Addressing the Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the passing of Alcide de Gasperi at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that this is the time to make decisions that ensure the prosperity of our Union for future generations.

The winners of the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought are María Corina Machado, as leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia, representing all Venezuelans inside and outside the country fighting to restore freedom and democracy.

The winner of the 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of Journalism is Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project investigating the disappearance of over 50,000 unaccompanied child migrants. In her address, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that the European Parliament will keep supporting investigative journalism and highlighting the essential work of journalism.

Today, the European Parliament marked the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. In her statement, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that the European Parliament will always stand with those standing for democracy and liberty.