Press release - Last-minute press briefing on Parliament’s constitutive plenary session

Key moments this week include:

• Election of Parliament’s President

• Election of Parliament’s Bureau: 14 Vice-Presidents and five Quaestors

• Numerical strength and composition of Parliament’s standing committees and numerical strength of interparliamentary delegations

• Election of the President of the European Commission

• The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine: statements by political group leaders and vote on a resolution

You can follow it live from 9.00 on Tuesday in Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Galizia press room or via Parliament’s webstreaming and EbS.

Journalists wishing to actively participate and ask questions, please connect via Interactio by using this: https://ep.interactio.eu/1dxr-tkkf-mpje

Interpretation of the press briefing will be available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

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Contacts:

• Jaume DUCH GUILLOT

  EP Spokesperson and Director General for Communication

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 43000 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 74705 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 496 59 94 76
  • E-mail: jaume.duch@europarl.europa.eu

• Delphine COLARD

  Head of Spokesperson’s Unit and Deputy Spokesperson

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 43383 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 64123 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 498 98 44 85
  • E-mail: delphine.colard@europarl.europa.eu

• Neil CORLETT

  Head of the Press Unit

  Contact data:

  • Phone number: (+32) 2 28 42077 (BXL)
  • Phone number: (+33) 3 881 74167 (STR)
  • Mobile number: (+32) 470 89 16 63
  • E-mail: neil.corlett@europarl.europa.eu