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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
A distinct meeting opens on improving electoral participation of persons with disabilities, followed by an unrelated French‑language segment describing informal, contract‑less work that illustrates everyday social and labour precarity outside a clear institutional setting.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
The second session focuses on ESF+ implementation, with contributors highlighting the role of ESF+/FEAD in food aid, criticising the 14% NRPP social share and projected ESF cuts, warning against over‑centralised NRPP governance, and closing with calls for an autonomous, adequately funded, regionally anchored ESF+ before the meeting’s formal conclusion and next steps.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
Experts, MEPs and national parliamentarians debate ESF+ project experience, defend a standalone and well‑funded ESF+, and raise priorities such as adult learning, child poverty, ageing, regional programmes, simplification and performance‑based risks, culminating in a wrap‑up that urges Council governments to back a separate, people‑centred ESF line.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
Chair Andersson opens the ESF+ interparliamentary meeting, sets out Parliament’s concerns over the 2028‑2034 ESF+ architecture, and the Commission presents the NRPP‑based MFF proposal with a 14% social spending share and multi‑fund design, before Session 1 is formally launched with its objectives and speaking rules.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair opens the interparliamentary committee meeting on the future architecture and priorities of ESF+ for 2028–2034, outlining ESF+’s current €95.1 billion role in implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights, the uneven progress towards 2030 social targets amid cost-of-living, AI and demographic challenges, and raising concerns that the Commission’s proposed 14% social spending requirement would in practice mean a substantial funding reduction.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
Members proceed to vote on compromise amendments and related amendments to the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States, including a narrowly rejected compromise by electronic vote, before adopting the final text via roll-call vote and closing the voting session.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
The committee confirms substitutions, then votes on a series of compromise amendments and amendments to the report on boosting skills and vocational education and training in times of transition, including electronic checks and roll-call votes, and finally adopts the report with a large majority.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair and Lithuanian MEPs report on the EMPL mission to Vilnius, detailing meetings with government, Seimas committees, and social partners on preparations for Lithuania’s upcoming Council presidency, with emphasis on MFF, ESF+, the fair mobility package, the traineeship directive, and social priorities such as quality jobs, housing, child guarantee and mental health at work.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
Delegation members present findings from their mission to the European Labour Authority in Bratislava and a joint Austrian–Slovak labour inspection in Vienna, highlighting ELA’s mandate, links to the forthcoming fair labour mobility package, and practical evidence of bogus self-employment and regulatory loopholes uncovered through inspections.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair opens the EMPL meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, explains interpretation and speech-to-text arrangements, announces a corrigendum to Directive 2025/2450 on European Works Councils under Rule 251(4), notes recent changes in EMPL committee membership, and appoints the rapporteur for the 2027 European Semester INI report.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Presentation of a new own‑initiative proposal under Rule 47 and Article 225 TFEU on protecting minors in work placements, outlining the case for an EU legislative act to end mandatory non‑vocational placements, improve health and safety, and tackle unequal access linked to social background.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Introduction and detailed votes on compromise and individual amendments to the 2028–2034 cohesion fund package, including tight electronic and roll‑call votes on key provisions, culminating in final approval of the cohesion fund proposal with recorded majorities and abstentions.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Sequential voting on EMPL amendments and draft opinion for the 2027 EU general budget, including tie and split votes, followed by final compromise votes and roll‑call adoption of the Pan‑European Personal Pension Product opinion despite notable divisions.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Reopening of the EMPL committee sitting with agenda and rapporteur announcements, followed by initial voting blocks on the CMRD 6 provisional agreement, psychosocial risks and mental health at work, and the budget performance framework amendments and final text adoption.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Minister closes by thanking the committee, underlining Parliament’s democratic mandate, pledging close interinstitutional cooperation throughout the Irish Presidency, and reiterating that EU values underpin its employment and social policy agenda.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the Presidency on timelines and content for the fair labour mobility package, stalled traineeships trilogues, union access and subcontracting transparency (including at data centres), activation policies, early childhood education guidance, the Roma strategic framework, algorithmic management and psychosocial risks, and the Equal Treatment Directive, while also linking the housing crisis to social cohesion and migration narratives; the Minister confirms fair mobility and a stronger ELA as central, stresses jobs and housing for breaking child and intergenerational poverty, highlights Roma and Traveller inclusion, and supports advancing the Equal Treatment Directive and addressing short‑term lets and housing pressures.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Second Q&A block where S&D and Left MEPs press the Presidency on timing and ambition for the Fair Mobility Package, reinforcing the ELA, relaunching traineeships trilogues, and tackling union‑busting and restricted trade union access at complex cross‑border worksites such as data centers.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs press the Presidency on safeguarding robust ESF+ funding, reinforcing the European Child Guarantee, skills and mutual recognition, minimum wage and pay transparency enforcement, an EU anti-poverty strategy and binding standards on heat and cold stress at work, as well as housing in Gaeltacht areas and the balance between competitiveness and social and environmental rights, prompting ministerial replies on budget negotiations, child poverty targets, upskilling, possible EU-level OSH approaches and housing supply measures.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Coordinators question the Presidency on concrete implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the quality jobs roadmap, the future ELA mandate and workers’ rights in Ireland, including trade union and collective bargaining issues, alongside concerns over child homelessness and the housing crisis, to which the Minister responds by framing the Pillar as a policy compass, supporting a stronger ELA and acknowledging housing as a major structural challenge.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
First exchange between MEPs and the Irish Presidency covering implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, the Quality Jobs Roadmap and ELA mandate, followed by questions on ESF+ in the next MFF, the Child Guarantee, anti‑poverty strategy, skills and enforcement of social directives, OSH rules on extreme temperatures, and housing challenges including in Gaeltacht regions, with the Minister detailing planned Council work, events and national measures.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the EMPL session and the Irish Minister for Social Protection presents the Irish Council Presidency’s employment and social affairs priorities, including competitiveness, quality jobs, skills, digitalisation, anti-poverty measures, equality, disability rights and housing-related initiatives within the Union of Equality agenda.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Transition from the housing agenda to the Council Presidency item, with the Chair formally introducing Irish Minister Dara Calleary to present the employment and social affairs priorities of the Irish Presidency, including recent EPSCO context.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens and Left MEPs question the Commission on financing (MFF, ESF+, EIB), lack of binding force and benchmarks, eviction prevention, criminalisation of homelessness, Housing First, data gaps, the EPOCH platform, social housing and income adequacy, while the Commission defends its enabling role, shared competences and safeguards on evictions and monitoring.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Chair Andersson opens the EMPL meeting, introduces the Council recommendation on combating housing exclusion, and the Housing Committee Vice-Chair and Commission set out the scale of the crisis, Parliament’s previous position, and the legal and policy framework of the proposed non-binding tool.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
ETUC delivers a final warning that the proposed EU Inc regulation, as a standalone instrument, weakens worker protections and creates risks around participation, ESOPs and insolvency, while the Commission briefly defends the chosen scope and architecture by referring to its impact assessment and the options it discarded.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Second Q&A round and subsequent expert interventions focus on whether EU Inc should be limited to start‑ups and scale‑ups, the risks of abuse (tax, social fraud, co‑determination avoidance), and the implications of using Article 114 TFEU, with notaries, labour experts and BusinessEurope sharply disagreeing on added value, legal basis, worker participation safeguards and the breadth of the proposed company form.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Notaries, ETUI, BusinessEurope and ETUC respond on ex ante checks, the two‑day deadline, consultation results, the interaction of company law with social and tax law, how to link participation rights to place of employment, whether EU Inc should be stricter than national forms, and opposing views on fraud, money‑laundering and labour‑exploitation risks under a fast, low‑cost EU company form.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs launch the first question round, probing experts on preventive controls, labour‑law and employee‑participation impacts, the need for 48‑hour registration, risks of letterbox companies and administrative dumping, the core objective of EU Inc, potential abuse for fraud and money laundering, and the relationship to existing co‑determination regimes and the original startup‑only petition.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
Stakeholder organisations outline divergent positions on the scope, safeguards and objectives of the EU Inc legal form, followed by consecutive rounds of MEP questions on risks of abuse, labour and codetermination impacts, competitiveness, and legal basis, with expert Malberti assessing control mechanisms, interaction with existing company forms and potential for regulatory arbitrage.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Ordinary meeting
BusinessEurope, ETUC and rapporteur Repasi set out competing views on EU Inc’s purpose, scope and safeguards, contrasting calls for a simple, broad, non‑discriminatory company‑law tool with demands for a narrow startup focus, strong worker‑rights and co‑determination protection, robust insolvency and anti‑fraud rules, and a design that prevents forum shopping while linking standards to the place of economic activity.
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