Plenary Round-up - Strasbourg, December 2024
In this plenary round-up: Romania and Bulgaria will officially join the Schengen free-movement area on 1 January 2025; Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addresses MEPs; the award ceremony of the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought; the European Parliament approves faster disaster recovery funding; and the election of the new European Ombudsman. Highlights.