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Title: State of the Union debate 2020
Runtime: 4:22:38
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Follow live the State of the Union debate 2020 from Brussels: Members discuss with European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen about the State of the European Union.

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Coming up in Brussels: State of the EU, the green transition, civil protection and more

Title: Coming up in Brussels: State of the EU, the green transition, civil protection and more
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: MEPs will debate Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s first State of the EU address and propose changes to the EU’s civil protection mechanism. They will also repeat calls to increase the EU’s revenues, without burdening the taxpayer. All that and more coming up in Brussels.

Announcer: 2020 State of the European Union Debate

Title: Announcer: 2020 State of the European Union Debate
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: After a year at the head of the European Commission, president von der Leyen has begun implementing the new initiatives in her programme. Members of Parliament will scrutinise the past twelve months and analyse what the EU’s future will look like - the Covid-19 recovery, financing the next seven years, protecting the climate and repositioning the EU on the world map are on the menu.

Parliament cannot accept the EU long-term budget deal as it stands

Title: Parliament cannot accept the EU long-term budget deal as it stands
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: EU leaders may have reached an agreement on the 2021-2027 budget and the Covid-19 recovery package but Parliament says it cannot accept the deal as it stands. Cuts to programmes such as Erasmus+, Horizon Europe and the Green Deal are deemed unacceptable.

Next 6 months in Parliament: the road to recovery

Title: Next 6 months in Parliament: the road to recovery
Runtime: 2:58
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: With the Covid-19 recovery as a common thread for the next semester, Parliament will consider key legislation on agriculture, transport and migration. Ensuring the economic recovery while safeguarding jobs and the environment is a priority. All this and more, coming up in the next six months in the European Parliament.

Title: Combatting medicine shortages in the EU
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted an ongoing problem: shortages of certain medicines in the EU. The European Parliament is proposing a series of measures to end this increasing but largely silent problem.

Parliament pushes for new EU revenue sources

Title: Parliament pushes for new EU revenue sources
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: The European Parliament wants an ambitious EU budget that funds the recovery and helps build a green Europe without burdening taxpayers or future generations. But how? With additional revenue streams called ‘own resources’.

Title: Parliament’s 2020 so far…
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Europe has faced major challenges over the past six months but is looking forward and investing in long-term solutions. To tackle the fallout of Covid-19, the EU released unprecedented funds to support people, jobs and research. To face the climate emergency, Parliament continued its fight for greener politics and more ambitious goals.

Covid-19: 10 things the EU is doing to support recovery

Title: Covid-19: 10 things the EU is doing to support recovery
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the EU has been at the forefront of coordinating measures, fighting both the health crisis and its economic impact. Here are 10 things the EU is doing to get Europe back on its feet.

Title: Updating road transport rules
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: The EU is overhauling the rules for road transporters. The changes mean better working conditions for drivers, stricter rules to fight illegal practices and smart technologies to enforce the rules. The result will be a safer and fairer industry.

Title: Diversified and secure European energy
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: European energy supplies should be secure, diverse but also green. This is why Parliament wants to update trans-European energy network funding guidelines, to fit EU climate goals, in line with the green deal, while ensuring no region is left out.

Coming up in Brussels: Recovery and the EU budget, road transport rules and public health

Title: Coming up in Brussels: Recovery and the EU budget, road transport rules and public health
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: July's plenary session, MEPs will debate the recovery and the long-term budget. They will vote on fairer rules for road hauliers and call for an integrated EU public health strategy. All that and more, coming up in Brussels.

Better protection for European consumers

Title: Better protection for European consumers
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: European consumers who have suffered the same infringement of their rights, will soon be able to sue a company as a group, irrespective of where they live. Virtually impossible now, this new legislation will make it easier to protect consumers, while avoiding abusive lawsuits.

Title: Parliament and the European Green Deal
Runtime: 2:41
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Climate change is already affecting Europeans today. Europe is acting now with the Green Deal and Parliament is playing a central role in shaping the sustainable economy of tomorrow.

Title: Protecting cross-border workers
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Being a cross-border, seasonal or frontier worker means navigating between different national rules. During the Covid-19 border closures, travelling from the country they live in to the one they work in became complicated or even impossible. Parliament wants to ensure their rights are protected, also after the pandemic.

€2 trillion to rebuild the economy after Covid-19

Title: €2 trillion to rebuild the economy after Covid-19
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: Parliament has set out its position on an ambitious coronavirus recovery plan to reboot the EU economy. MEPs are calling for citizens, the environment and digitalisation to be at the heart of the next long-term budget and the economic recovery.

Coming up in Brussels: The future of Europe, Covid-19 recovery and freedom of movement

Title: Coming up in Brussels: The future of Europe, Covid-19 recovery and freedom of movement
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 6 years ago
Description: MEPs will debate coronavirus and the next EU budget, call for the return to freedom of movement and say that the Conference on the Future of Europe should be organised as soon as possible. All that and more, coming up in Brussels.

Title: Europe prepares for summer
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Tourism and transport have suffered from months of lockdown but now some travellers are hoping to be able to take a summer break. Parliament has consistently called on the Commission to support the tourism sector during the Covid-19 crisis, through funding, a targeted roadmap and EU coordination.

Title: Safe and sustainable European food
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 'Farm to Fork' is a new strategy to protect biodiversity and reduce pesticides and food waste, making Europe's food supply chain more sustainable. Parliament wants to make sure those ambitious goals are met, while supporting European farmers.

Coming up in Brussels: EU long-term budget, Covid-19 tracing apps and more

Title: Coming up in Brussels: EU long-term budget, Covid-19 tracing apps and more
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: During the plenary session, MEPs will outline their expectations for the EU's long-term budget and the recovery plan to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. They will also debate the compatibility of Covid-19 tracing apps with EU data protection laws. Protecting the environment will be on the agenda, with a vote on new tyre labelling and EU-wide standards for water reuse.

Europe Day: 70 years of European solidarity

Title: Europe Day: 70 years of European solidarity
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: It’s been 70 years since Robert Schuman made his declaration uniting European countries. His goal was to bring lasting peace and solidarity between member states and never return to the horrors of WWII. The current health crisis brings Europeans to make the same choice of solidarity and neighbourly support.

Title: Tourism in quarantine
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Empty beaches, cancelled flights, silent streets – Europe’s tourism industry has been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. The European Parliament wants to see ambitious support for the continent’s tourism sector.

Data protection: tracking coronavirus, not you

Title: Data protection: tracking coronavirus, not you
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: To track the evolution and spread of Covid-19 national governments are exploring the potential of coronavirus tracking apps. Members of Parliament's civil liberties committee support EU efforts to ensure the introduction of such apps does not breach fundamental European rights such as data protection and privacy.

10 things the EU is doing to fight coronavirus

Title: 10 things the EU is doing to fight coronavirus
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The European Union is continuing to play a central role in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. While the short-term priority is to fight the spread of the virus and support member states, the long-term goal is to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the crisis. Here are 10 steps the EU has taken, along with the Parliament, to fight Covid-19.

Title: Covid-19 and Erasmus: Students' stories
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 165,000 Erasmus exchange students and 5,000 Solidarity Corps volunteers have seen their projects put on hold by the Covid-19 health restrictions. Four students tell their stories. MEPs are calling for flexible rules to protect their status and to help them get back home.

MEPs call for support for artists affected by the pandemic

Title: MEPs call for support for artists affected by the pandemic
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Artists, musicians and people in creative professions are keeping us entertained during lockdown. MEPs are urging the EU to set up specific financial aid to support them and keep the cultural sector afloat during the crisis.

EU Covid19 aid on its way to third countries

Title: EU Covid19 aid on its way to third countries
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: While the world is fighting Covid19, the EU is starting aid packages for the most vulnerable countries to prevent a deeper health and social crisis. A fund of €20 billion will to help partner countries respond to the crisis, support health, water and sanitation systems and back small and medium enterprises.

Title: Taking care of our most vulnerable
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The poorest and most vulnerable have been hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis. By supporting the improved Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived support system, Parliament is making sure no-one is left behind.

Title: MEPs on the front line against Covid19
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MEPs with a medical background are returning to their professions in hospitals and health centres, using their skills to help treat coronavirus patients and support fellow medics.

How European democracy works in times of pandemic

Title: How European democracy works in times of pandemic
Runtime: 2:36
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: No virus can stop democracy and the coronavirus crisis requires a European response. Despite social-distancing measures introduced to fight the Covid19 pandemic, the European Parliament is still busy: debating, voting and preparing legislative work.

Coming up in Brussels – EU coronavirus response, support for healthcare and more

Title: Coming up in Brussels – EU coronavirus response, support for healthcare and more
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: For the second time since the outbreak of Covid19, the European Parliament is convening for a Brussels session where MEPs can participate remotely. The agenda is dedicated to the fight against coronavirus: unprecedented support for national healthcare systems and help for the most disadvantaged.

Title: Tackling Disinformation on Covid19
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The EU has seen a surge of disinformation surrounding the Covid19 pandemic. Fake news, both online and offline, is shared every day, blurring the lines between fact and fiction amid the coronavirus crisis.

Title: Covid19: Solidarity among EU neighbours
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Since the outbreak of the Covid19 pandemic, EU nations have shown an unprecedented display of solidarity, helping each other with everything from face masks to flights. Here are some of the ways in which member states are helping their neighbours.

Europeans show solidarity against Covid19

Title: Europeans show solidarity against Covid19
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: With millions of Europeans at home, people are finding new and inspiring ways to support each other.

Title: EU funding for COVID-19 research
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The EU is fighting back. It is supporting research into a coronavirus vaccine as well as ways to slow the pandemic and develop better diagnostics. This is why the EU is allocating ambitious funding to research and to further develop health emergency preparedness.

Title: EU steps up Coronavirus response
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: With Europe now at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU and the European Parliament have vowed to do whatever it takes to stop the spread of the virus, ensure necessary equipment can be available and protect our economy.

Coming up in Brussels – Long-term budget, Climate Law and Coronavirus

Title: Coming up in Brussels – Long-term budget, Climate Law and Coronavirus
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Parliament will discuss the failure of EU leaders to agree a position on the bloc's long-term budget. It will also hear the Commission's proposed climate change law and look at how the EU is responding to the coronavirus outbreak. Following the latest Covid-19 advice from Parliament's medical service, President David Sassoli decided that the session would exceptionally be held in Brussels instead of Strasbourg.

Parliament vows to find fair solutions to climate crisis

Title: Parliament vows to find fair solutions to climate crisis
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The European Parliament has started examining the first ever European climate law. This cornerstone of the European Green Deal aims to enshrine into law the EU’s target of becoming climate neutral by 2050.

Title: Reborn from the ashes
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Restaurant owner Lealdina Fernandes, 73, survived the terrible wildfire that devastated central Portugal in 2017. Her life’s work, her café-restaurant, was badly damaged. She is now rebuilding it thanks to EU emergency funds deployed to help communities and the local economy recover from the fire.

Title: Keeping the family together on the farm
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: EU funds helped Miodrag Rusimovici and his son modernise the family farm in rural Romania. With those funds, they built greenhouses and installed an irrigation system, which made their vegetable production viable all year long.

🔴 LIVE: Climate activist Greta Thunberg at the European Parliament

Title: 🔴 LIVE: Climate activist Greta Thunberg at the European Parliament
Runtime: 1:21:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Climate activist Greta Thunberg is at the Parliament to discuss the EU's climate laws and targets with members of
the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

The meeting takes place on 4 March 2020, after the adoption of the Commission’s proposal on the EU climate law, which will aim to make Europe the first carbon neutral continent by 2050.

Virtual health checks: saving real lives

Title: Virtual health checks: saving real lives
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Ann-Marie Larsson, 85, lives in a remote area in Northern Sweden. There are no doctors there, but she can connect with them thanks to a virtual care centre. These virtual checks saved her life after she discovered she was suffering from a cancer.

Title: The first Erasmus couple
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Pascal, from France, spent a year in Ireland in the 1980s as part of one of the first ever Erasmus student exchanges. This opportunity shaped his life: he experienced another country and culture, furthered his studies, and even met his future wife!

From decline to success: how a family business was saved

Title: From decline to success: how a family business was saved
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Tuffery family's jeans' workshop was feeling the impact of globalisation and competition from overseas. With the help of European funds, the family business was saved and now flourishes while staying rooted in their native Cévennes, in the south of France.

We may have 24 official languages but our 💙 speaks 🇪🇺

Title: We may have 24 official languages but our 💙 speaks 🇪🇺
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Today is International Mother Language Day!

Did you know there are 24 official EU languages? And that as every language can be translated into 23 others, at the Parliament there are no less than 552 possible language combinations! You can read about our work in your country's official language here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en

What is the EU long-term budget and how does it affect me?

Title: What is the EU long-term budget and how does it affect me?
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 2021 will see the start of a new long-term EU budget. The budget allows the EU to invest in its citizens and the future. But who decides on the size of the budget? What does the EU spend its budget on and how is the EU budget funded?

EU long-term budget: discussing Europe’s future

Title: EU long-term budget: discussing Europe’s future
Runtime: 2:22
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In a crucial debate in Strasbourg ahead of a special European summit on the next EU’s long-term budget for 2021-2027, MEPs underlined that Parliament will only give its consent to a budget that can meet the European Union’s ambitions.

Plenary highlights: Long-term EU budget, trade with Vietnam and FGM

Title: Plenary highlights: Long-term EU budget, trade with Vietnam and FGM
Runtime: 1:18
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Parliament discussed the EU’s long-term budget, approved a trade deal with Vietnam and debated the Eurozone's future economic policies with new ECB chief Christine Lagarde. MEPs also pushed for more action on tackling female genital mutilation and the illegal pet trade.

Coming up in Strasbourg: EU-Vietnam deal, Brexit, AI and more

Title: Coming up in Strasbourg: EU-Vietnam deal, Brexit, AI and more
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MEPs will vote on the future EU-Vietnam trade deal. Parliament also looks at the talks on future relations between the EU and the UK, how to protect consumers with the rise of Artificial Intelligence, proposed changes to EU accession rules and the gender equality strategy.

Title: World Cancer Day
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 4 February is World Cancer Day, an opportunity to focus on the causes, treatment and prevention of one of the EU’s top health priorities.

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