the desire of the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission is for a deal to be reached by the end of this week. The talks will continue on Thursday.

Following the recent upsurge in violence between Israel and Palestine, MEPs stress the need for an immediate ceasefire to avoid further civilian casualties. In a plenary debate with Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva on Tuesday afternoon, MEPs expressed their extreme concern over the renewed escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine and called for an immediate end to the fighting.