OREANDA-NEWS. MEPs will give their input to the upcoming EU summit in a debate on the future Energy Union with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Latvian Secretary of State for European Affairs Kalni?a-Luka?evica, on Wednesday starting at 09.00. At the 19-20 March summit in Brussels, EU heads of state or government are likely to discuss the future energy union with a focus on its security dimension.

Other topics likely to be debated in Parliament include EU relations with Russia and the situation in Ukraine as well as the preparations for the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga (Latvia) at the end of May.

The debate will followed by a discussion with Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis and Commissioners Marianne Thyssen and El?bieta Bie?kowska on “European Semester” coordination of EU countries’ economic policies in 2015.

You can watch the plenary debate via EP Live, and EbS+.