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The European Parliament President's opening remarks at European Council meetings are one of the two most visible and frequent interactions between Parliament and the European Council. While the European Parliament President is not a member of the European Council and does not remain for the entirety of the meeting, his or her participation is significant nonetheless. Meetings of the European Council, which includes the 27 EU leaders and the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission ...

The creation and formalisation of the European Parliament's political groups goes back to June 1953 and the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community's Common Assembly. This briefing analyses the evolution of the groups' structures and trajectories until the European elections in 2019. It shows how the conflict between national, political and transnational ideological allegiances of delegated Members of the Common Assembly was already present from the start, providing an important impetus ...

This briefing describes the treaty provisions and appointment procedure for ECA members at EU level. In addition, it provides information on the national nomination procedure for ECA members in Belgium and Finland and the countries’ candidates.

Le présent document de l’EPRS analyse les progrès accomplis dans la réalisation des objectifs du programme stratégique mis au point par Ursula von der Leyen, Présidente de la Commission européenne, et son collège de commissaires lors de leur prise de fonctions en décembre 2019. Il examine en particulier l’état d’avancement de la mise en œuvre des six priorités essentielles du programme, à l’aube de la dernière année avant les élections européennes de 2024. La Commission von der Leyen – au moment ...

The United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union at midnight (CET) on 31 January 2020 and the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (the Withdrawal Agreement) entered into force. The Withdrawal Agreement establishes the conditions for the UK's orderly withdrawal from the EU and focuses on the issues that the parties identified as key to ensure this. The protection of the rights of ...

The revised enlargement methodology adopted in February 2020, and a new 'gradual approach' endorsed by the European Council in June 2022, are at the heart of EU accession negotiations with the Western Balkan countries and those countries' accession-related reforms. As the region's six countries differ in population size, political systems and history, their reform agenda and accession tempo also vary. With a budget of €14.2 billion for 2021 2027, the EU Instrument for pre-Accession Assistance (IPA ...

Solidarity in EU asylum policy

Briefing 12-01-2023

The arrival of refugees and irregular migrants in the EU in unprecedented numbers in 2015 exposed a number of deficiencies in the EU's external border, asylum and migration policy, and sparked EU action through various legal and policy instruments. Today, even though the EU has been relatively successful in securing its external borders, curbing irregular migrant arrivals and increasing cooperation with third countries, Member States are still reluctant to show solidarity and do more to share responsibility ...

La présente étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen, à la demande de la commission AFCO, porte sur les procédures législatives prévues par les traités. Elle porte sur les procédures législatives spéciales dans lesquelles le Parlement ou le Conseil adopte un acte avec la participation (consultation ou approbation) de l’autre institution. Cela ne signifie toutefois pas que l’institution participante ne peut influer ...

This briefing describes the treaty provisions and appointment procedure for ECA members at EU level. In addition, it provides information on the national nomination procedure for the ECA member in Estonia and the country's new candidate.

The Lithuanian national audit office, the Valstybes Kontrole, performs three different functions: (1) it audits the state and all public institutions as the country’s supereme audit institution as well as (2) all use of European funds as its audit authority. In addition, (3) it monitors the soundness of the Lithuianian budget from a fiscal point of view, including the country’s compliance with the EU’s Maastricht criteria (independent fiscal institution).