Monetary dialogue with ECB President Christine Lagarde; ECR Group Meeting in Madrid; Online event: Wagner Group in Belarus, lessons to learn from the past and new threats?

Monetary dialogue with ECB President Christine Lagarde

On Monday, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will discuss inflation, economic governance, public debt and high levels of bank liquidity with MEPs from the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. ECR MEP Johan Van Overtveldt, rapporteur of the ECB Annual Report 2023, and ECR MEP Eugen Jurzyca will take the floor.

When: Monday @ 15:00

Where: ANTALL 4Q1

ECR Group Meeting in Madrid

From Tuesday to Friday, ECR MEPs will meet for internal study days in Madrid, Spain. Urgent EU issues such as security and border protection, energy security, industrial policy and environmental policy will be discussed, as well as the EU in the Iberosphere and visions for Europe’s future.

When: Tuesday - Friday

Online event: Wagner Group in Belarus, lessons to learn from the past and new threats?

On Wednesday, ECR Group MEP Anna Fotyga together with Renew Group MEP Petras Auštrevičius will host an online discussion focusing on the activities of the Wagner Group in Belarus. Terrorists from the Russian Wagner Group have a long list of crimes committed in Ukraine, Syria, Libya and the countries of the Sahel and Central Africa. This online discussion will look to answer the following questions: What role has the Kremlin planned for the Wagner Group in Belarus?, What are the threats associated with their presence at the border?, What role does the Wagner Group play in the hyrbid war in which the Kremlin and Lukashenko are using migrants from Africa? The conversation will feature interventions from academics, journalists and politicians including: member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Raimundas Lopata; Samuel Ramani, associate fellow at Royal United Services Institute; Dmytro Zolotukhin, former deputy minister of information policy of Ukraine; Karen Philippa Larsen, PhD candidate, global security and world views, Danish Institute for International Studies; and Belarusian freelance journalist and researcher Hanna Liubakova.

When: Wednesday @ 13:00 - 14:30.

Where: online - register here.

Exhibition: The Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversation with God

On the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the birth of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, ECR MEP Witold Waszczykowski invites you to the opening of the exhibition “The Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversation with God” on Tuesday.

When: Tuesday @ 13:00

Where: Altiero Spinelli Floor 3 - Bar area 3D