During the European Parliament’s plenary sessions, motions for resolutions play a highly visible role. This seminar explains the politics and procedures of parliamentary resolutions and debates. If you want to know how MEPs and their staff prepares and debates resolutions, this is the seminar for you. The seminar also explores one of the classical tools of MEPs, their ability to ask parliamentary questions to the Commission and the Council. Questions range from EU-policies and food standards to Labour rights and Free Trade Agreements, and always require an official reply. Learn the rules, significance and symbolic value of parliamentary questions.

In this seminar, you will learn:

• Procedures for urgency debates and resolutions
• How the political groups debate and amend resolutions
• How to use parliamentary questions
• Procedures for plenary sessions