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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
After formal closure of the DEVE–FEMM proceedings, the recording captures informal partisan messaging and staff logistical exchanges that carry no institutional or policy decisions.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Co‑rapporteurs briefly synthesise key themes from the GAP IV debate, emphasise common ground on funding and core priorities, and the chairs formally adjourn the joint DEVE–FEMM meeting.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Patriots’ criticism and the chair’s ruling on xenophobic language highlight procedural limits on hate speech, while Renew, Greens, the Left and ESN articulate divergent views on forced marriage, FGM, feminist and intersectional approaches, women, peace and security, Global Gateway safeguards and scrutiny of past gender‑related spending.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
EPP and S&D shadows set out priorities for GAP IV, including monitoring and accountability, disability inclusion, care policies, ambitious SDG 5‑related ODA targets, SRHR and gender budgeting, and stronger, better‑funded support for local women’s rights organisations.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair closes the SRHR hearing and opens the joint DEVE–FEMM session on GAP IV, with the FEMM chair and co‑rapporteurs framing the action plan as a treaty‑based, strategic response to global gender backlash, funding cuts and the need to mainstream gender equality and SRHR in EU external action.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The co‑rapporteur, political group representatives and IPPF link US cuts and Council‑driven NDICI reductions to concrete SRHR risks, defend ambitious gender and SRHR targets in Global Europe and GAP IV, and the Commission explains how SRHR commitments and potential numerical gender targets can be embedded in GAP IV implementation.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Civil society speakers from DRC and Venezuela detail conflict‑related sexual violence, service gaps and the impact of US funding interruptions and conditionality on local SRHR providers, appealing to the EU for flexible, sustained support to protect women, girls and LGBTQI+ communities.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
In the context of Gender Equality Week, stakeholders outline the impact of global SRHR funding cuts before a joint DEVE–FEMM debate on the Gender Action Plan IV for external action, where co-rapporteurs and members contest funding targets, SRHR priorities and non-discrimination provisions within NDICI–Global Europe.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
After the break, the Chair opens agenda item 12 on how global funding cuts affect SRHR, especially for women’s organisations in fragile contexts, and introduces UNFPA and Commission speakers in the framework of Gender Equality Week and EU external instruments. UNFPA outlines the SRHR funding crisis, concrete service reductions and the importance of the Supplies Partnership, while the Commission presents the EU’s SRHR policy framework, data on persistent access gaps and the need to translate political commitments into sustained, country‑led financing under shrinking development budgets and anti‑SRHR pushback.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair opens Gender Equality Week’s SRHR item, and UNFPA plus the European Commission outline the global rollback on SRHR funding, its humanitarian consequences, and the EU’s legal commitments, instruments and multilateral partnerships to sustain SRHR and GBV services worldwide.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
The standing rapporteur concludes by urging cross‑party defence of education budgets for African children despite corruption concerns, thanking speakers and formally closing the hearing. Chair Biedroń then condemns proposed Global Europe and Sub‑Saharan Africa cuts, highlights missed human development targets, calls for committee unity to oppose reductions that would harm education, and announces a short break.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
MEPs Bullmann and Gosiewska press for defending the 10% education share within Global Europe and Global Gateway, request stronger governance and oversight tools, and question how EU funding reaches small local and faith‑based providers amid domestic reform needs and corruption risks. An African minister explains mutual accountability structures (sector groups, annual reviews, decentralised management), Father Kitima reiterates the need to support pro‑poor religious schools, and the Commission details the role of CSOs and faith‑based actors within Global Gateway and country‑level cooperation frameworks.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
The Chair introduces Father Kitima, who describes the Catholic Church’s complementary education role in Tanzania, post‑nationalisation evolution, current school and university provision, and support for poor students and skills development, while valuing EU academic exchanges. He calls for human‑rights‑based partnerships, anti‑corruption conditionality and support for democracy, after which DG ECHO presents education‑in‑emergencies funding in Sub‑Saharan Africa and its nexus with longer‑term development efforts.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Commission adviser Lorenzo details EU financial commitments to education via Global Gateway, GPE and other initiatives, emphasising domestic revenue mobilisation and a strong post-2027 budget, while Hölvényi highlights implementation down to school level and Father Kitima illustrates the Tanzanian Catholic Church’s substantial and complementary role in providing values-based education and higher education access.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
The rapporteur reacts by underlining education as a long‑term investment before the Commission outlines DG INTPA’s current education allocations, priorities and Global Gateway linkages, including focus on teachers, governance, inclusion and employability. The Commission further details multilevel initiatives (GPE, Education Cannot Wait, regional teacher schemes, country programmes) and stresses domestic revenue mobilisation, fair tax systems and Parliament’s role in securing a strong external budget for education in the next MFF.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Minister Thiam presents Africa’s demographic pressures and inclusion challenges, explains national choices to prioritise and domestically finance education (with GPE pledges and the Senegal example), and calls on the EU to back more effective, equitable education financing and maintain at least 10% of development spending for education, which Hölvényi frames as a long-term stability investment.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
GPE representative Serigne Mbaye Thiam presents Sub‑Saharan demographic pressures, GPE’s strategy to strengthen inclusive education systems and domestic financing, and the Senegal model of state–religious provider partnership. He details partner country pledges, emphasises aid quality and alignment with national priorities, and calls on the EU to maintain at least 10% of development spending for education and support partner‑led reforms and multilateral mechanisms.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
The Chair and standing rapporteur open the DEVE hearing on domestic resource mobilisation for education in Sub‑Saharan Africa, set its objectives, link it to the committee’s report, and frame key political issues including limits of EU aid, data gaps and the central role of faith‑based providers. They stress African ownership, domestic commitments and the need to integrate major non‑state education actors into EU development cooperation.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair and rapporteur Hölvényi open the hearing on domestic resource mobilisation for education in Sub-Saharan Africa, link it to the DEVE own-initiative report, describe severe but varied system challenges, and stress political will, reliable data, African budgetary commitment and the under-recognised role of faith-based providers.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
DG INTPA and DG ECHO outline EU education support within Global Gateway and humanitarian policy, including innovative financing, domestic resource mobilisation and a 10% humanitarian EiE commitment, after which Hölvényi and the Chair conclude with the need for compromises, coordination with CULT and the amendment deadline.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Shadow rapporteurs from EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew and ENS set out their priorities on teacher investment, geographic focus, gender equality, fragile contexts, domestic resource mobilisation, the role of faith-based and NGO providers, ideological red lines and the use and monitoring of existing EU instruments.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the item on long-term EU education cooperation and rapporteur Hölvényi presents the strategic context, funding figures and gravity of the education crisis, warning of systemic risks and calling for clearer benchmarks, domestic financing and sustained EU budget commitments.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
After technical and interpretation checks, the committee resumes to debate the long-term EU development cooperation strategy on education and then holds a public hearing on domestic resource mobilisation for education in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining EU instruments, Global Gateway links and the role of local and faith-based actors.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Members review DEVE’s opinion and AFET’s report on the EU’s Horn of Africa strategy, then debrief the DEVE mission to Bolivia with EEAS and DG INTPA, addressing governance, security, migration, natural resources and future cooperation within the EU’s external action framework.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The committee adopts its agenda and votes on opinions and reports before holding a substantial debate with the Commission on the draft own-initiative report about tackling child poverty through EU development cooperation, focusing on rights-based approaches, conflict contexts and amendment timelines.
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Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting
The Chair confirms there is no other business, thanks members for the smooth conduct of the meeting, and announces the next meeting will be on 19 October in Strasbourg with joint votes with the AFET committee.
Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting
The Chair conducts a series of show-of-hands votes on compromise amendments 1–10 (all carried), followed by amendment 56 (verified by electronic vote and rejected), and then holds a roll-call final vote on the amended report, which is adopted with 17 votes in favour, 2 against and 2 abstentions.
Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting
The Chair thanks shadow rapporteurs and the secretariat, then conducts a test of the electronic voting system using a light-hearted question on the re-election of the Spanish government, declaring a statistical tie and using his casting vote to ‘re-elect’ the Spanish government before proceeding to the substantive vote.
Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting
Chair Barry ANDREWS opens the extraordinary DEVE meeting, confirms adoption of the draft agenda without changes, and outlines that the sole purpose is to vote on the draft report amending Decision (EU) 2021/1764 on association of overseas countries and territories, including Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, noting the absence of interpretation and English-only proceedings.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Co‑Chair Bentele and David McAllister open the joint AFET–DEVE–DROI meeting on the Sakharov Prize, outline procedural rules and then hear structured presentations of five nominations, covering targeted health workers in Gaza, security policies in El Salvador, the ICC under US sanctions, democratic opposition in Tanzania, and repression of protesters in Iran.
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