How to watch the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting

Panel 1 MEP Q&A: deployment, legal limits, and trust in EU AV blueprint

Javier Zarzalejos and 2 others

MEPs question the Commission and DPAs on timelines, cybersecurity, data storage, DSA Article 28 guidance, facial recognition reliability, ‘double anonymity’ schemes, parental responsibility and VPN circumvention, eliciting clarifications on enforcement, governance, and technical safeguards before the chair closes the first panel.

In this chapter

1. MEP Q&A round 1: deployment, cybersecurity, and limits of AV appJavier Zarzalejos
2. MEP Q&A round 2: methods, DSA guidelines, criticism of blueprintJaroslav Bžoch
3. Green critique and CNIL follow‑up: flaws, ‘hack’, and double anonymityJavier Zarzalejos
4. Further MEP Q&A: trust, parents’ role, and panel 1 closingJavier Zarzalejos

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Panel 1 opening: EU institutional approaches to age verification

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

Chair Zarzalejos opens the LIBE hearing on age verification for protection of minors online and the first panel, where the Commission (DG CONNECT) and the French and Spanish DPAs set out the EU blueprint and data‑protection authorities’ criteria for privacy‑preserving, GDPR‑compliant age assurance solutions.

In this chapter

1. Opening of hearing: agenda and panel 1Javier Zarzalejos
2. Commission (DG CONNECT): EU age verification blueprintJavier Zarzalejos
3. CNIL (France): assessment of age assurance optionsJavier Zarzalejos
4. Spanish DPA: privacy‑by‑design age verification and JOYE case

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting

Voting block: Eurojust–Lebanon and Switzerland package

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

The committee holds an electronic voting session to adopt consent on the Eurojust cooperation agreement with Lebanon and to approve LIBE’s interim opinion on the EU–Switzerland package before adjourning the meeting.

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting

Other trilogues: Return Regulation and SME/SMC Omnibus

Malik Azmani and 2 others

Rapporteurs update on trilogues for the Return Regulation, focusing on mandatory mutual recognition of return decisions and the external dimension, and on the SME/SMC ‘Mid‑Caps Omnibus’ package, which seeks targeted GDPR relief and reduced administrative burdens while keeping high‑risk data processing fully regulated.

In this chapter

1. Trilogues: Return Regulation and mutual recognition of return decisionsMalik Azmani
2. Trilogues: SME/SMC ‘Mid‑Caps Omnibus’ and GDPR reliefJavier Zarzalejos

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Trilogues on CSA Regulation and Directive

Javier Zarzalejos and 2 others

The Chair and rapporteurs brief on interinstitutional negotiations on the CSA Regulation and recast CSA Directive, highlighting remaining divergences on detection orders, privacy safeguards, penalties, limitation periods, consent, grooming and travel‑for‑abuse offences while noting areas of provisional agreement.

In this chapter

1. Tripartite negotiations: CSA Regulation (CSAM online)Javier Zarzalejos
2. Trilogues: recast CSA Directive on sexual abuse offencesJavier Zarzalejos

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Hybrid warfare Q&A: migration, FIMI evidence, competences

Javier Zarzalejos and 4 others

MEPs press the Commission and EEAS on concrete responses against Russia, China and others, platform accountability, proof standards for foreign interference, the notion of instrumentalised migration, visa policy, division of EU–national competences and links to terrorism, with replies detailing sanctions, DSA enforcement, databases like EUvsDisinfo and complementary cybersecurity legislation.

In this chapter

1. Hybrid warfare Q&A: sanctions, platforms, EU toolboxJavier Zarzalejos
2. Hybrid warfare Q&A (cont.): instrumentalised migration, visas, FIMI proofJavier Zarzalejos
3. Hybrid warfare Q&A (cont.): perpetrators, competences, terrorism linkJavier Zarzalejos

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Hybrid warfare item: threat overviews by DG HOME and EEAS

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

DG HOME and EEAS outline the evolving hybrid threat landscape, covering instrumentalised migration, critical infrastructure, drones, cyber‑attacks and foreign information manipulation, and present the existing EU legal, operational and sanctions toolbox to counter these threats.

In this chapter

1. DG HOME: hybrid threats against EU internal securityJavier Zarzalejos
2. EEAS: foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)Javier Zarzalejos

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Home Affairs funds 2028–2034: parliamentary scrutiny and Commission replies

Javier Zarzalejos and 7 others

MEPs question the Commission on Schengen resilience, asylum and returns, flexibility, agency financing and overlaps with other instruments, while the Commission defends broad reallocation powers, objective‑based programming, non‑funding of physical barriers and enhanced oversight tools before the Chair closes the item.

In this chapter

1. Q&A round I on Home Affairs funds: Schengen, asylum, flexibilityJavier Zarzalejos
2. Q&A round I (cont.): democratic oversight, agencies, Global EuropeJavier Zarzalejos
3. Q&A round I (cont.): reallocations, minimum shares and political useErik Marquardt

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Opening of LIBE meeting and Home Affairs MFF item

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

The Chair opens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and launches the debate on the 2028–2034 Home Affairs funding architecture with the Commission’s presentation of the new integrated MFF framework for AMIF, ISF and BMVI.

In this chapter

1. Opening of meeting and adoption of agendaJavier Zarzalejos
2. Commission (Onidi): new Home Affairs MFF architecture

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs – LIBE DRFMG Working Group Meeting

Second Q&A block: media funding, AI and safeguards

Alice Kuhnke and 3 others

MEPs question the Commission on the absence of earmarked news‑media funding in Agora EU, criteria for ensuring editorial independence, impacts of AI‑generated news summaries on media pluralism and DSA systemic‑risk assessments, and how simplification can proceed without diluting programme‑specific objectives, with the Court of Auditors stressing the need for clear safeguards and transparency on reallocations.

In this chapter

1. Second Q&A: earmarking, AI summaries and citizen‑directed supportAlice Kuhnke
2. Chair–ECA exchange: simplification vs dilution risksSophie Wilmès

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs – LIBE DRFMG Working Group Meeting

Panel 2 presentations: Agora EU and media financing architecture

Sophie Wilmès and 3 others

The Chair shifts to media financing under the next MFF, DG CONNECT outlines economic pressures on journalism and the design of the proposed €3.2bn Agora EU/Media+, the European Court of Auditors assesses its governance, EU added value, performance framework and audit rights, and IPI advocates large‑scale, long‑term and firewall‑based public funding for independent, local and investigative media.

In this chapter

1. Transition to Panel 2: from freedoms to financingSophie Wilmès
2. Commission: economic pressures and design of Agora EU / Media+Giuseppe Abbamonte
3. European Court of Auditors: opinion on Agora EU designAlejandro Blanco Fernández
4. International Press Institute: strategic, long‑term media investmentScott Griffin

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs – LIBE DRFMG Working Group Meeting

First Q&A: EMFA enforcement, disinformation, platforms and spyware

Sophie Wilmès and 8 others

MEPs and the Chair question speakers on Agora EU priorities, media’s role in counter‑disinformation, defining and regulating disinformation and platform power, EMFA and anti‑SLAPP implementation (including in Italy and Hungary), spyware and journalist safety, chatbot and LLM risks, and ‘foreign agent’ laws, with Commission, Council of Europe, EDMO, CPJ and EBU providing detailed replies on EU competences, DSA enforcement and safeguards.

In this chapter

1. Transition to Q&A: guidelines for membersSophie Wilmès
2. MEP Šírová: Agora EU priorities and media vs. disinformation rolesVeronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová
3. MEP Kuhnke: disinformation definitions, platforms and spyware follow‑upAlice Kuhnke

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Council of Europe, EDMO, CPJ, EBU: risks to media freedom and independence

Cesare Pitea and 4 others

The Council of Europe links EMFA to ECHR standards and five dimensions of media freedom, EDMO details disinformation dynamics and Democracy Shield funding gaps, CPJ focuses on political will, EMFA and anti‑SLAPP enforcement, and EBU highlights the role, funding erosion and regulatory needs of public service media in a platform‑dominated ecosystem.

In this chapter

1. Council of Europe: standards and five dimensions of media freedomCesare Pitea
2. EDMO: disinformation, platform risks and Democracy Shield funding gapPaula Gori
3. CPJ: political will, EMFA enforcement and anti‑SLAPPTom Gibson
4. EBU: role and funding of public service mediaWouter Gekiere

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs – LIBE DRFMG Working Group Meeting

Opening and Commission: EU media freedom framework

Sophie Wilmès and 1 other

The Chair opens the LIBE DRFMG meeting, sets World Press Freedom Day and EMFA/anti‑SLAPP as the context, then DG CONNECT presents the broader Democracy Shield, EMFA implementation and enforcement tools, AVMSD evaluation and revision priorities, and plans to update the EU journalist‑safety recommendation.

In this chapter

1. Opening: agenda and policy focusSophie Wilmès
2. Commission (DG CONNECT): EMFA, AVMSD and journalist safetyGiuseppe Abbamonte

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting

Panel 3: defence rights, mutual recognition and digital justice

Javier Zarzalejos and 7 others

Defence lawyers and Fair Trials assess mutual recognition instruments, the EAW and supervision orders, overuse of pre‑trial detention, safeguards for videoconferencing and encrypted evidence, and respond to MEPs on EPPO coverage, suspects’ rights, public priorities, data quality and how reforms of EPPO, Eurojust, Europol and digitalisation can strengthen fair‑trial guarantees before the Chair closes the hearing.

In this chapter

1. Panel 3 set-up: professional organisations and fair trial focusJavier Zarzalejos
2. Defence lawyers and Fair Trials: mutual recognition, EAW and supervision ordersAmedeo Barletta
3. Panel 3 Q&A: EPPO coverage, pretrial detention and data qualityJavier Zarzalejos
4. Harmonisation, digital justice and conclusion of the hearingJavier Zarzalejos

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Panel 2: Q&A on JITs, organised crime definition and funding

Javier Zarzalejos and 9 others

MEPs press agencies on moving from ad hoc JITs to centralised judicial task forces, EU accession to the UN cybercrime convention, systematic support to transit states, an EU definition of participation in a criminal organisation, operational awareness of EU tools, funding of cross‑border units and Eurojust’s role in the e‑evidence regime.

In this chapter

1. Panel 2 Q&A round 1: JITs, cybercrime convention and transit states supportJavier Zarzalejos
2. Defining organised crime and improving operational–judicial cultureJavier Zarzalejos
3. Panel 2 Q&A round 2: funding, judicial task forces and e‑evidenceMalika Sorel

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Panel 2: agencies’ operational cooperation experience

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

Eurojust, Europol, EPPO, the European Judicial Network, the Franco‑German cross‑border brigade and the Palermo court present operational casework on JITs, SIENA, PIF crimes, decentralised judicial cooperation, cross‑border police models and anti‑mafia practice, outlining needs for clearer mandates, shared services and harmonised organised‑crime and evidence rules.

In this chapter

1. Panel 2 introductions: Eurojust, Europol, EPPO, EJN, joint unit, Palermo courtJavier Zarzalejos
2. Eurojust and Europol: operational cooperation, JITs and future needsJavier Zarzalejos
3. EPPO, EJN, Franco‑German brigade and Palermo court: practice-based insightsJavier Zarzalejos

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Panel 1: MEPs’ questions on police cooperation, data, organised crime

Javier Zarzalejos and 11 others

MEPs scrutinise feedback channels from practitioners, specialisation needs, data‑exchange obstacles, EDPS‑related limits on Frontex–Europol cooperation, EU competences, financial crime, AMLA, inter‑agency synergies, and the forthcoming organised‑crime and anti‑corruption initiatives, before the Chair closes Panel 1 and introduces Panel 2.

In this chapter

1. Panel 1 Q&A round 1: feedback loops, specialization, proportionalityJavier Zarzalejos
2. Data exchange, police protection and EU competencesFabrice Leggeri
3. Financial crime, AMLA, inter‑agency synergies and oversightFabienne Keller

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Panel 1: Commission and FRA policy orientations

Floriana Sipala and 2 others

DG HOME and DG JUST set out forthcoming initiatives on Europol, Eurojust, EPPO, information exchange, organised crime and victims’ rights, while the Fundamental Rights Agency highlights gaps in safeguards, victims’ protection and rights‑compliant use of digital tools and AI in criminal justice.

In this chapter

1. DG HOME: three pillars of enhanced police cooperationFloriana Sipala
2. DG JUST: revisions of EPPO, Eurojust, EIO and anti‑fraud architecturePeter Jozsef Csonka
3. Fundamental Rights Agency: safeguards, victims and technology

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Opening of LIBE meeting and hearing agenda

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

The Chair opens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, announces rapporteur and coordinators’ decisions, and frames the public hearing on future police and judicial cooperation, speakers and structure.

In this chapter

1. Opening of LIBE meeting and agenda adoptionJavier Zarzalejos
2. Panel 1 set-up: future police and judicial cooperationJavier Zarzalejos

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting

Rule of Law 2025: final compromises, amendment and overall vote

Marina Kaljurand S&D

Committee rejects amendment 732B, adopts compromise amendments 11, 12 and 13, and then adopts the final report in a roll-call vote, with congratulations to the rapporteur.

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Rule of Law 2025: compromises 5A to 9A and identical amendments

Marina Kaljurand S&D

Members vote on roll-call compromises 5A, 5B, 5C, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9A, with 9A rejected, then adopt identical amendments 665–668 and compromise 10, while rejecting compromise 10A in roll-call.

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Rule of Law 2025 report: compromises 1 to 5C

Marina Kaljurand S&D

Committee moves to the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report and proceeds with electronic votes on compromise amendments 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 5C, all of which are adopted.

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Electronic voting setup and UN Cybercrime Convention

Marina Kaljurand S&D

Chair proposes electronic voting for transparency and conducts the vote on the EU conclusion of the UN Convention against Cybercrime, confirming its adoption.

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Opening of LIBE meeting and housekeeping

Marina Kaljurand S&D

Chair opens the LIBE meeting, announces available interpretation languages, and formally records substitutions of non-LIBE members across political groups.

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