EU Parliament

GeoPolicy: A Week Inside the European Parliament – Science, Policy, and the Role of Experts

Bianca Drepper March 28, 2025

Outside the European Parliament. Photo Credit: Bianca Drepper

As the selected scientist in the EGU’s 2024 Science-Policy Pairing Scheme, I had the opportunity to experience life inside the European Parliament for a week with the support of Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jutta Paulus and her team, who are part of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. A week is short, but in these few days, I gained deeper insights into the inner workings of ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Proposed cuts to EU science funding could slow future research and innovation

Chloe Hill October 23, 2020

State of the Union 2015. Credit: Martin Schulz. Distributed via Flickr

As a European scientific union with over 20,000 members, the EGU is well positioned to provide feedback on the current and future state of research and innovation funding in Europe. The recent cuts to the EU’s 2021-2027 research budget from European Parliament’s initial proposal of €120 billion to the current proposal of €81 billion (at 2018 prices), will not only affect researchers througho ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: My experience with the EGU’s science-policy pairing scheme

Solmaz Mohadjer January 28, 2020

Solmaz Mohadjer and MEP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri

“Thanks for coming, but no time for celebratory drinks,” I told my colleagues. I arrived in Brussels right after defending my doctoral thesis to brief the Finnish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Miapetra Kumpula-Natri and her team about the impact of sea-level rise and climate change on the coastal communities of the Baltic Sea. Climate science? Baltic Sea? EU Parliament? I was soon bombar ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: getting ready for the European Parliament Election

Chloe Hill January 25, 2019

You are the children of a modern, democratic and open Europe. Credit: Ministry of Environment - European Parliament (distributed via Flickr).

The European Parliament currently has 751 members who belong to one of the eight political groups, at least one of the 20 different committees and represent approximately 500 million people from the 28 EU Member States. The EU Parliament plays an extremely important role in the EU. It oversees the EU budget, launches investigations into specific issues and shares legislative powers with the Counci ...[Read More]