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Today is Labour Day. Did you know every worker in the European Union has rights? 🇪🇺
The EU has put in place a set of labour rules covering minimum wages, pay transparency, health, and more.
Find out how this is improving working conditions across Europe ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652953755170787328
The EU is taking a stand for fair wages and decent living standards! 👷♂️👷♀️
The European Parliament is calling on all EU countries to establish a national minimum wage that allows workers to live comfortably and avoid falling into poverty.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652900658893168645
The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president is accused of forcefully deporting Ukrainian children from their homeland. Parliament wants tougher global measures against Russian leaders.
Watch our video to learn more ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652740348760969218
Discover what the European Parliament will be working on the coming week ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652704364086140929
Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental principle of fairness and equality.
In the EU women earn on average less than men. MEPs have passed new rules making companies more transparent on salaries and outlawing practices like pay secrecy.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652374689325494274
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Our support to Ukraine gets stronger.
This week, @europarl_en and @ua_parliament strengthened cooperation to ensure Ukraine's future in our European family.
Thank you President @ZelenskyyUa, Prime Minister @Denys_Shmyhal and Speaker @r_stefanchuk for your commitment to reform.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EP_President/status/1652265730258206722
The right to petition is one of the fundamental rights of all European citizens and residents. 🇪🇺
Here's how you can submit a petition to the European Parliament ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652214634676654080
The use of crypto-assets and the technology behind them has proven to be both immensely promising and problematic.
That is why the EU is working on rules to help boost the development of these technologies and their use in the EU, while protecting users.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1652002235260215296
The rate of forest loss around the world is alarming.
Find out what causes deforestation and how new EU legislation is set to limit the importation of goods produced on deforested land ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651972036082958337
🌿 The European Parliament is on a mission to make Europe green!
MEPs have already approved measures regulating the European carbon market and more specific rules for aviation.
The goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030: http://eptwitter.eu/qCdx
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651892732141395968
A new report by Parliament's foreign interference committee outlines a new strategy to protect the EU from countries that may try to interfere with elections and manipulate information online.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651632304660389899
The Blue Card is not the only initiative to attract talent to the EU. Find out about different work permits for workers from outside the EU and how the EU is revising them to bolster legal labour migration: http://eptwitter.eu/qCc2
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651559794677800963
Europe needs highly-qualified staff to keep the economy flourishing and help with the impact of an ageing population.
This is why the EU has the Blue Card initiative to attract high-flyers from other parts of the world.
Find out how it works ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651269920087212032
Parliament and Council negotiators have agreed to increase the uptake of sustainable fuels, such as advanced biofuels or hydrogen, in the aviation sector.
Press release: http://eptwitter.eu/qCbq
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651256320211943425
Get access, almost in real time, to thousands of documents and other content produced by the European Parliament every day.
You can even become a beta tester or suggest a dataset ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1651116398150811649
MEPs want a more ambitious carbon levy on imported goods to stop companies moving outside the EU to avoid emissions standards, a practice known as carbon leakage.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1650922621297410051
The EU needs a plan to ensure food security, according to Parliament's agriculture committee.
Find out more: http://eptwitter.eu/qCaE
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1650901230385004544
"European trains connect people, places and generations."
Meet Andrejs! He's a railway systems engineer from Latvia who works on Rail Baltica, the last unfinished piece of the European rail network.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1650566524779003904
More than 20% of energy consumed in the EU comes from renewable sources, but the Parliament wants to drastically boost this.
Find out how: http://eptwitter.eu/qBZA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1650537835760594944
How should the EU deal with China?
This week MEPs debated EU-China relations, focussing on human rights, economic cooperation and the country's response to the war in Ukraine.
Read more: http://eptwitter.eu/qBYA
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europarl_EN/status/1650221752902111232
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