Responding to the outbreak of COVID-19, European Parliament political and group leaders decided to modify the EP calendar of activities. All activities planned during the week 16-20 March 2020 will be postponed or cancelled. The date of the next SEDE meeting will be announced as soon as possible.
Recent press releases:
- MEPs exchange views with UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations - 21 November 2019
- Subcommittee for Security and Defence visit to the European Defence Agency - 18 November 2019
- Militarisation of space and race for resources: What can EU do about it? - 12 November 2019
- Children of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq: MEPs to assess the situation - 6 November 2019
- AFET/DROI/SEDE meet with UN Secretary General in New York and hold consultations with the US Congress in Washington, DC - 1st November 2019
- Parliament delegation to visit the United Nations General Assembly and US Congress - 25 October 2019
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In the context of the exponential growth of the epidemic, the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
Today, 10 March, the Conference of Presidents adopted a revised calendar of meetings and the changes concern the following:
· Next week (week 12) is a "white week" without activities (instead of a committee week),
· Committee meetings will resume on weeks 13 and 14 together with Political Groups and Plenary,
· The April I plenary session will be held in Brussels from 1-2 April (instead of Strasbourg, 30 March - 2 April),
· Week 15 is now a "white week" without activities (instead of a "turquoise" week).
Following that decision the AFET Committee meeting of 16 and 17 March is cancelled.