They may also have an trade of views in regards to the ongoing aggression of Russia in Ukraine, and the present scenario between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
After the assembly, the ministers of the EU-27 will meet the six international ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
The EU-Western Balkans ministerial assembly will happen just a few days after the EU Fee introduced a €6bn development plan for the area.
European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, for her half, will meet Armenia’s international affairs minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday (15 November).
On Tuesday (14 November), EU ministers will meet with Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg and the European Defence Company Steering Board for breakfast. Their assembly will probably be adopted by a dialogue on the EU’s defence coverage and efforts to help Ukraine militarily.
Stoltenberg can be anticipated to satisfy the school of commissioners the next day and with the EU commissioner for worldwide partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, on Friday (17 November).
Additionally on Wednesday, the European Fee is because of unveil its Expertise Mobility Package deal. Underneath this initiative, Brussels need to create a system that might match European employers with third-country jobseekers to fill current gaps in some sectors.
The package deal would come with, for instance, a advice for EU member states to recognise the {qualifications} of international work seekers.
European Council prep
Throughout the road, EU ministers answerable for European affairs will kick off preparations for the final European Council of this 12 months, scheduled in early December.
Opening accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova and approving EU monetary assist to Kyiv within the long-term are anticipated to be excessive on the agenda of the following assembly of EU leaders.
Spain’s request to make Catalan, Basque and Galician EU official languages, the European electoral regulation and the fee’s work programme for 2024 are additionally attributable to be mentioned by the ministers on Wednesday.
Ministers from the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) will meet the identical day in Apia, Samoa, to debate additional cooperation, earlier than signing a brand new partnership.
Moreover, the decision-making physique of the European Central Financial institution (ECB) will meet on Wednesday.
Whereas inflation would possibly stay excessive within the quick time period, protecting rates of interest unchanged for some time might convey inflation to their two-percent goal, ECB president Christine Lagarde mentioned final Friday.
”We’re at a degree the place we imagine that, if stored lengthy sufficient, — and this lengthy sufficient will not be trivial — will take us to the two-percent medium-term goal,” she mentioned.
Youngster sexual abuse on-line
The controversial invoice geared toward stopping on-line youngster sexual abuse will probably be voted on by the parliament’s civil liberties committee on Tuesday.
Whereas the fee proposal has been slammed as an unprecedented mass surveillance mechanism, MEPs’ preliminary settlement advocates for focused management of suspicious people subjected to judicial warrants.
If adopted, the invoice will probably be topic to a plenary vote later this month.
On the identical day, the committee can be anticipated to vote on a report extending EU crimes to incorporate hate speech and hate crimes.
Additionally on Tuesday, co-legislators will collect for one more spherical of negotiations on the first-ever EU regulation to fight violence in opposition to ladies and home violence.
In the meantime, the possibly final trilogue assembly on the Vital Uncooked Supplies act will happen on Monday. Minerals akin to lithium or cobalt are thought of key to the EU’s strategic autonomy and financial prosperity as they’re important to the event of many fashionable applied sciences.
MEPs within the transport and tourism committee on Thursday (16 November) are poised to undertake its place on the revision of EU guidelines to combat unlawful discharges from ships into the ocean.
Additionally this week, Spanish socialists MPS within the Madrid parliament goal to register the controversial amnesty regulation that has secured Pedro Sánchez re-election because the nation’s prime minister — with an investiture vote that would happen on Wednesday or Thursday.