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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING Joint meeting Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Launch of the 2024 Sakharov Prize selection in a joint AFET–DEVE meeting, explaining rules and shortlist, followed by presentation of the first nominee, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya of Palestine, as a symbol of attacks on Gaza’s health system and broader humanitarian law violations.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING Joint meeting Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Report‑back from the European Parliament delegation to the UN HLPF on SDGs, MEP reactions on corruption and Global Gateway, and Commission input on SDG‑related priorities such as water resilience, circular economy and future UN summits.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair and Lukas Mandl present the mandate, composition and UN contacts of the joint DEVE–ENVI delegation to the HLPF, followed by members’ reactions and the Commission’s assessment on SDG effectiveness, financing, governance and multilateral engagement, before closing the agenda item and announcing next steps.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING Joint meeting Subcommittee on Tax Matters
MEP questions, Commission responses and experts’ final remarks on strengthening domestic revenue mobilisation, addressing illicit flows and profit shifting, assessing OECD BEPS and Pillar Two, and defining the EU’s stance towards the UN framework convention on international tax cooperation.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
An S&D MEP opens the political Q&A by stressing how illicit financial flows and tax evasion in Africa exceed aid volumes, undermine development finance and basic services, and require stronger tax systems and technical cooperation.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting HEARING Joint meeting Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Opening of the joint DEVE–FISC hearing on taxation and SDGs, expert presentations on OECD/Global Forum work, African and civil-society perspectives, and a focus on the emerging UN tax convention and its implications for EU policy and development cooperation.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair launches the joint DEVE–FISC session on taxation and sustainable development, then OECD Global Forum, ATAF and Christian Aid experts present evidence on tax transparency, African tax gaps, profit shifting via EU jurisdictions and the case for stronger domestic resource mobilization and a UN tax convention, with specific recommendations for EU policy.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
DG ECHO, EEAS and DG INTPA outline EU humanitarian diplomacy, support for ICC/ICJ, disarmament, funding for multilateralism and internal coordination gaps, before Strada stresses the need to match EU rhetoric with concrete actions and the chair confirms the amendment deadline and vote schedule, closing the item.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Strada details proposals on accountability for IHL violations, protection of humanitarian space, and disarmament treaties, after which EPP, S&D and Renew positions are presented, highlighting support for the opinion, concerns about overloading development policy, and calls to defend the ICC and reinforce multilateral and development objectives in EU instruments and budgets.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the DEVE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and introduces Rapporteur Strada’s opinion on international law, multilateralism, democracy and the EU, followed by her initial diagnosis of the crisis in the multilateral order and citizens’ loss of trust.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Commission sets out the EU’s priorities on improving the G20 Common Framework, extending principles to middle‑income countries, supporting IMF–World Bank liquidity initiatives and debt transparency tools, after which the Chair closes the public agenda item and opens the in‑camera coordinators’ meeting, adopting the agenda and announcing the new Sakharov Prize vote date.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
UNCTAD and AFRODAD respond by explaining bilateral and Chinese roles in the debt architecture, the growth–security link, historical precedents and export‑earnings constraints, and by detailing the limits and opacity of debt‑for‑nature swaps and Chinese commercial lending while reiterating the case for stronger transparency and a UN debt convention.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs Bullmann and Jongen and Chair Andrews question the experts on what concrete steps the EU should take on debt reduction and structural reform, illicit financial flows, project viability and taxpayer risks, Chinese lending and its treatment in restructurings, debt‑for‑nature swaps, and the impact of EU tariffs on African public finances.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
AFRODAD outlines Africa’s rising and increasingly commercial public debt, domestic debt vulnerabilities and the Zambia case, criticises the limited relief and social impacts of current restructuring tools including the G20 Common Framework, and calls for EU support to a binding UN‑level sovereign debt mechanism following the Seville process.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair frames the agenda item around shifting from grants to loans and SDG‑related debt sustainability, then UNCTAD presents data on global debt ratios, worsening net transfers, higher borrowing costs for developing countries and policy recommendations on concessional finance, liquidity tools and borrower coordination.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
Satouri closes by linking human rights to economic development, underlining the need for credible, well-financed Global Europe instruments to support poverty eradication and human rights in Africa.
Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
De Schutter answers MEPs on indicators, debt-for-social-protection swaps and country-led strategies, while DG INTPA and EEAS set out the EU’s development, Global Gateway and human-rights-based external action approaches to poverty eradication.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi outlines Africa’s ‘growth with depth’ needs, presents ACET’s Transformation Index, and calls for EU–Africa relations that support regional production, the AfCFTA, long-term transformation finance, and mutually agreed priorities.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
Following technical problems with the second expert, the chair opens an initial round of MEP questions focusing on multidimensional poverty metrics, corruption safeguards, health systems, ODA priorities, debt swaps, and the distributional impacts of EU-led growth models.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
Olivier De Schutter presents the UN ‘beyond GDP’ roadmap, explains why growth has failed to eradicate poverty, and proposes international economic reforms on debt, taxation, monetary arrangements and social protection to create policy space for developing countries.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Subcommittee on Human Rights
Chairs Andrews and Satouri formally open the agenda item, frame the debate around moving beyond GDP towards a human-rights-based development model, and introduce the invited experts and their mandates.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair formally closes the GAP III gender item while relaying the committee’s concern on removing targets, then reconvenes for item 8 in joint session with the Human Rights Subcommittee, where both Chairs frame the debate on economic growth, SDG 8 and poverty eradication as a question of development model and human rights obligations before giving the floor to invited experts.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The expert answers MEPs by identifying major gender gaps in Global Gateway and innovative finance and by defending strong binding targets, including an 85‑20‑5 approach, after which the Commission reports on progress under GAP III, explains the rationale of the post‑2027 Global Europe proposal with fewer explicit targets but gender mainstreaming obligations, and pledges to sustain a high level of ambition across instruments.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The co‑rapporteur sets out Parliament’s political priorities for an ambitious GAP IV and the defence of binding gender targets, followed by MEPs’ questions and contrasting views on targets, implementation in specific countries and sectors, indicators of structural change, and the legitimacy and scope of EU‑funded gender equality projects, with additional concerns raised by the Chair on the signal sent by dropping targets and the classification of Global Gateway projects.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens item 7 and invites the external expert to present key findings on the EU twin‑track approach to gender in development, detailed case studies on mainstreaming limits and structural impact, the role and scarcity of G2 targeted actions, and concrete recommendations for Parliament on binding targets, traceability and support to women’s organisations in the future Global Europe and GAP IV framework.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The session opens with testimony from MSF, the European Commission and the Ukrainian Health Ministry on systematic attacks against healthcare and the EU/Ukraine health response, followed by MEPs’ questions and detailed replies from MSF, EEAS and Commission services on patterns of IHL violations, accountability, solidarity mechanisms and support to Ukraine’s health system under EU instruments.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Acting WFP Executive Director reports on frontline operations and risks in Ukraine and the wider global food security crisis, then answers MEPs’ questions on aid efficiency, donor conditionality, climate and fertilizer shocks, and coordination with EU and UN reforms until the Chair suspends the meeting.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Coordinators and MEPs question the Irish Presidency on protecting Global Europe and Heading 3 in the MFF, use of NDICI for migration and external action, conflict drivers, arms exports and aid conditionality, while the Minister sets out Ireland’s negotiating role, red lines and thematic priorities.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the DEVE meeting, adopts the agenda and opinions, and introduces the incoming Irish Council Presidency, followed by Minister Richmond’s presentation of the Presidency’s development, humanitarian and external funding priorities for the mandate.
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Committee on Development Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur Goerens’ statement and shadow rapporteurs set out Parliament’s positions on defending development and humanitarian lines versus rising migration‑management spending, while the Commission defends flexibility and higher migration‑related allocations, DG ECHO underscores concrete humanitarian impacts of any reinforcements, and the chair closes by confirming amendment deadlines and procedural next steps.
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