The coordinators of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) will discuss, on Thursday 21 November, the fate of Amazon’s lobbyists, who are currently denied access to the European Parliament. On 10 October, in a letter to the Chair of the parliamentary committee, Li Andersson (The Left, Finnish), the US company asked to take part in the committee’s work and invited its members to come and observe the operation of one of its facilities, several sources told Agence Europe, confirming a report by Euronews.
The European Parliament took the decision to revoke the access of Amazon representatives last February, at the request of the EMPL Committee, which was irritated that they had repeatedly been refused to take part in hearings on working conditions in their facilities (see EUROPE 13359/28).
The coordinators will first have to decide whether to organise this mission, agree on a hearing, and then make a recommendation to the Conference of Presidents and then to the European Parliament Quaestors on whether to revoke this ban on access.
Link to Amazon request: https://aeur.eu/f/edd (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)