On Friday, 24 February 2023, MEP Irena Joveva took part in a debate with secondary school students entitled If I had a say in the future of education… which was organised as part of the European Parliament Ambassador School project. “We appreciate your honesty, the school system is rigid, adjustments are certainly in order, and […]
On Tuesday, 14 February 2023, MEP Irena Joveva spoke at the Strasbourg plenary session on the need for an independent EU ethics body. “I think it is now clear to everyone that there is no other way”, she said, stressing that without integrity, transparency, accountability and zero tolerance of corruption, there will be no trust […]
On Wednesday, 15 February 2023, during a plenary session in Strasbourg, MEP Irena Joveva discussed the erosion of the rule of law in Greece in relation to the wiretapping scandal and media freedom. She stressed that those who blackmail and spy on others must be exposed and stopped before anyone else dies. She was referring […]
On Friday, 3 February, MEP Irena Joveva was invited to speak at the event Intimidating Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP) organised by the Institute for Culture of Diversity Open and the Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy. In her speech, she emphasised the dire need to regulate the field. She also mentioned indicative […]
European Works Councils (EWCs)—more than 1,200 of them in the European Union—are bodies representing employees within companies operating in at least two Member States and have at least 1,000 employees. They are set up on the initiative of at least 100 employees from two Member States, and their composition and operation depend on the type […]
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva appeared as one of the actors in the play No Hope With Hope, which was staged at the European Parliament as part of the so-called hidden theatre. The play sheds light on the lives of men and women fighters in oppressed areas, where the authorities use violence […]
On Wednesday, 18 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva (Renew Europe/Gibanje Svoboda) addressed the European Parliament during the plenary debate on the situation of journalists in Morocco. She highlighted the state of affairs regarding journalism in Morocco, where the Moroccan government is clamping down on journalists and silencing voices that report on government corruption. “If there […]
On Tuesday, 17 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva addressed the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the corruption scandal that has recently rocked the European institutions to the core. In her speech, she said that it is not the rules that will be able to prevent corruption, but the integrity of her […]
On Thursday, 12 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva took part in a voluntary Slovenian language teaching activity at Slovenian Philanthropy. The participants were mostly from Ukraine. The MEP expressed her pleasure to have been given the opportunity to participate in a project that supports integration into a new environment. “I am happy to be part […]
During the interactive debate on media freedom (Medijska svoboda? Bo, da!), , which was hosted by MEP Irena Joveva in early December 2022, young people discussed the upcoming European Media Freedom Act. The workshop critically discussed the current state of the media in the European Union and the measures proposed by the Act, and offered […]