Brussels Diary

Jana Toom's week: what are we fighting piracy for?

I spent most of this week on a business trip to Madrid. The trip was organised by the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and focu...


Jana Toom's week: ahead of the “spring cleaning”

This week, the European Parliament met in Strasbourg from Monday to Thursday. Bills, discussions, debates, amendments, and votes followed one after an...


Jana Toom's week: from EU budget to Tallinn budget

This week, like the previous one, was devoted to working in the EP committees and to preparing for the next week: on 9 February, the European Parliame...


Jana Toom's week: EU budget, digital euro, women's rights

This week was a ‘committee week’. In other words, it was filled with meetings and discussions that pave the way for the improvement of European legisl...


Jana Toom's week: MEPs run amok

I spent this busy and sometimes unpleasant week in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament's plenary session was held from Monday to Thursday.1On Tu...


Brussels Diary with Yana Toom: The Desire to Conquer Greenland

Is it true that Trump will invade Greenland and fight with ‘two dog sleds’? Is NATO going to defend the world's largest island? The MEP Jana Toom (Ren...


Social Affairs, Trade Unions and Committees

In the new year, I decided to try a new format – a brief overview of my work for the week. Just in case anyone thinks I'm doing nothing in the Europea...


“The Brussels Diary With Yana Toom”: Summing Up The Results For The Year

In the last TV issue of the Brussels Diary of this season, it seems right to sum up the results for the year.The main EU initiative in the pandemic ha...