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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
Presentation of the study on the legal and ethical foundations of EU development policy, followed by MEPs’ concerns over a transactional ‘mutual interest’ turn and a debate with the Commission on ensuring Global Gateway and interest‑driven instruments remain treaty‑compliant and focused on poverty eradication through concrete safeguards, metrics and guardrails.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
WaterAid and Ghanaian experts detail WASH gaps, pollution and utility challenges in Zambia and Ghana and propose EU entry points, followed by MEP questions on Mediterranean risks, governance, financing models, PPPs, community rights and safeguards against water grabbing.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Strategic framing of SDG 6 and EU development roles is followed by the private sector’s perspective on Global Gateway financing and PPPs, then civil society evidence from Zambia on WASH, climate resilience, and the effectiveness of international and EU support. Together, the segment maps institutional approaches, financing instruments and on‑the‑ground challenges for global water governance.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
Chairs, rapporteurs and IFAD set the institutional context of the joint DEVE–ENVI–AFET hearing, present water as a human right and strategic global challenge, and link the debate to the EU Water Resilience Strategy and the 2026 UN Water Conference.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the Commissioner on Gaza, Iran-linked displacement, feminist critiques, Sahrawi refugees, regulatory and performance-based funding concerns, and the European Consensus, with the Commission responding on IHL, the Middle East regional package, Global Europe governance, relations with Gulf humanitarian hubs, MFF needs and closing remarks.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Chair and Commissioner Habib set the humanitarian policy context (triple nexus, IHL, budget pressures and forthcoming communication), followed by the first MEP questions and Commission replies on multilateral funding gaps, nexus implementation, private finance limits and gender/SRHR/LGBTIQ+ mainstreaming and access issues.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Opening of the joint DEVE‑ENVI session, presentation of co‑rapporteurs’ draft SDG implementation report, followed by shadows’ priorities, the Commission’s roadmap towards the 2026 UN HLPF, and procedural clarifications up to meeting closure.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the DEVE agenda point on the Critical Raw Materials Regulation amendment, clarifying Parliament’s associated role, links to the Resource EU action plan, and the focus on large companies’ supply‑chain risk obligations and Commission powers over risk‑mitigation plans.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Vice‑Chair launches the structured dialogue on 2026 external action priorities, with Commissioner Síkela outlining the work programme, fragility and health resilience focus, budget needs and links to Global Gateway, followed by MEPs’ scrutiny of the partnership model, conditionality, migration safeguards, investment tools and the EU’s geopolitical positioning.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
From opening procedures and initial votes to the dedicated humanitarian item, the Chair and UN OCHA set out the deteriorating global context and proposed ‘humanitarian reset’, followed by MEPs’ detailed questions on funding gaps, localisation, USAID cuts and systemic reform and OCHA’s responses plus DG ECHO’s 2026 budget and policy priorities.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur Kolar concludes on migration and the DEV Committee’s remit, followed by the Chair outlining amendment deadlines, vote dates, upcoming joint meetings, and the move to an in camera coordinators’ session.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission explains AMIF’s legal nature as an internal‑policy fund, its limited scope for actions in/with third countries, and the need for complementarity rather than overlap with Global Europe, detailing the three priorities for AMIF’s external dimension (anti‑smuggling, returns/readmissions, legal pathways) and warning against extensive cross‑references and new objectives that would over‑constrain member states.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Political group representatives and members debate solidarity mechanisms, fines and national capacities, deaths at sea, conditionality of aid, labour needs and human‑rights safeguards in partnerships with third countries within the AMIF framework.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair introduces the AMIF legislative opinion and its link to the Pact on Migration and Asylum, followed by DEV rapporteur Kolar’s development‑oriented approach to migration and LIBE rapporteur Mendes’ focus on AMIF’s autonomy, financing level and objectives within national programmes.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the meeting, sets procedural and voting rules, then hears the rapporteur on the DEV opinion for the MFF 2028–2034 before running through the full sequence of electronic votes, concluding with adoption of the opinion and the roll‑call vote on the Fisheries Partnership Protocol with São Tomé and Príncipe.
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