What Michal spoke about.

The next item is the report by Andrey Novakov on Large transport infrastructure projects in the EU (2022/2021(INI)) (A9-0181/2023).

Closing the debate. The vote will take place tomorrow. Written declarations (Rule 171)

The next item is the report by Mr René Repasi: Competition policy – annual report 2022 (2022/2060(INI)) (A9-0183/2023).

The S&D Group has notified the President of Parliament of a decision relating to changes to appointments within a committee. The decision will be set out in the minutes of today’s sitting and takes effect on the date of this announcement.

Closing the debate. Written declarations (Rule 171)

The next item is the Commission statement on EU Day in Memory of the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis (2023/2740(RSP)).

Closing the debate. The vote will take place tomorrow.

Mr President, I’ll be really brief, and I’d like to reiterate my thanks to the shadow rapporteurs and everyone who worked on this report, and also thanks to everyone who participated in this debate. I want to add one more thank you, which I forgot in the in the first intervention, and that is to the MeToo activists here in the European Parliament and beyond for keeping the issue on the agenda. Now

Madam President, Mr Commissioner, dear colleagues, it is indeed a privilege for me to introduce to you this draft report on sexual harassment and MeToo evaluation in the EU, and not just in my capacity as rapporteur, but also as a father of a three year old daughter, and therefore someone who cares deeply about the kind of society and the kind of environment that she and girls across Europe will g

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The next sitting will take place on Tuesday 9 May 2023 at 09.00 in the morning. The agenda has been published and is available on the European Parliament’s website.

This agenda item is closed.

The next item is the one-minute speeches on issues of political importance (Rule 172 of the Rules of Procedure).

This agenda item is closed. The vote will take place on Tuesday [9 May 2023].

That concludes the debate. Written statements (Rule 171)

I do apologise to colleagues who have requested the catch-the-eye. We have to skip that because we are running late.

I am sorry, Ms Chaibi, it’s not allowed to bring these props to the rostrum. I do apologise.

I apologise Mr Novakov, the English interpretation got lost for the last 20 seconds or so. All the interpretation, in fact. I think it was just for the final few seconds.

The next sitting will take place tomorrow, Thursday 30 March 2023 at 09.00 in the morning. The agenda of the meeting will be published and is available on the European Parliament’s website.

Before closing the meeting let me apologise to every one of you for the technical difficulties to all colleagues but also the interpreters, whose fault it wasn’t but also had to work under hard conditions. We do hope that this will not happen again anytime soon.

The next item is the one-minute speeches on issues of political importance (Rule 172 of the Rules of Procedure).

The debate is over.

I’m sorry, it wasn’t a blue card, but it’s noted ...

Apologies, colleagues, we should now be able to resume. It was a general problem, none of the interpreters’ booths were hearing the room. So it was not just about Croatian. We now continue with the debate on the Commission statement on the rights of children in rainbow families and same-sex parents, in particular in Italy.

I’m really sorry, we will need to suspend for a minute because apparently the Croatian interpreting booth is not well connected to the other language booths. I do apologise – this is not sabotage against Croatian MEPs! You can trust me. We will suspend for a minute or two and then resume once the connection is established. Thank you, and I do apologise. (The sitting was suspended at 20.15 for tech