12 plenary sessions. 21 plenary speeches. Hours and hours of voting, meetings, debates. Finding compromises. Insisting on things that I knew had to stay or be accepted in the texts. Dozens of amendments and appeals tabled or co-signed. No less important coordination within committees and in the framework of trilogues, which often dragged on late […]
My formal education was slowly coming to an end, so I had to think about what and how to continue. Friends often encouraged me to apply for the tenders they sent me, and among them was also the one for an internship with MEP Irena Joveva at the European Parliament in Brussels. I applied. After […]
Unity, perseverance, freedom. Three words that are not only an echo of the past, but also the outline of our future. On Independence and Unity Day, we remember the day when the Slovenian people clearly expressed their will for their country in a plebiscite. A turning point more than three decades ago, when we as […]
MEP Irena Joveva discussed the situation of one year after the Morocco and Qatargate scandals – a review of measures to increase transparency and accountability in the European institutions at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday, December 13th 2023. She stressed, among other things, that weak measures strengthen political forces whose only goal is […]
On Wednesday, December 13th, 2023, MEP Irena Joveva discussed the European Union’s strategy to help young people coping with the housing and cost of living crisis at the plenary session in Strasbourg. How many of you here have ever made a joke about young people, for example 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds, who still live with their […]
On Friday, 8 December 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke with her Slovenian colleagues about the achievements and challenges of her outgoing mandate at a debate in Studio Evropa. ”When I accepted the fact that I cannot change the world, even though it needs to be changed for the better, I focused on the part that […]
For almost two years we have been following the horrors of the war in Ukraine. For more than two months we have been following the horrors of the war in Gaza. Yes, we are following. More or less. We express concern. We condemn. We regret. And we wonder. Every now and then we demand something. […]
At the 22nd meeting of the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee, which took place during the November plenary session in Strasbourg, MEP Irena Joveva spoke about relations in the region and the state of the media. Among other things, she stressed that the people of the Western Balkans, including – or especially – the citizens […]
MEP Irena Joveva addressed the European Parliament on Tuesday, 21 November 2023, at the Strasbourg plenary session as a rapporteur on behalf of her political group Renew Europe. She addressed the European Parliament on job creation and the associated just transition and impact investment. Among other things, she advocated for a green deal, achieving climate […]
Those of us who pot our children to sleep in a warm bed every night are the lucky ones. Under a safe roof. And above all… alive and well. This is a rough translation of a quote that algorithms have been suggesting to me on social media for quite some time now. Yes, I could […]