7th Ordinary Session of the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly.

24-27 June 2018.

Venue: Brussels.

MEPs and national MPs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine will debate the fight against corruption and money laundering and adopt resolutions on regional security, foreign direct investment, energy efficiency and ways to tackle undeclared labour.

The European Parliament delegation will be headed by its chairwoman Rebecca Harms (Greens, DE). Ahead of the event she said: “Since our last meeting in Ukraine in autumn 2017, much has happened in the countries of our Eastern partners as well as in the EU member states – from elections to political turmoil and even a velvet revolution. I am looking forward to exchanging views with all partners on these new developments and on crucial topics, such as common security challenges, foreign direct investments, energy efficiency, social security and combating money laundering and corruption”.

The session will be opened on 26 June at 16h by the European Parliament Vice-President Zdzislaw Krasnodebski and Euronest Co-Presidents Rebecca Harms and Marian Lupu (Moldova).

The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly was established on 3 May 2011 in Brussels as the parliamentary institution of the EU Eastern Partnership. Meeting once a year, it aims to promote political association and further economic integration between the EU and its Eastern neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The European Parliament delegates 60 members, and the Eastern Partners 10 each. Belarus does not yet take part in the Assembly’s activities, but Belarusian MPs will be welcomed once political requirements have been fulfilled.

The Ukrainian parliamentary delegation is taking part in the above ordinary session which has been scheduled to span a variety of political activities, viz -  meetings of the Eastern Partners' Delegations to the Euronest PA and the political families, meetings of the Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy, the Committee on Economic Integration, Legal Approximation and Convergence with EU Policies, the Committee on Energy Security, the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment, Education, Culture and Civil Society, the Working Group on Belarus’s association, Meeting of the Bureau of the Euronest PA, Forum of Euronest Women Members, and  plenary Session of the Seventh Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.

Brief Euronest’s agenda:

1. Approval of minutes of the Sixth Ordinary Session;

2. Security challenges in the Eastern Partnership countries and enhancing the role of the EU in addressing them;

3. Foreign direct investment in the EU Member States and Eastern Partnership countries;

4. Energy efficiency development and energy sustainability in the EU and Eastern European partners;

5. Tackling informal and undeclared labour and enhancing social security of employees in the European Union and Eastern Partnership countries;

6. Financial crimes, tax evasion and tax avoidance;

7. Money laundering, corruption, terrorism financing;

8. Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Euronest PA and the standing committees.

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