European Parliament in a sentence

This will be one important objective of our joint efforts of the European Association of Dermatology and Venereology and the European Cancer Patient Coalition in discussions with the new European Parliament and European Commission.

The explanatory memorandum also notes that the Estonian Constitution does not regulate the elections to the European Parliament; these are governed by the European Parliament Election Act.

Brexit campaigner and Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage holds a British Union Jack flag ahead of a debate on the guidelines on the framework of future EU-UK relations at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, March 13, 2018.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the European Parliament during a debate on the future of Europe, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Nov. 13, 2018.

The President of the European Parliament also attends to give an opening speech outlining the European Parliament 's position before talks begin.

The centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is set to remain the European Parliament's largest group, putting its candidate to head the European Commission, incumbent Ursula von der Leyen of Germany, in pole position for a second term.

Bas Eickhout, leader of the Dutch green party GroenLinks in the European parliament, has been chosen as one half of the European green’s dual candidacy for the job of president of the European Commission, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker.

It will then be discussed by the European Parliament and Council of the European Union under the ordinary legislative procedure before being published in the Official Journal of the European Union and becoming law.

Indeed, the European parliament only began to fill up about an hour and 20 minutes into his session, and about 90 minutes in, the parliament appears full.

The decision followed an extraordinary joint plenary session of Morocco’s two houses of Parliament in Rabat on Monday that was convened to address the European Parliament’s resolution from last week.

Herbert Kickl, whose recently took in the most votes in European Parliament elections last month, said all conservative parties across the EU would be invited to join the Patriots for Europe bloc when the new EU Parliament sits in Strasbourg July 16.

In a vote Wednesday, members of the European Parliament condemned the meeting in passing a resolution that provided a commitment by the Parliament to maintain its support for Ukraine.

Since Macron dissolved parliament after a European Parliament election battering, his centrists are badly lagging the RN as well as a reforged left-wing alliance called the New Popular Front (NFP) in surveys of voting intentions.

The ECJ said that if Spanish courts had wanted to keep him in detention to prevent him from travelling to the European Parliament for his inauguration, they should have requested that Parliament waive his immunity.

The trade minister’s remarks came a day after the European Parliament voted on targets to cap crop-based biofuels, which follows the parliament’s overwhelming decision last year to ban the use of vegetable oils in biofuels.

Parliament's presidency was once again divided between the People's Party and the Socialists, with Jerzy Buzek elected as the first President of the European Parliament from an ex-communist country.

The European Parliament however had supported the inclusion of symbols, and in response backed a proposal to use the symbols, such as the flag more often in the Parliament.

The President of the European Parliament (Parliament's speaker ) is Martin Schulz ( S&D ), elected in January 2012.

In the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, leader of the center-right European People’s Party, told Politico: “The new law is a tool of political intimidation and persecution to prevent change at the next elections in Poland.

The European Commission had proposed 2030 and the European Parliament wanted to ban the combustion engine outright.