"The responsible committee is fundamentally misunderstanding its role. It is not the Parliament’s job to assess the evidence or determine guilt. Its sole responsibility is to prevent politically motivated persecution. There was no indication of that here. Therefore, we should let the prosecutor do its job. If MEPs increasingly shield themselves from investigations in this way, we must discuss reforming the immunity procedure."
– Daniel Freund

https://danielfreund.eu/en/aktuelles/huawei-scandal-parliament-seeks-to-block-prosecutors-work/ #EuroParl

On 2026-01-21 “MEPs voted against a push by EU ministers to weaken air passenger rights”

#EuroParl “wants passengers to have the right to carry with them onto the airplane, at no additional cost, one personal item (such as a handbag, backpack or laptop) and one small piece of hand luggage with maximum dimensions of 100 cm (combined length, width and height) and seven kilograms.”

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260116IPR32442/european-parliament-stands-behind-air-passenger-rights #HandLuggage #CarryOnBaggage #AirTravel

shots fired: https://www.asktheeu.org/request/development_and_maintenance_docu

requested the following documents related to the MEP part of the #europarl website at www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/ in the timeframe going back 3 years from the reception of this request, such as (list not exhaustive, please identify any other relevant documents):

- all specifications,
- all requirements,
- all bug/issue tracker items
- all budgetary decisions and their justification
- all contracts if this work is outsourced

#Europarl Multimedia Feature Request:
Have the ability to tick multiple language boxes to hear that audio in original language.

More than half of the EU citizens are multilingual, it would be nice to hear more positions in the debates in original language and not have to use a single language when following debates.

We're in 2025, this should be manageable technically.

Me ha venido a la cabeza otro argumento contra el prospecto digital de los medicamentos.

La información médica es información especialmente protegida. De usarse el prospecto digital, los operadores podrían correlacionar el acceso a los prospectos digitales de los usuarios con las enfermedades de estos, y vender esta información a las aseguradoras.

#medicamentos #Europa #europarl #eucommission