Emissions from ships and cars

Parliament voted on Wednesday to include CO2 emissions from maritime transport in the EU Emissions Trading System. Ships must also contribute to climate neutrality, argued MEPs.

They also insisted that cars should respect emission limits under real driving conditions and that provisions allowing for discrepancies between emission results from laboratory tests and real driving should end by September 2022.

Foreign policy

Following reports of electoral fraud in the presidential elections in Belarus in August, Parliament called for new elections and urged EU sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko.

MEPs also called for an international investigation into the assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and for sanctions against the perpetrators.

Turkey must immediately end illegal drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, MEPs said in another resolution.

Roma integration

Romani people in Europe suffer the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, MEPs pointed out in a resolution on Thursday. They called on EU countries to do more to ensure access to education and early childhood development and end discrimination and segregation.