Jana Toom’s Week: The Strasbourg Heat In the language of the European Parliament, these weeks are called “Strasbourg sessions”—as a reminder, it is in this French city that a plenary sessi... 02/05/2026 Jana Toom’s Week: The Long-Awaited Trilogue For me, the highlight of the week was the negotiations over the Directive on the Coordination of Social Security Systems, which took place on Wednesda... 25/04/2026 Jana Toom’s Week: Cities on the Frontline The highlight of the past week was a conference aimed at securing funding from the European Commission for major cities, including those in Estonia, t... 14/04/2026 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 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 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 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 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 « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »