(AGENPARL) – mar 17 dicembre 2024 None [1] Press service ** European Parliament **
Media advisory
17-12-2024 None [2] Sakharov Prize 2024: press conference today at 11.35
EP President Roberta Metsola will hold a press conference with the Sakharov Prize 2024 laureates on Tuesday 17 December at 11.35 CET in Strasbourg.
WHEN*: Tuesday 17 December at 11.35 CET
WHERE*: Press conference room Daphne Caruana Galizia, European Parliament in Strasbourg
The 2024 Sakharov Prize laureates and representatives will be present at the press conference:
– Mr Edmundo González Urrutia*, President-elect of Venezuela
– Mrs Ana Corina Sosa*, daughter and representative of María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuela’s “Unity Democratic Platform”
The award ceremony will take place on Tuesday 17 December at 12.00 in the hemicycle in Strasbourg, after the press conference.
Interpretation will be available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Maltese.
You can follow it live from 11.35 on Tuesday in Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Galizia press room and via Parliament’s webstreaming [3] .
Background*
The European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize 2024 was awarded to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia [4] . European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced the 2024 laureates in the Strasbourg plenary chamber [5] on Thursday 24 October.
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