Committee meetings and political groups week
Brussels

A delegation of MEPs will be in Cancún for the 2010 UN climate change conference aiming to step up international action to tackle climate change (Monday - Saturday).

Monday Ebs 14.00  CET: Stockshots EMAS. Monday Ebs+ 10.00 CET Stockshots on climate change.

Monday Ebs 14.15 CET: Infoclip Climate change.

Wednesday Ebs 1 - 11.30 CET: Statements by EP Delegation to COP16. Cancun.

Wednesday Ebs 2 14.30 CET: Statements by EP Delegation to COP16. Cancun.

Thursday Ebs 1 - 11.30 CET.

Friday Ebs 1 - 11.30 CET and Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET

Saturday Ebs 1 - 11.30 CET & Ebs 2 - 14.30 CET

Contacts in Cancun: Teresa Conesa Alcázar + 32 498.98.34.27 Christopher Coakley +32 498 98 33 26      

Reminder: all our Ebs summaries on COP16 will be available on our new website and you can download them in professional formats: http://audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu


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We can help you coordinate at a distance interviews and declarations from the members of the delegation of MEPs in Cancún. The footage will be then put on your private workspace on the ftp server of the new website. Do not hesitate to contact us!

Talks will continue between MEPs and the Council to resolve the impasse over next year's EU budget. EP President Jerzy Buzek will lead the Parliament delegation. The Budgets Committee will meet to discuss the outcome of these talks (Monday, Wednesday).

Parliament's scientific assessment panel STOA holds its annual lecture, with three speakers: Paul Crutzen and George Oláh, both winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place.

Tuesday Ebs + LIVE 10.00 - 10.30. Press conference by Silvana KOCH-MERIN (ALDE, DE) Vice-President of E.P., Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT), chair of STOA, Malcolm HARBOUR (ECR, UK) Internal Market Committee chair, Shai AGASSI, CEO of 'Better Place' and Prof Dr Paul CRUTZEN, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, 1995 Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry

Jerzy Buzek and Commissioner Sim Kallas will be in London to open the Europe House, the new joint offices of the European Parliament and Commission. On Tuesday, the President will meet leading political figures, including Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Ebs 3 -17.30 CET, opposition leader Ed Miliband, the speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and Tony Blair, former Prime Minister and now Representative of the Middle East Quartet (Monday-Tuesday).

Tuesday Ebs 1 - 11.30 CET Speech at the London School of Economics.

EP President Jerzy Buzek will pay an official visit to Moldova.

Friday Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET

The Foreign Affairs committee organizes a meeting on the EU's approach towards Iran.

Thursday Ebs 1 -11.30 CET

Parliament's political groups will devote most of the week to preparations for the 13-16 December plenary session in Strasbourg.  The agenda currently includes legislation to enable citizens to request EU laws through the EU "citizen's initiative" plan, to tackle human trafficking, to give cross-border protection to victims of violence, and to give foreign workers equal rights with national workers on pay, working conditions and social security.



Policy in Afghanistan and the NATO summit will be debated with High Representative/Commission Vice-President Catherine Ashton. The session also sees the award ceremony for Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - the 2010 laureate is Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas - as well as the annual report on human rights worldwide in 2009.

The regular press briefing with the EP Press Service and political group spokespeople commenting on the final version of the session agenda will take place on Friday Ebs LIVE  11.00  (Anna Politkovskaya room PHS 0A050).

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