PRESENCE IN THE MEDIA

On February 10, in Strasbourg, the Chair of the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament, Javier Zarzalejos, held a meeting with the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, accompanied by MEP François-Xavier Bellamy. During the meeting, key topics on the European Union’s security and migration agenda were discussed, as well as institutional cooperation to…

On February 6, MEP Javier Zarzalejos met with Thierno Souleymane Diop Ninag, a foreign policy expert and program manager at LEGS-AFRICA (Leadership, Governance, and Sustainable Development in Africa). LEGS-AFRICA is an organization dedicated to promoting leadership, governance, and sustainable development in Africa. During the meeting, key issues for cooperation between Europe and Africa were discussed,…

On January 31 and February 1, the III Gregorio Ordóñez School was held in San Sebastián, organized by Nuevas Generaciones of the Basque Country. This edition featured the collaboration of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Among the participants were MEPs Borja Giménez Larraz, Isabel Benjumea, and the spokesperson for the People’s Party in…

Javier Zarzalejos, as Chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament was invited on January 30 to the Informal Meeting of Interior Ministers in Warsaw, organized by the Polish Presidency of the European Council. Zarzalejos took part in several working sessions focusing on migration management, the new…

Last Wednesday, January 29, Javier Zarzalejos, in his capacity as president of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), met with the vice-president of the Canary Islands Government, Manuel Domínguez, to address the serious migratory crisis affecting the islands. During the meeting, Zarzalejos informed Domínguez about the recent approval of a mission…

On January 21, the PP spokeswoman in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, and the MEP Javier Zarzalejos met with the new Commissioner for Justice, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Michael McGrath, to express their concern about the policies of the Spanish government, which they consider threaten judicial independence and the rule of law in…

The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), under the chairmanship of Javier Zarzalejos, has selected Bruno Gencarelli as its preferred candidate for the post of European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) in a vote held last Thursday, January 16. In a secret ballot, MEPs on the committee ranked the four candidates…

On 3 December, a delegation of the Basque PP, led by Javier Zarzalejos and Javier de Andrés, held several meetings in the European Parliament. That morning, they met with German MEP Christine Schneider of the European People’s Party (EPP) and Esther Herranz, an MEP from La Rioja, to discuss issues related to agriculture, livestock and…

On 3 December, a delegation of the Basque PP, headed by Javier Zarzalejos and the president of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés, held a meeting with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Immigration, Magnus Brunner, at the European Commission. At the meeting, the Basque PP delegation presented the particularities of the Basque case…

On 2 December 2024, the European Parliament held the 5th Interparliamentary Meeting to evaluate the activities of Eurojust, the European agency for judicial cooperation in criminal matters. The meeting, led by Javier Zarzalejos, Chairman of the LIBE Committee, and László Vigh, Vice-Chairman of the Hungarian Parliament’s Justice Committee, highlighted Eurojust’s contribution to the fight against…