Recommendations to improve Europeans' access to medicine are debated by MEPs on Wednesday and voted on the following day. Due to the high and increasing costs of treatments, especially the latest and most effective ones, measures are need to make them affordable without compromising innovation in research.
The rights of EU citizens living in the UK are discussed on Wednesday following reports that the British Home Office might be using restrictive interpretations of their right to stay in the UK post-Brexit.
The US still requires visas for people from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania, a decade or more after these countries joined the EU. On Thursday, MEPs vote on a resolution calling on the European Commission to reimpose visa requirements for US citizens until the matter is solved.
The civil liberties and justice committees discuss on Tuesday the third reform of the Common European Asylum System, which is about how to decide which EU country is responsible for processing asylum seekers. In addition Cecilia Wikström, the MEP in charge of steering this proposal through Parliament, is interviewed live on Parliament’s Facebook page on Wednesday from 14.00 CET.
On Tuesday, the inquiry committee investigating the car emissions scandal votes on its final report. containing findings and recommendations. All MEPs will debate and vote on it during the April plenary in Strasbourg.
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