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Highlights - EMPL ICM on "Affordable Housing for All" - Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 15:00-18:00 - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
The European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) will host an Interparliamentary Committee Meeting (ICM) titled "Affordable Housing for All – Policy Approaches and Best Practice Cases in the Member States." The event will take place at the European Parliament in Brussels (Antall 6Q2) on Wednesday, 9 April 2025, from 15:00 to 18:00.Organised in cooperation with the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis (HOUS), the meeting will address the escalating housing crisis across Europe and explore policy solutions at both the EU and Member State levels. Discussions will focus on the social and economic impacts of rising housing costs, mass tourism, and short-term rentals, which have limited access to affordable housing and affected employment and social welfare. The event will bring together representatives from the European Parliament, national parliaments, EU institutions, and key NGOs to assess these challenges and align efforts with the European Affordable Housing Plan. Participants will also exchange successful strategies and best practices to identify effective, adaptable housing policies across the EU.
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Highlights - Public hearing: Human rights situation in Cuba - Subcommittee on Human Rights
On 8 April 2025, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) is organising a public hearing on the "Human rights situation in Cuba". In the programme of the hearing – two main topics: 1) Human rights situation and fundamental freedoms in Cuba; 2) EU response, state of play and future perspectives.Holding a public hearing on the situation of Human Rights in Cuba will allow DROI subcommittee to assess the current situation of Human Rights in Cuba, including the situation of the remaining political prisoners in the framework of the liberation of 553 of them under a Vatican-mediated deal.
Furthermore, the recent change of Administration in the USA makes it more urgent to monitor the Human Rights situation in the island, with U.S. President Donald Trump signing an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by the previous administration on 20 January 2025, including the revocation of the order of 14 January 2025 to remove Cuba from a blacklist of nations that sponsor terrorism and the reintroduction of sanctions that had contributed to the island's worst economic crisis in decades.
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Latest news - ENVI Committee meetings - Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
The next committee meetings will take place on:
- Monday, 7 April 2025, from 15:30 to 18:30 in Brussels
- Tuesday, 8 April 2025, from 9:15 to 12:45, from 14:45 to 17:00 (ENVI) and 17:00 to 18:00 (CJ36 ECON-ENVI joint committee procedure)
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Highlights - Public hearing on "Enhancing media literacy in the digital age" - Committee on Culture and Education
On April 8th, 2025, the Committee on Culture and Education will host a public hearing on “Enhancing media literacy in the digital age’’, exploring the impact of digital technologies and media literacy.Speakers include Francesca Pasquali, discussing digital media's role in daily life; Alessandro Orlowski, addressing online disinformation; Fernanda Bonacho, on journalism's role in media literacy; and Will Kingston-Cox, focusing on empowering youth to combat disinformation.
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Highlights - BUDG-CONT - Lessons learnt from the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation - 7.4.25 - Committee on Budgets
On 7 April 2025, the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Budgetary Control will hold a joint public hearing on the "Lessons learnt from the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism and ways to make it more effective for the future".Four years after the entry into force of the Rule of law conditionality Regulation, Members will hear from different stakeholders how they assess the functioning of the legislation, including its impact on the ground, and discuss how the functioning of the mechanism could be improved going forward.
The hearing, which complements the recent exchange of views with Commissioner Serafin on the implementation of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation, should feed into the forthcoming BUDG-CONT implementation report on the Conditionality Regulation.
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