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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the 2027 budget item with concerns over shifts in NDICI–Global Europe and the emergency reserve, and DG INTPA and DG ECHO outline implementation performance, Global Gateway priorities, the very limited Heading 6 margin, and the need to protect a predictable humanitarian budget amid record global needs and programme cuts.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the panel on protection of civilians and staff, sustainable humanitarian access, illegal taxation, root causes linked to natural resources and foreign companies, Ebola risks and US policies, and the UN, ECHO and MSF respond on current funding, targeted preparedness, governance failures, joint advocacy strategies and accountability for attacks on health care.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair introduces a dedicated hearing on South Sudan, followed by detailed briefings from the UN Deputy SRSG, DG ECHO and MSF on the scale of needs, under‑funding, access constraints, violence against civilians and aid workers, Ebola importation risks, and the collapse of health services, alongside EU funding levels and civil protection actions.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The committee resumes with a presentation of the DEVE mission to Mozambique, where the head and members of the delegation describe security, displacement, child marriage, LNG‑related grievances and Global Gateway projects, and the chair and Commission link these to NDICI–Global Europe priorities while proposing a plenary debate and resolution to anchor follow‑up on human development, gender and Ebola preparedness.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the DEVE meeting, confirms procedural arrangements and then leads a sequence of electronic and show‑of‑hands votes on the Civil Protection Mechanism opinion, the resolution on strengthening global health resilience, and the resolution on the joint communication on humanitarian aid, including compromise, split and roll‑call votes and final adoption results.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
In a later sitting, the Chair opens a new DEVE meeting, confirms quorum, adopts the agenda and minutes, and announces webstreaming and available interpretation languages for that session.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair presents the new humanitarian aid joint communication and expectations, DG ECHO and EEAS outline the ‘Protect, Perform, Partner’ priorities and humanitarian diplomacy approach, followed by MEP questions on geopolitics, neighbourhood, private sector and ODA, with DG INTPA, DG ECHO and EEAS explaining implementation, trade‑offs and accountability before the Chair closes the item and meeting.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair introduces the study on energy transition and indigenous rights, the authors present legal frameworks, case studies and recommendations, MEPs question them on best practices, FPIC and ILO 169, and the Commission details existing human‑rights due‑diligence, monitoring and grievance tools while discussing implementation challenges and violence risks.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the DEVE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then moves to the Erasmus+ 2028–2034 draft opinion with the rapporteur’s presentation and proceeds through compromise and individual amendments, concluding with the final roll‑call adoption and two roll‑call votes on oral questions on humanitarian aid and global health to plenary.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Members set out political positions on revising the OCT–EU association and increased funding, followed by the Commission’s proposed amendments, procedural deadlines and formal closure of the meeting.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Experts from IFAD, FAO and ECDPM outline the food security impacts of the Middle East crisis, fertilizer and energy shocks and strategic dependencies, after which MEPs question them on EU instruments and policy choices and EEAS, INTPA and ECHO detail the Union’s diplomatic, development and humanitarian response and planned fragility agenda.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
DEVE, together with BUDG and CONT, discusses the draft opinion on the EU performance framework regulation, debating external action indicators, administrative burden and sustainability tracking, followed by Commission clarifications on evaluation rules and the timetable for amendments and votes.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The committee opens its sitting, adopts the agenda, holds the votes on the reports on development cooperation/irregular migration and transnational water governance, then hears Hölvényi’s protest on the conduct of negotiations and Bullmann’s request to review report procedures at coordinators’ level.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Workshop
The Commission defends a flexible, case‑by‑case approach to eligibility, strategic interests, beneficial ownership and ECA use within an ODA‑centred framework, followed by experts’ nuanced replies on costs, human rights, China, aid‑for‑trade limits and risks of sliding into tied aid, before the Chair formally closes the workshop and outlines remaining committee business and the next meeting.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Workshop
Under the new Chair, MEPs Biedroń, Goerens and the Greens raise questions on additionality, exclusions of global players, defending untying amid geo-economic rivalry, Parliament’s limited oversight, and whether ECA involvement should be kept outside ODA budgets to protect poverty‑reduction objectives.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Workshop
Dr Schlögl presents Article 23 support channels, evidence on tied aid, de facto European preference in current practice and the proposed role and risks of ECAs, while the Chair highlights political concerns on member state disparities, commercially viable projects and governance conditions for using ECAs.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Workshop
The Chair opens the Global Europe workshop on European preference and ECAs, then Professor La Chimia analyses Article 20’s structure, broad exceptions and implications of tied aid for costs, competition, recipient ownership and OECD/DAC commitments, proposing safeguards and clearer limits on the use of exceptions.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Workshop
Initial remarks frame the humanitarian aid and civil protection instrument, its civil–military cooperation aspects and need for low bureaucracy, followed by the Chair’s procedural conclusion of the item with an updated amendment deadline and brief suspension.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Rapporteurs, Commission and MEPs examine the recast Union Civil Protection Mechanism and linked health preparedness rules alongside the revision of Global Europe/NDICI, focusing on external action, crisis coordination, eligibility and derogations under Articles 20 and 23, risks of re‑tying aid, and tensions between geopolitical aims and poverty‑eradication objectives.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
DG ECHO presents the new Protect Aid Workers instrument and plans to mainstream it, PAW partners and a survivor describe rising risks, structural risk transfer and mental‑health needs, and MEPs question neutrality, UNRWA, insurance and the balance of protection between local and international staff.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
WFP and Lebanese civil society outline food insecurity, access constraints, mass displacement and attacks on civilians and responders, while the Commission and MEPs debate EU funding, political inaction, IHL violations and possible use of human‑rights clauses, with further exchanges on access mechanisms and the risk of a Gaza‑like scenario.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
DG ECHO briefs MEPs on forced evictions in Makoko, Lagos and the EU’s humanitarian stance, followed by the chair’s detailed political framing of the Lebanon crisis and an opening intervention stressing cuts in aid, displacement, civilian casualties and the need to uphold international humanitarian law.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair reopens the DEV meeting, adjusts the agenda, and leads successive electronic votes on the committee’s opinions regarding critical raw materials and the termination of the Liberia–EU FLEGT VPA, including amendments, compromise packages and final roll‑call results.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Opening item 5 through to its conclusion, experts (Lancet, WHO) and the Commission present evidence on mortality impacts of ODA and abrupt aid cuts, MEPs question the effectiveness and targeting of EU health ODA, and institutions and WHO outline responses focused on system resilience, gradual transitions and the EU’s role in global health governance.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
From the adoption of the agenda to the end of item 4, the committee frames the upcoming EU humanitarian communication and MFF/Global Europe negotiations, hears VOICE’s priorities on needs, principles, funding models and a ‘humanitarian reset’, and debates with MEPs and the Commission on humanitarian diplomacy, localization, flexibility and the EU’s overall humanitarian approach.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The author analyses how political language legitimises divergent EU development objectives and calls for clear parliamentary guardrails, then briefly concludes on the legal-historical legacy of EU development policy before the chair closes the meeting and announces the coordinators’ follow-up discussion.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
MEP Bullmann insists on empirical proof, inequality markers and strong evaluation of the 360° approach, followed by the author’s response endorsing an integrated model while warning that Global Europe may dilute poverty‑reduction and development objectives without clear parliamentary guardrails.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission justifies a shift toward reciprocal, interest‑aware partnerships centred on investment and infrastructure, defends Global Gateway and private‑finance mobilisation as SDG‑compatible, stresses continuing treaty‑based poverty objectives and ESG standards, and signals partial disagreement with the study’s recommendations.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
MEP Bullmann and the chair react to the study, warning against manipulative political language, erosion of the poverty‑eradication focus and rising industrial self‑interest, and question whether Parliament’s legislative and scrutiny powers are sufficient under current implementation arrangements.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Opening of the agenda point, mandate of the foundations study and full presentation by the external author on the legal bases, geopolitical context, analytical matrix, policy‑coherence risks, investment shift and recommended guardrails for EU development policy.
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