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            From 3 to 7 November 2025, EP committees will be discussing how to harness women’s talent through education, training and employment, to drive economic growth and progress.
Addressing EU leaders at today's European Council, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said that Parliament will deliver, making things better, simpler and easier.
        
        
            
    
        
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            Parliament adopted its priorities for the UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, urging the COP30 to recommit to limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
In this press kit, you will find a selection of the European Parliament’s press releases reflecting MEPs’ priorities for the topics on the summit agenda.
        
        
            
    
        
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            Thursday 23 October
        
        
            
    
        
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            In a formal sitting on Wednesday, the two prominent Belarusian opposition leaders called on the EU to keep supporting the Belarusian people’s struggle for freedom and democracy.
        
        
            
    
        
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            Condemning polarisation and state repression in Serbia, MEPs demand an open investigation of the Novi Sad tragedy and a EU fact-finding mission to assess the situation.
        
        
            
    
        
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            MEPs urge sustained EU engagement with Belarus, denouncing human rights abuses and highlighting the threat posed by Russia’s influence.
        
        
            
    
        
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            MEPs want a 2026 budget that reinforces the EU’s key priorities in uncertain times and boosts research, competitiveness, and defence.
        
        
            
    
        
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            Parliament will decide its position on simpler sustainability requirements ahead of talks with EU governments at the next plenary session in Brussels on 13 November.
        
        
            
    
        
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            The two journalists, imprisoned in Belarus and Georgia, are the laureates of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be awarded by Parliament on 16 December.
        
        
            
    
        
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            The draft legislation seeks to protect the Union’s interests from the weaponisation of energy supplies by the Russian Federation.
        
        
            
    
        
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            Wednesday 22 October
On Tuesday, Follow the Money won the 2025 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for exposing the hidden financial networks enabling Russia’s sanction-evading oil trade.
        
        
            
    
        
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            MEPs backed a review of EU driving licence rules introducing provisions on novice drivers, a digital licence, and driving disqualification.
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                    Weekly agenda:Next events 
                
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, SPAAK, 3C050
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, SPAAK, 3C050
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, ANTALL, 6Q2
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, SPINELLI, 3G-3
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, ANTALL, 4Q1
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, ANTALL, 4Q1
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, SPINELLI, 3G-2
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, SPAAK, 3C050
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                Parliamentary committeesBrussels, ANTALL, 4Q2
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