(Strasbourg) Today is the award ceremony for the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and democracy in Strasbourg. President Roberta Metsola will award the Prize to journalists Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia. Both laureates are imprisoned in their respective countries and will be represented by others during the ceremony. The day at the European Parliament will open with a new law banning imports of Russian natural gas to protect the EU’s energy security from weaponisation by the Russian Federation. The vote will take place tomorrow. Defence mobility and readiness: two reports, on military mobility and on defence readiness, will be the subject of a joint debate with Commissioners Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Henna Virkkunen. MEPs will vote on the reports tomorrow. MEPs will then consider a European Citizens’ Initiative on “safe and accessible” abortion in a debate starting at around 17.30. Tomorrow at noon, they will vote on a related draft resolution calling on the Commission to “establish an opt-in financial mechanism to enable participating EU countries to provide access for women from other member states to safe abortions”. At noon, MEPs will vote, among others, on: a request to fast track the Commission proposal to establish the Reparations Loan to Ukraine; a text agreed with member states to simplify the common agricultural policy rules; and a first reading agreement on the ReArm EU omnibus.