Agenda plenary session from 16th-19th January 2017, Strasbourg

Agenda briefing plenary session from the 16th to the 19th of January 2017 in Strasbourg

• Parliament to elect its new President, Vice-Presidents and Quaestors

  MEPs will cast their votes to choose the new President of the European Parliament for the next two and a half years. After three-minute presentations by each candidate on Tuesday at 9.00, the secret ballots will be chaired by outgoing President Martin Schulz.

• Malta’s EU Council Presidency priorities up for debate with PM Joseph Muscat

  MEPs will debate the priorities of the incoming Maltese Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Wednesday morning.

• MEPs set to return EU Commission blacklist of states at risk of money laundering

  MEPs may decide that the EU Commission must revise its blacklist of countries deemed to be at risk of money laundering and terrorist financing. A draft resolution to be voted on Thursday argues that this list is too limited, and should be expanded, e.g. to include territories that facilitate tax crimes.

• Debate with Messrs Katainen and Tusk on EU summit outcome and challenges in 2017

  MEPs will assess political challenges in 2017 with Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen and Council President Donald Tusk in a Wednesday afternoon debate on the outcome of the European Council meeting of 15 December 2016.

• Welfare state: MEPs to call for “EU core” of social rights for all
• Refugees: MEPs to call for cold snap emergency aid
• Sharing intelligence on terror attacks – debate with Council and Commission
• Human rights and democracy resolutions

  Link: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2017-01-16