Week of committee and political group meetings

Financial experts will appear before the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee to discuss the proposal to introduce a financial transaction tax in the EU (Monday).

Monday Ebs + LIVE 14.30 CET: Press conference

Monday Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET

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Following the debate with Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán at the Strasbourg plenary session in January, the Civil Liberties Committee will hold a hearing with representatives of Hungarian civil society and the opposition to assess the civil rights situation (Thursday).

Thursday Ebs + 14.45 CET: Best of EP Plenary session debate with Viktor Orban

Thursday Ebs + LIVE 15.00 CET

Thursday Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET

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The Agriculture Committee will vote on plans to continue distributing food to the EU's most deprived citizens (Monday).

Monday Ebs 17.00 CET: Stockshots "Food distribution"

Monday Ebs 3 - 17.30 CET

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The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee will hold its first debate on draft legislation to combat market abuse, insider dealing and market manipulation, which provides among other things for minimum rules on criminal sanctions (Monday).

Monday Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET

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Work on the 2013 budget will begin in the Budgets Committee with a debate on the general guidelines for the Commission's 2013 budget, which covers EU spending in the Member States, and a vote on the EU institutions' administrative budgets (Monday).

President Schulz will meet Željko Komšić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Tuesday (Ebs 2 - 14.30 CET), as well as Egemen Bağış, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs (Tuesday Ebs 3 - 17.30 CET), Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş and Zhang Zhijun, Chinese deputy Foreign Minister (Tuesday Ebs S- 19.30 CET). He meets Anna Diamantopoulou, Greek Minister of Education, on Thursday (Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET).

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Parliament's political groups will prepare for the 13-16 February plenary session in Strasbourg. There will be votes on the EU patent, recent political developments in Hungary, the situation in Russia, the EU-Morocco trade agreement on farm and fisheries products, the food-for-the-needy programme and the growth and jobs strategy. MEPs will also provide their input for the EU summit to be held on 1 and 2 March.

The regular briefing by the EP Press Service and political group spokespeople will be held on Friday at 11.00 (Anna Politkovskaya Room, PHS 0A050).

Friday Ebs + LIVE 11.00 CET

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