UK What is the Journal? 📚 | House of Commons

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

đź“– The Journal Office holds a complete record of all decisions made in the House of Commons Chamber since 1547.

đź“” A Journal is created for every Parliament session. Two newly printed and bound Journals have arrived to be added to the shelves.

✍️The Journal is created from a document called Votes and Proceedings which is produced every day by a team of clerks, including Gavin.

Curious to find out more? 👀 You can find Votes and Proceedings by date online ➡️ https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/search?SearchTerm=Votes+and+Proceedings

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UK What are E-Petitions? | House of Commons

Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)

An e-petition is an online petition to the House of Commons or the Government started by a member of the public on the e-petitions website.

E-petitions receive a Government response if they have 10,000 signatures or more. The Petitions Committee considers e-petitions for a debate if they have 100,000 signatures or more.

The Committee will only consider petitions which people have started on the UK Government and Parliament petitions website.

E-petitions stay open for six months, or until the end of the Parliament (whichever comes first), after which they are closed.

Find open, debated, and responded-to petitions, or submit your own, on the e-petitions website: https://petition.parliament.uk/

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President Lagarde presents the latest monetary policy decisions – 5 June 2025

Source: European Central Bank (video statements)

Today our Governing Council decided on monetary policy, determining what’s needed to return inflation to our 2% goal in a timely manner.

Listen to President Christine Lagarde present today’s decisions. The statement also covers:
• how the economy is performing
• how we expect pri¬ces to develop
• the risks to the economic outlook
• the dynamics behind financial and monetary conditions

Our monetary policy statement at a glance, 5 June 2025 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/press_conference/visual-mps/2025/html/mopo_statement_explained_june.en.html

Christine Lagarde, Luis de Guindos: Monetary policy statement, 5 June 2025 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/press_conference/monetary-policy-statement/2025/html/ecb.is250605~f00a36ef2b.en.html

Monetary policy decisions, 5 June 2025 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.mp250605~3b5f67d007.en.html

Combined monetary policy decisions and statement, 5 June 2025 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/press_conference/monetary-policy-statement/shared/pdf/ecb.ds250605~dc79b630e3.en.pdf?1ae87c3b33214537469188411c6fec52

Macroeconomic projections, 5 June 2025 https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/projections/html/ecb.projections202506_eurosystemstaff~16a68fbaf4.en.html

European Central Bank
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html

Published and recorded during our press conference on 5 June 2025

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Focus Session – Non-time critical payments – Business cases for NTC payments

Source: European Central Bank (video statements)

In TIPS, NTC transactions would come in addition to SCT Inst transactions. Examples of possible business cases would be payments whose immediacy is not necessary. Learn more about what advantages this would bring and how NTC payments can benefit PSPs.

Fabrizio Dinacci, Team Lead Market Infrastructure PM, ECB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUXQNeb1sdM

The European Union: 80 years of building peace

Source: Council of the European Union (video statements)

80 years ago, Europe lay in ruins. Out of the rubble, an idea took hold: a united Europe, a Europe of peace. By uniting their coal and steel production, six countries began turning that dream into reality. Over the years, more countries joined and the cooperation intensified. But that dream cannot be taken for granted. It requires constant work – today more than ever.

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Plastic pellets are the second cause of microplastic pollution in seas and oceans!

Source: Council of the European Union (video statements)

And because these small plastic particles look like fish eggs, birds eat them with serious consequences for wildlife as much as for human health.

The EU is setting rules to improve how plastic pellets are handled at all stages of the supply chain.

Goal: reducing unintentional releases of pellets into the environment by up to 74%!

#plasticpollution #microplastics

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