Europe Matters

Europe Matters is the regular update on the EU and international activities of the National Assembly for Wales. This edition was published in May 2014/ to mark both Europe Day, 9 May 2014, and the European Parliament elections on the 22 May 2014.

Wales would elect four new Welsh MEPs to represent the interests of Wales in the EU’s directly elected legislature, and the relationship between the Assembly and the Welsh MEPs

Europe Matters also provides details of the recent and ongoing work of Assembly Committees on EU affairs, for example the inquiry by Enterprise and Business Committee into EU Funding Opportunities for 2014-2020, due to report later this term, and Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee’s inquiry into Wales’s role in EU decision-making which was set to be debated in plenary on 4 June 2014. It also provides details of the European and international activities of Assembly Members, including the two representatives on the Committee of the Regions – Mick Antoniw AM and Rhodri Glyn Thomas - as well as details of international VIP visitors to the Senedd, for example the Greek Ambassador to the UK who will meet the Presiding Office Dame Rosemary Butler AM and Committee Chairs on 15 May to discuss the Greek Presidency of the EU.