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MEPs question the Commission on sex-disaggregated health data, platform accountability, the European Care Deal, abortion-related initiatives, migration and violence, and gender budgeting, with final Commissioner replies on women’s health, EU competences, consent education, intersectionality and funding, and the Chair’s institutional wrap‑up.
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Coordinators and MEPs from the main political groups set out their positions and concerns on cyberviolence, SRHR, consent-based rape laws, care policies, funding and the gender pay gap, followed by the Commissioner’s detailed responses on digital violence tools, consent law mapping, pay transparency enforcement and gender-responsive budgeting.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Commissioner details the strategy’s main priorities: combating gender‑based and online violence via the new directive, DSA enforcement and a cyberbullying plan; addressing gender bias in health systems and enabling ESF+ support for access to safe abortion; closing pay and pension gaps and boosting women’s economic empowerment, research and innovation roles; and increasing women’s participation and safety in politics while countering anti‑gender narratives in EU external action and at the UN. The Chair responds by pointing to internal EU disparities, notably on abortion and intersectionality, and opens the coordinators’ Q&A round, starting with an EPP call to focus on measurable results.
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Opening of the FEMM structured dialogue with Commissioner Lahbib, setting the institutional and geopolitical context and outlining the main priorities, instruments and implementation challenges of the forthcoming 2026–2030 Gender Equality Strategy.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the structured dialogue with Commissioner Labib, connecting the CSW70 experience and AI‑driven misogyny to the need for reinforced EU action, and sets expectations for the 2026–2030 Gender Equality Strategy and related initiatives and funding. The Commissioner outlines the broader crisis context, past legislative gains, and the roadmap function of the new strategy, including engaging men and boys, as a basis for cooperation with Parliament.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
MEPs from EPP and S&D draw lessons from CSW70 on access to justice, digital violence (including AI and deepfakes), funding and visa barriers for CSOs, and the growing organised anti‑gender backlash, notably from the US. They call for stronger, more consistent EU political and financial leadership on gender equality globally, after which the Chair closes the debrief by underlining expectations on the EU and the need to maintain a strong EP presence at future CSW sessions.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair formally opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and written coordinators’ decisions, and presents the context, themes and EU institutional role in the CSW70 negotiations in New York, including key UN‑level meetings and funding concerns. She assesses the CSW70 conclusions, the unprecedented vote, rising anti‑gender pushback and disinformation, and the overall impact of the Parliament’s delegation.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The chair reiterates condemnation of rape as a weapon of war, signals the forthcoming vote on the Cyprus resolution, formally closes the committee meeting, and organises the transition to the subsequent coordinators’ meeting.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
S&D and Renew MEPs situate the Cyprus sexual violence cases within international legal instruments and EU obligations, argue for consent‑based rape definitions and victim support, and refer to concrete survivor testimonies from the FEM mission, including calls to adopt the resolution on the anniversary of the 1974 invasion as a step toward recognition and healing.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The chair closes the menopause item, introduces the agenda point on the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus on women and girls, recalls the FEM mission to Nicosia, and gives the floor to rapporteur Meleti to present the draft resolution giving voice to victims of rape as a weapon of war and calling for EU recognition, support and accountability.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Experts respond on hormone replacement therapy safety, the impact of past studies on public and professional fear, the need to integrate menopause into medical education and reimbursement systems, and appropriate workplace measures, while the chairs close the menopause item and call for sustained EU‑level policy work and a dedicated report.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
MEPs outline stigma and positive reframing of menopause, stress global prevalence, underfunding of women’s health, workplace impacts and best‑practice legislation, and raise issues of early menopause, diverse symptoms, medical gaslighting, perimenopause, national strategies and competitiveness implications, calling for concrete EU and member state action.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Chairs open the joint SANT–FEM coordinators’ debate on menopause, set speaking order, and coordinators frame menopause as an overlooked EU policy and health issue, raising questions on cardiovascular risk links, socio‑economic costs, and the scope of the forthcoming European Parliament report.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair draws political conclusions from the survey debate, stresses the role of scientific evidence against gender‑based violence and misinformation, calls for stronger political commitment, and formally closes the morning FEMM session.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Experts present the 2024 EU‑wide survey on gender‑based violence, followed by exchanges with MEPs on structural male violence, survey robustness, under‑reporting and how the data should inform consent‑based rape legislation and victim‑centred EU and national policies.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
From the opening of the FEMM meeting through ESF+, AGORA EU, the performance framework and Global Europe, Members and experts assess how post‑2027 EU funding architecture, flexibility and tracking rules risk weakening gender mainstreaming, earmarked funding and SRHR targets, and debate options to maintain binding gender objectives and accountability across programmes.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
MEPs and national MPs present national measures, legal gaps and differing views on regulation, anonymity, resource allocation and engagement of men and boys, stressing democracy and human‑rights stakes; panelists respond on security risks, risks of authoritarian overreach and the need for feminist tech governance and public infrastructure, before EIGE and the Chair close with key takeaways, consent and youth research, and practical next steps for the EU’s work on digital violence against women.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair steers the discussion to platform responsibilities, with Microsoft detailing AI‑amplified deepfake pornography, the StopNCII partnership and the need to align corporate practice with EU law, followed by EIGE’s evidence on cyber‑harassment and its impact on women’s participation in democracy, linking survey data to demands for stronger platform accountability, remedies and prevention measures.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
After recalling her own online attacks, the Chair convenes a panel of experts: a Polish journalist on coordinated cyberbullying and gendered disinformation driving women from public life, a former Georgian MP on gender narratives as hybrid warfare and an EU enlargement security issue, and an academic who characterises technology‑facilitated gender‑based violence as structural and proposes feminist, survivor‑centred regulatory priorities.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair links EU debates to external policy and invites UN Women Brussels, which outlines shrinking civic space, global trends of online violence against women in politics and media, under‑reporting and weak remedies, highlights EU legislation as a reference, and analyses transnationally funded anti‑rights movements while urging stronger EU accountability, multilateralism and feminist partnerships in key external instruments.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
The Chair introduces the Commissioner for Equality, who presents the new Gender Equality Strategy and details EU legislative and enforcement tools against online and technology‑facilitated violence, including the Violence Against Women Directive, DSA obligations and the European Democracy Shield, with emphasis on national transposition and education on consent and stereotypes.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting ICM
Formal opening of the joint FEMM meeting for International Women’s Day, adoption of the agenda, explanation of speaking rules and logistics, and initial political framing of democracy, women’s rights and rising digital violence, leading into President Metsola’s institutional message on the new EU directive and online abuse.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
The Chair confirms the date and time of the next FEMM committee meeting, then addresses a member’s request to make the Commission’s automated transcription and QR-code accessibility system permanent, noting current capacity limits but expressing support before formally closing the sitting.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
The committee votes on compromise and individual amendments, including roll‑call and electronic checks, to adopt FEMM opinions on the 2027 EU budget guidelines (Section III) and on the interim report for the 2028–2034 multiannual financial framework.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
Rapporteur presents the report on the impact of social media and the online environment on young people, focusing on online gender‑based violence and platform obligations, followed by voting on compromise and individual amendments and adoption of the final report.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
Chair opens the FEMM meeting, confirms substitutions, presents the voting agenda, and moves to the first legislative file on women’s entrepreneurship in rural, island and outermost regions, with the rapporteur’s introduction and full amendment and final roll‑call votes.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Kelleher presents extensive amendments and a solutions‑oriented scope for the women’s health report, political groups clash over SRHR, ‘gender ideology’ versus sex‑based approaches and structural discrimination, and the rapporteur defends an evidence‑based, rights‑focused text as the chair confirms the calendar for compromises and votes.
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The chair introduces the performance regulation as a key tool for gender budgeting, and the Commission explains the proposed horizontal framework to track expenditure and results on climate, social and gender equality objectives across all MFF programmes.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Commission’s proposal for a single performance and gender‑tracking system under the post‑2027 MFF is scrutinised by co‑rapporteurs and FEMM members, who probe indicators, methodology, data gaps, links to sectoral acts and alleged ‘ideology’, while the Commission defends the OECD‑based marker and promises common guidance and improved data collection.
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The FEMM chair opens the dedicated session and mandate on the Global Europe external financing instrument, with the rapporteur and political groups setting out contrasting views on restoring gender targets, SRHR and women’s rights funding, followed by the rapporteur’s defence of gender objectives and the procedural calendar for amendments and votes.
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