PE793: Meeting XI JINPING - VON DER LEYEN 04.2023 - EU-China policy

Fit for 55 package. MEPs are set to adopt five laws crucial to achieving the EU’s 2030 climate target.

Fighting deforestation. MEPs will debate on Monday and vote on Wednesday on a new law obliging companies to ensure products sold in the EU do not come from deforested land anywhere in the world.

EU’s China policy. On Tuesday morning, Parliament will discuss the European Union’s response to the growing global challenges stemming from a more repressive and assertive China.

Deported Ukrainian children/Putin arrest warrant. On Wednesday morning, MEPs will debate the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the alleged war crimes of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children to Russia.

Asylum and migration. Parliament is set to adopt its negotiating mandates for talks with the Council on key legislation to reform the EU asylum system and measures to facilitate legal migration.

Crypto-assets. MEPs are set to endorse the first EU rules to ensure the traceability of crypto-asset transfers, to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes, as well as a common framework for supervision, consumer protection and environmental safeguards in the crypto markets. (debate Wednesday, vote Thursday)

“This is Europe”/with Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg

(source : europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda)

A philatelic envelope, designed by Historiaphil© (Philately Kiosk of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France) commemorates the highlights of the Strasbourg plenary session of the European Parliament. It was produced as a continuation of the collection of philatelic envelopes bearing witness since 1949 to the history of Europe and its institutions. Its edition is limited to 200 numbered copies.