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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Extraordinary meeting
The Chair opens the LIBE extraordinary meeting in Strasbourg, presents the draft agenda, and an S&D shadow rapporteur invokes the Rules of Procedure to oppose the agenda and request postponement of the vote on the returns regulation; the committee votes electronically on the postponement request, which is rejected, and the agenda is adopted.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
After announcing substitutions and confirming quorum, the committee holds electronic votes on the report on social media and youth (adopted) and on amendments and compromises to extend the CSAM interim regulation (final report rejected), with the Chair signalling that further procedural steps will follow and formally closing the meeting.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Following closure of the ECI hearing, the Chair opens a new item on AI’s impacts on media and democracy, with the Commission outlining the DSA, AI Act and media-law toolbox, civil society criticising surveillance-based platform models, industry describing AI assistants and ‘pluralism by design’, an audience-data provider detailing traffic and usage trends, and MEPs debating regulatory ambition, enforcement, media funding, and election-related risks with responses from the Commission and experts.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
PETI and FEMM underline the ECI’s democratic role and links to fundamental rights and gender-based violence, the Commission presents its preliminary position and ongoing study work, ECI organisers and a survivor define and document conversion practices and propose EU legal avenues, and two Q&A rounds with MEPs, Commission, Council Presidency and EESC explore legal competences, safeguards, consent, scope, and next institutional steps.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair reopens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, announces a new rapporteur and then formally frames the public hearing on the ECI to ban conversion practices, detailing its legal basis, institutional participation, and procedural timeline for the Commission’s response.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Academic and civil‑society experts brief LIBE on the technical limits of ‘lawful access by design’, the abundance of existing law‑enforcement data, and fundamental‑rights risks linked to data retention, AI‑driven profiling and cross‑border admissibility of electronic evidence. MEPs question the feasibility of digital ‘front doors’, how to avoid generalised surveillance, the empirical case for retention, governance of Europol’s big‑data ambitions and the encryption task force, before the Chair closes with indications on how this input will feed LIBE’s future work on lawful access to data.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Chair Zarzalejos and the Commission set out a three‑pillar roadmap for lawful law‑enforcement access to data, followed by Europol and FIUs detailing operational gaps from missing data and encryption and the benefits of structured public‑private cooperation. MEPs interrogate delays, e‑Evidence implementation, obligations on non‑EU providers, the feasibility and risks of an encryption ‘front door’, and the evidentiary basis for any harmonised, safeguards‑based data‑retention regime ahead of the Commission’s impact assessment.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Commission outlines its forthcoming regulation to grant controlled PRUM/PIM access to selected third countries with strict safeguards, while MEPs probe which partners and data types are envisaged, data‑quality and bias risks, and the link with customs and financial‑tracking systems. The debate clarifies criteria for ‘trusted’ countries, reciprocity and fundamental‑rights guarantees, and broadens to strategic questions on an EU alternative to the US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs raise concerns over brain drain from Africa, call for faster and simpler legal labour migration and criteria for trusted companies, while the Commissioner reiterates talent-attraction and legal pathways as core objectives before both he and the Chair conclude and formally close the visa strategy debate.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs probe how the strategy will reinforce document-fraud detection and security screening, seek clarity on future expansion or restriction of the visa-free list, and advocate hardline conditionality linking visas, development aid and partnerships to readmission, while the Commission defends a balanced approach combining tougher Article 25a use with maintained legal pathways.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs from EPP, S&D, ID, ECR, Renew and the Greens question the Commission on breaking policy silos, politicisation of visa policy, use of visa leverage for returns, legal basis and technology, abuse of visa-free travel, Frontex’s role and the balance between punitive tools, fundamental rights and positive facilitation, including for human rights defenders.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the agenda item on the EU visa strategy and Commissioner Brunner sets out the first comprehensive strategy, detailing its security, migration, diplomatic and competitiveness objectives, including digitalisation and facilitation measures for travellers and businesses.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the LIBE voting session by confirming quorum and substitutes, then a member presents a minority opinion rejecting the fundamental rights report before the Chair formally closes the meeting and announces its resumption the next day.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs assess PNR agreements with Norway and Iceland against terrorism‑prevention needs, privacy safeguards and CJEU case law in view of a consent vote timetable, then question the Commission on Huawei’s role in critical infrastructure, EU cybersecurity rules, high‑risk supplier treatment and the balance between national security and EU‑level obligations.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Commission presents the EU Anti‑Racism Strategy 2026–2030 and faces political questions on scope, enforcement, metrics and future legislation, followed by a contentious debate on prolonging the interim CSAM detection derogation, focusing on encryption, proportionality, mass‑surveillance concerns and the gap before a permanent framework.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair finalises procedural points for the LIBE sitting and then turns to the Commission and eu‑LISA for a detailed scrutiny of the Schengen Entry/Exit System rollout, including operational readiness, delays, border‑management impacts and member state implementation problems raised by MEPs.
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