EU strategy on the Middle East crisis

First on the agenda at 9.00 is this session’s key debate, with Marilena Raouna, Cyprus’s Deputy Minister for European Affairs, and Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, on the EU response to the crisis in the Middle East, high energy prices, and rising cost of fertilisers.

In a separate debate with Commissioner Hadja Lahbib from around 17.00, MEPs will discuss the situation in southern Lebanon, where hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands injured and displaced following incursions by the Israeli army.

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Proxy voting for new and expectant mothers

Parliament will vote at noon to enable MEPs to delegate their votes while absent for up to three months before and six months after childbirth. The vote, which will be preceded by one round of political group speakers, will conclude the legislative procedure in Parliament. To enter into…