Agenda plenary session from 15th April 2015, Strasbourg

Agenda briefing plenary session from the 15th of April 2015 in Strasbourg

• 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide

  A European Parliament resolution marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be voted on Wednesday afternoon, following a debate.

• MEPs to call for end to discrimination and hate crime against Roma people

  Parliament is likely to request further efforts to put an end to discrimination, hate crime and hate speech against Roma people and to call on the EU to recoginse 2 August as the Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, in commemoration of the Roma genocide in World War II, in a resolution to be voted on Wednesday. The resolution will wind up the debate held on 25 March. International Roma Day was celebrated on 8 April.

• Parliament to decide on EU aid for redundant Mory-Ducros workers (France)

  Around 2,500 workers made redundant in France’s former road haulage company Mory-Ducros in 2014 should get EU aid worth €6 million to help them find jobs, if Parliament gives its approval on Wednesday. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still has to be approved by Council.

• Vote on carry-over of EU funding to 2015 for late-starter national programmes

  Proposed changes to ceilings within the EU’s 2014-2017 budget will be debated on Wednesday at 15.00 and put to a vote at about 18:30. These changes would allow €21.1 billion in unused commitment appropriations to be carried over from 2014 to 2015-17, to help fund member state-managed programmes that started lat