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The Commission coordinator, Judge Díaz, GRETA and Europol respond on the July 15 transposition deadline, referral mechanisms, demand‑side offences, child and victim‑centred protection, the trafficking–asylum interface under the new Pact, and EU‑level investigative and coordination tools against organised trafficking networks.
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First‑round interventions from EPP, S&D/Renew, ID and ECR MEPs focus on implementing the revised Anti‑Trafficking Directive, reducing demand, links with asylum and irregular migration, use of EU agencies, and inclusion of surrogacy and criminal networks in the forthcoming EU strategy.
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Commission, judicial, Council of Europe and Europol representatives present trends, legal and operational gaps, and strategic priorities, including gender‑based and digital dimensions of trafficking, enforcement deficits, victim‑centred reforms, and cross‑border investigative needs.
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Chairs from LIBE and FEMM open the joint hearing, adopt the agenda, set the gender‑sensitive focus on the Anti‑Trafficking Directive’s implementation and revision, and outline expectations for the new EU strategy and use of existing legal tools.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
In a subsequent meeting, the chair adopts the agenda, confirms coordinators’ decisions on an own‑initiative report, a trafficking hearing linked to the war in Ukraine and a mission to Poland, then opens an exchange of views as Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Minister Marian Jurečka presents the Council Presidency’s priorities on women’s rights and gender equality.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The chair opens a FEMM sitting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports coordinators’ decisions on key files (violence against women and pay transparency directives, hearing on women in Afghanistan), then introduces and debates a study on the gender dimension of the EU’s COVID‑19 response, highlighting disproportionate impacts on women and the need for stronger gender mainstreaming and data in recovery measures.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The REGI rapporteur and Chair Gálvez rebut claims of ideological bias by grounding gender equality and climate as treaty‑based horizontal priorities, argue for gender‑responsive budgeting as a democratic and economic necessity, and close the MFF item by confirming that compromise work will continue and announcing the afternoon joint FEMM–LIBE meeting on anti‑trafficking.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
The Chairs open further FEMM sittings, confirm procedural elements and conduct electronic votes on the directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, including key compromises, and on the report concerning the situation of women with disabilities, giving detailed voting instructions to members.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Shadows and members from Patriots, EPP, ECR and Renew outline diverging views on using the EU budget for gender equality, debating earmarked funds, gender‑impact assessments, horizontal principles, administrative burden and alleged ‘ideological’ conditionality, with concerns raised about SMEs and sectoral impacts versus calls for binding tools to avoid backsliding on women’s rights.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur Lina Gálvez sets out persistent gender gaps in the EU, criticises the Commission’s MFF 2028‑2034 proposal for lacking robust gender mainstreaming and targets, and explains the timetable, amendment landscape and key political fault lines (spending targets, ‘do no significant harm’ principle, Annex 4 data issues) before handing the floor to shadows.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
Η πρόεδρος‑εισηγήτρια παρουσιάζει το πλαίσιο παρακολούθησης για τον ΜΠΔ 2028‑2034 και τις τροπολογίες της FEMM για ενσωμάτωση της ισότητας των φύλων, ενώ σκιώδεις εισηγητές Patriots/ECR αμφισβητούν την έμφυλη κατάρτιση προϋπολογισμού και στη συνέχεια σκιώδεις από EPP/Renew και η εισηγήτρια υπερασπίζονται τη μεθοδολογία, τα νομικά θεμέλια και τα επόμενα βήματα του φακέλου.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
FEMM examines the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus on women and girls, adopting the oral question and resolution through electronic and split votes, followed by a Cypriot member’s closing intervention underlining justice for victims and political expectations from the EU.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and moves directly to the Global Europe instrument opinion, where rapporteur and shadows present the file and members complete the full sequence of amendment and compromise votes through to final adoption by roll‑call.
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The Chair closes by framing AI‑driven gender‑based violence as a systemic, patriarchal and profit‑driven threat comparable to the tobacco industry, and calls for united, courageous enforcement and, where necessary, strengthening of EU rules to protect especially younger generations before harms become entrenched.
Experts respond to MEPs by attributing youth over‑use to addictive algorithms, warning of the limits of media literacy alone, advocating alternative engagement metrics and intentional platform use, and emphasizing the need for data access, proportionate child access restrictions and effective sanctions, potentially funded via tech taxation, to uphold fundamental rights.
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MEPs raise concerns about prevention of virality, reporting mechanisms, youth exposure and education, parental responsibility and third‑country platforms, define AI sexual imagery as structural violence and digital rape, and discuss bans, age limits, identity protection, support for vulnerable children, and strong enforcement tools up to market exclusion and high DSA fines.
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The AI Act rapporteur and AI Omnibus co‑rapporteurs outline how AI industrializes misogyny, stress platforms’ DSA risk‑assessment and enforcement obligations, debate whether to ban nudification systems and how broadly to define prohibited AI‑nudity, and call for robust EU‑level tools and sanctions that change platform design rather than become a cost of doing business.
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Experts from civil society and the FRA present concrete cases of AI‑driven sextortion and nudification, the psychological and societal harms for young people, structural gaps in platforms’ duty of care, and the partial coverage of deepfake abuse by existing EU instruments including the DSA, GDPR, AI Act, Violence Against Women Directive and CSAM rules.
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The Chair opens the FEMM hearing on AI and gender‑based violence, situates it in the context of EU online safety and international interest, and then details the Grok scandal, national bans, and the Commission’s DSA investigation alongside Parliament’s AI Omnibus work on deepfakes and platform responsibility.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair formally closes the meeting, thanks participants and interpreters, announces resumption at 15:00, and declines a late request from Margarita to respond, suggesting she intervene at the start of the next session if members are present.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Acting as rapporteur, the Chair criticises the insufficient gender dimension in the 2028–2034 MFF and calls for OECD‑style gender budgeting, while BUDG/KONT co‑rapporteurs and political groups debate the scope, methodology and administrative burden of gender tracking before the rapporteur closes by linking robust gender‑sensitive budgeting to democracy, competitiveness and future amendment work.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair and rapporteur Moretti present the ESF+ post‑2027 framework with a focus on gender equality and the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative, followed by a polarised exchange between groups over subsidiarity, use of ESF+ to fund access to safe abortion and support for vulnerable women, culminating in Moretti’s defence of ESF+ as a tool for SRHR and against gender‑based exclusion and violence.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and decisions, then introduces the Agora EU programme, after which the rapporteur, political groups and lead‑committee co‑rapporteurs set out contrasting visions on DAFNE, gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights and the programme’s ideological scope before the rapporteur closes and signals next negotiating steps.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Members assess outcomes of the India mission, contrasting formal legal protections with persistent gender inequalities, discuss anti‑gender trends and the need for binding gender targets in EU external action and Global Gateway, and the Chair stresses integrating gender and human rights into EU‑India relations before closing the session.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
MEPs call for sustained EU funding and protection for Indian civil society, stronger gender mainstreaming in EU–India trade and external instruments, and the Chair concludes with lessons on embedding gender in EU external action and continued cooperation with Indian partners.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair frames the mission’s political significance and possible parliamentary follow-up before MEPs highlight the mission’s impact, the implementation gap in India, the role of religion in women’s status, and the need to involve men and reflect these insights in EU agreements and committee work.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Initial reports from the delegation detail India’s advanced equality legislation contrasted with persistent caste-based discrimination, followed by testimonies on meetings with acid attack survivors and the role of women’s organisations and cross-party female solidarity.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
Coordinators and MEPs question the Commission and EIGE on Member State implementation gaps, regulatory burdens and effects on SMEs, and how to address systemic undervaluation of female‑dominated sectors, with replies clarifying the directive’s limits, the voluntary nature and benefits of the toolkit, and concluding remarks from the Chair on monitoring and next steps.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the agenda point on EU guidelines for gender‑neutral job evaluation under the Pay Transparency Directive, followed by detailed presentations from the Commission and EIGE on the directive’s legal framework, transposition timeline, and the design and practical use of the job evaluation toolkit for employers and social partners.
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The Chair and Commission introduce the legal basis, timeline and support measures for EU‑wide gender‑neutral job evaluation guidelines, EIGE presents the toolkit’s structure, users and implementation pathways, and MEPs question the Commission and EIGE on practical implementation, SME burden and the undervaluation of female‑dominated work under the Pay Transparency Directive.
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