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Today, the European Parliament’s Budget Committee will hear from Parliament’s negotiating team on the MFF and Own Resources about the recent agreement. Furthermore, the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety discusses the EU’s preparedness and resilience in the field of public health. On Wednesday, the Commission is expected to present a strategy on offshore renewable energy. On Thursday, EU leaders will meet for an online summit to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.

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European Parliament

Today, the Committee on Budgets will hear from Parliament’s negotiating team on the MFF and Own Resources about the political agreement reached with the German Presidency on the future EU financing. Moreover, the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety is discussing the EU’s preparedness and resilience in the field of public health with Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food safety. The debate will focus on the recently published package of initiatives establishing the building blocks of a European Health Union, which includes a proposal on tackling serious cross-border health threats. Also on the agenda: the Pharmaceutical Strategy. Moreover, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence will discuss the impact of disinformation campaigns against Common Security and Defence Policy missions and operations.

European Commission

This week, the Commission is expected to reveal a strategy on offshore renewable energy that aims to support the EU’s ambitions to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Moreover, the College of Commissioner will discuss legislation on sustainability requirements for batteries in the EU, the European Semester autumn package, the opinions on Member States’ draft budgetary plans, euro area recommendations, the alert mechanism report and a joint employment report.

Council of the EU

On Thursday, EU leaders meet online to discuss the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meeting builds on a European Council meeting held last month, where leaders highlighted the need to strengthen the collective effort to fight the pandemic and focused on testing and tracing policies and on vaccines.