Brussels, 05/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament will meet in plenary session in Strasbourg next week, from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 May. The priority issues are the debt crisis, nuclear safety, migratory flows (and their effect on Schengen) and the crisis in the fisheries sector.
Monday 9 May: 5.00pm-midnight
First radio spectrum policy programme (report by Gunnar Hökmark)
Oral questions on the European fisheries sector crisis due to rise in oil prices
Emergency autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan (Vital Moreira)
Oral question to the Commission on the free trade agreement with India
Oral question to the Commission on EU-Japan trade relations
Transitional arrangements for bilateral investment agreements between member states and third countries (report by Carl Schlyter)
Preparing forests for climate change (report by Kriton Arsenis)
Tuesday 10 May: 9.00am-11.50am
Joint debate - 2009 budget discharge (39 reports)
Midday-1.00pm: votes
3.00pm-6.30pm
Council and Commission statements on migration flows and asylum and their impact on Schengen
Joint debate on the Transparency Register
Oral questions on the Small Business Act review
6.30pm-8.00pm: Question Time (Commission)
9.00pm-midnight
Textile names and related labelling of textile products (Toine Manders)
Oral questions on the stress tests of the EU banking sector
Oral questions on the enforcement of regulations on the shipping of toxic waste to developing countries
Wednesday 11 May: 9.00am-11.00am
Joint debate - Foreign, security and defence policy
Statement by Catherine Ashton on the main aspects and basic choices of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy (Article 36 TEU)
Statement by Catherine Ashton on the situation in Syria and in Camp Ashraf
Annual report from the Council to the European Parliament on the main aspects and basic choices of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) (report by Gabriele Albertini)
Development of the common security and defence policy following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (report by Roberto Gualtieri)
The EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations (report by María Muñiz De Urquiza)
Midday-1.00pm: votes
3.00pm-7.00pm
Statement by the President of the European Parliament's delegation to the Conciliation Committee on novel foods
Oral question on nuclear safety 25 years after the Chernobyl disaster
Council and Commission statements on developments in the on-going debt crisis and the EU response
Commission statement on the efficiency of the European agencies linked to employment, working conditions and training
9.00pm-midnight
Innovation Union: transforming Europe for a post-crisis (report by Judith Merkies)
Oral question on antibiotic resistance
Thursday 12 May 9.00am-11.50am
Joint debate on education and culture in the EU (Youth on the Move; Early years learning; Cultural dimensions of EU external actions; Sarajevo as a European Capital of Culture in 2014)
Midday-1.00pm: votes
3.00pm-4.00pm: debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan and Belarus
4.00pm-5.00pm: votes on resolutions on the preceding debates. (L.C./transl.rt)