MEP Tonino Picula warned that the current visa stickers are not in line with security standards and that is causing counterfeiting, during today's debate on mini plennary session in Brussels.

The only real step forward in fulfilling the conditions for Schengen in the last two years, is becoming a part of a common information system. Still, MEP Tonino Picula does not fear that Croatia will have the fate of Bulgaria and Romania.

Third meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Stabilization and Association of the EU and Kosovo (SAPC) was held on April 20 and 21 in Pristina, co-chaired by MEP Tonino Picula, Head of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with BiH and Kosovo.

How will Turkey look like after the referendum? What can we expect in relations with the United States and Russia and whether this is the end of Turkey's entry into the EU - those were the topics of the show Otvoreno with guests: MEP Tonino Picula, prof.dr.sc. Vlatko Cvrtila, Dean of Vern University, prof.dr.dc. Dejan Jović from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and Vlado Vurušić, journalist from Jutarnji list.

Member of the European Parliament Tonino Picula sent a priority question to the European Commission about measures they are going to take to avoid crowds at border crossing points, that have emerged with beginning of the regulation controls on external borders.

Implementation of the EU directive on the systematic control of all citizens when entering and leaving the Schengen area began today so we can expect high traffic on border crossings. We need to support these proposals because they bring us greater security, but Croatia must not be discriminated in this process, by any EU Member State...

Growing Stevia is not prohibited, nor the use of an artificial sweetener that comes from this plant, but it is not allowed for sale in stores - nor leaves or the green powder. MEP Tonino Picula reacted to the European Commission, trying to change these regulations.

On the occasion of World Water Day, there was a very interesting and meaningful panel discussion in the European Parliamention which gathered islanders from several European countries and marked the formal beginning of the Project of water management on the islands, called "Water saving challenge." The recently completed "island panel" is the result of MEP's Tonino Picula work, who is also the co-founder of the EP Intergroup for Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal areas.

Representatives of 8 small islands from Croatia, France, Greece and Ireland, had the opportunity to hear about many examples of efficient water management but also to exchange experiences and open new channels of their future knowledge exchange, during the island debate in the European Parliament.