This week Amelia is in Strasbourg for the plenary sessions. As you can see below, a very important part of her working schedule will be dedicated to data protection and meeting groups of interest from different backgrounds to be able to grasp opinions from all the sides. After Strasbourg, she will go to Sweden, to be there the whole next week for several meetings, events and also being in contact with her constituency.

The legal acts developed within the European Union are mainly influenced by three institutions:

Internet has been part of our lives for quite a long time already, but our laws have not fully adapted yet to it. The last legislation related to electronic identification is the Directive on a Community framework for electronic signatures, from 1999. Technology has had 13 years to evolve and has left this directive out of date.

Fellow-Pirate and newest intern at Amelia’s office (Hello world, nice meeting you!) reporting on Hannover weekend.

On Sunday the 20st of January there were the local state parliament elections in Lower Saxony, Germany. Aim:  5% of votes in order to get a parliament seat. Stake: entering the federal parliament in the next national election in September.

This is the last week of the parliamentary year. Amelia will go back to Sweden on Wednesday, but before that she has to arrange many before the end of the year, so her schedule for Monday and Tuesday is even more busy  than normally:

This week Amelia and the rest of MEPs are in Strasbourg for the plenary sessions. If you follow it even just a little, you might have heard several times the expressions ‘Amendment’ and ‘Compromise Amendment’. If you have wondered what they are, here you have the answer.

This week is Strasbourg week again, so Amelia will be in the French frontier city. As always, these weeks are full of meetings, plenaries until late in the evening, and many other activities. You can see the most relevant point of her schedule here:

Monday
16:00 – 17:00 Group Meeting
17:00 – 18:00 Meeting wih Jan Philipp ALBRECHT on Data Protection
21:00 – 23:30 Anniversary dinner of the Lisbon MEPs

Tuesday
17:00 – 18:00 Internet core group meeting
19:00 – 21:00 Green group meeting

This week is a very busy one, but we have been looking forward to it a lot as well. On Wednesday Amelia will have a bloggers day, she will host a breakfast meeting about opportunities and challenges for bloggers around the world and how to pass their message to politicians. Later on, she will also take part in the Bloggers for Democracy event, organised by her and other green MEP's. Also, she will go to Berlin on Friday for the European Young Leaders Meeting. If you want to know more about Amelia's week, you can take a look below:

The application of EU law can be made through two different instruments: