The EU has pledged €6 billion to help address soaring youth unemployment, is it enough? And MEPs vote to cut CO2 emissions to 95g/km, will electric cars gain popularity?
25% of Europe's young people are out of work. The Youth Employment Initiative has been proposed to tackle the problem, but will it be possible in a crisis-torn Europe?
Sergio Cofferati on what Europe should do to boost youth employment and economic growth, Ria Oomen-Ruijten on her proposal for streamlining pension portability.
Sylvie Guillaume worries about effects of the crisis on millions of Europeans with a disability, Guido Milana is friend of both fishermen and fish before policy reform.
MEPs discuss last week's summit on the EU's long-term budget with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy at the Parliament's Conference of Presidents meeting.
As a tough talking summit on the EU's long-term budget opens in Brussels, unfinished business from earlier years threatens several cherished EU programmes.