Jana Toom

Member of the European Parliament

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

Jana Toom's week: employees' right to disconnect is back

Monday morning began with the launch of the programme ‘10 Minutes with Jana Toom’ on Radio Maximum (in Russian). The topic of the first episode was el...

02/03/2026, #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...

22/02/2026, #Brussels Diary

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...

15/02/2026, #Brussels Diary

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...

09/02/2026, #Brussels Diary

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...

31/01/2026, #Brussels Diary

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...

25/01/2026, #Brussels Diary