Jana Toom

Member of the European Parliament

Jana Toom’s week: Tallinn, Brussels, Riga

Monday began with ‘10 Minutes with Jana Toom’ on Radio Maximum; this time we discussed the revised Anti-Trafficking Directive (I was the shadow rappor...

10/05/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom’s Week: The Strasbourg Heat

In the language of the European Parliament, these weeks are called “Strasbourg sessions”—as a reminder, it is in this French city that a plenary sessi...

02/05/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom’s Week: The Long-Awaited Trilogue

For me, the highlight of the week was the negotiations over the Directive on the Coordination of Social Security Systems, which took place on Wednesda...

25/04/2026, #Brussels Diary

SLAPP: when they try to silence you through the courts

The wheels of Brussels turn slowly: MEP Jana Toom served as shadow rapporteur on the directive combating SLAPP suits four years ago and only now is th...

24/04/2026, #Jana Toom in the Media

Jana Toom: Fairness for workers is at stake

On Wednesday, 22 April, another trilogue – negotiations between representatives of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of...

22/04/2026, #Jana Toom in the Media

Jana Toom’s Week: Cities on the Frontline

The highlight of the past week was a conference aimed at securing funding from the European Commission for major cities, including those in Estonia, t...

14/04/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom’s Week: Tallinn, Brussels, Lapland

This week saw a short plenary session of the European Parliament, lasting not four days, but two, and held not in Strasbourg, but in Brussels itself.&...

31/03/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom’s Week: Protecting Adults and the European Budget

Committee debates, working on documents, scandals, intrigues, investigations – another week in the life of an MEP, shuttling between Tallinn and Bruss...

23/03/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom’s week: The UN is more alive than dead

Last week was an ‘American’ and ‘women’s’ week for me – from Monday to Thursday I was on a mission for the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equa...

16/03/2026, #Brussels Diary

Jana Toom's week: the gender pay gap – no end in sight

Last Monday began once again with the programme ‘10 Minutes with Yana Toom’ on Radio Maximum (in Russian, listen here). This time, the topic was the w...

09/03/2026, #Brussels Diary