European Parliament fulfilled essential agenda in legislature marked by crises – Europa Viva

This week, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament celebrated the final plenary session of the IX legislature, marked by two unprecedented crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which did not compromise the essentials of the agenda drawn up in 2019.

Despite the crises, one of which is still ongoing, which have concentrated much of the European Union’s (EU) energies at the level of the three institutions, the widespread understanding in the European Parliament is that the assembly “complyed”, with the adoption of legislative packages ” transformative” for Europe, according to several parliamentary and party sources.

Among the most emblematic pieces of legislation adopted in this legislature (2019-2024), are the large-scale legislative package known as the Ecological Pact (‘Green Deal’, in the original), the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC), regulation of digital services and markets, including the first community regulation on artificial intelligence, laws such as those to guarantee equal pay, to combat online child sexual abuse and violence against women, and, very recently, the new Migration Pact and the review of EU fiscal rules.