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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Chairs frame the joint LIBE–ITRE meeting and Digital Omnibus mandate, then political shadows and IMCO/JURI rapporteurs set out their positions on data, AI, cybersecurity, consumer protection, SMEs and legal safeguards.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Europol presents the 2024 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, detailing key statistics and threat evolutions, followed by MEP questioning on foreign fighters, youth radicalisation, online content and data tools, mandate gaps, treatment of jihadism and state actors, terrorist financing, lawful data access and preventive resilience measures.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur and MEPs review the state of trilogue negotiations on the long-term CSAM regulation, spelling out red lines on encryption, scope of detection orders, audio services and age verification, and clarifying how the interim regime will transition under successive Council presidencies.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
LIBE examines the work of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, with its chair and political groups assessing recent country missions, horizontal rule-of-law themes, focus on Hungary, Slovakia, Greece and Spain, and debating working methods, transparency and risks of politicisation.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Opening of the LIBE sitting with the Irish Council Presidency outlining its rule of law–centred programme, followed by a broad MEP Q&A on the rule of law toolbox, Article 7 (Hungary), links to the internal market, migration and return policy, digital platforms, EPPO and equality legislation.
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Professor Bodnar details Polish rule of law concerns, European Arrest Warrant implications and Pegasus surveillance issues, followed by the Chair organising a coordinated round of questions to EU institutions and stakeholders on asylum abuse, mutual trust safeguards and possible reinforcement of Eurojust’s mandate.
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MEP Wawrykiewicz raises systemic rule‑of‑law concerns around the EAW, Schengen mutual trust and US sanctions on ICC officials, prompting the Commission, Eurojust and CCBE to outline existing legal and soft‑law tools, impacts on accountability work, and the practical use of EU rule‑of‑law safeguards by defence lawyers.
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Eurojust details its operational role in mutual recognition, including corruption and public‑procurement cases, competing EAWs and detention‑condition assessments, followed by the CCBE stressing lawyers’ role in safeguarding mutual trust, judicial independence and defence rights amid expanding surveillance and data‑access powers.
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The Chair opens the LIBE DRFMG meeting and frames the mandate, then the Commission sets out its competence on criminal procedural law and the European Arrest Warrant, explaining key CJEU case law, the two‑step fundamental‑rights test and the policy choice to support mutual recognition through non‑legislative tools rather than revising the EAW.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Commission outlines the mandate, core pillars and timeline of the EU anti‑corruption strategy, followed by MEP scrutiny on prevention tools, institutional integrity (including EU bodies and party financing), coordination and enforcement gaps, Rule of Law conditionality, civil society and media protection, lobbying and revolving doors, sanctions and amnesties, and support for enforcement and cross‑border cooperation including EPPO and asset recovery.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Commission introduces the broader justice and internal security package, then focuses on proposed Eurojust reforms to mandate, resources, data‑protection lex specialis and procedural tools (EIO and European Remote Participation Order), followed by MEPs’ questions on extending Eurojust’s scope to new crime areas, impacts on staffing, IT and national members’ powers, and safeguarding judicial autonomy and data ownership.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair reopens the Europol mandate revision file, the Commission presents its reform package on information exchange, big data, police data space and governance, and MEPs from several groups question the risk of an ‘EU FBI’, limits on data processing and automation, interaction with national competences, and oversight, with the Chair closing the item and calling for constructive inter‑institutional negotiations.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The sitting turns to justice and home‑affairs consent files, with the EU–Switzerland PNR agreement presented and politically framed in security and data‑protection terms, followed by the CSA directive recast trilogue outcome where rapporteur and groups assess substantive gains, AI‑generated CSAM issues and links to future CSAM regulation and implementation steps.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
After closing the anti‑racism item, the Chair opens the structured dialogue with Executive Vice‑President Virkkunen, leading into exchanges on AI infrastructure, cloud sovereignty, security legislation for Europol and Eurojust, and scrutiny of rule of law, media freedom and spyware oversight, including follow‑up to PEGA and child‑protection rules online.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the workshop and the Commission presents the 2026–2030 EU Anti-Racism Strategy, its legal framework and implementation tools, followed by experts and MEPs examining structural racism, data gaps and funding, and challenging the Commission on institutional racism, NGO space and racial mainstreaming across EU policies.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The LIBE committee examines its draft opinion on the Digital Networks Act, addressing privacy, data use, encryption and supervisory powers, then moves to the formal vote on compromise amendments for cohesion, agricultural, fisheries and maritime funds for 2028–2034.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
MEPs review Eurojust’s 2023 annual report, questioning the agency on tools to address cyber‑enabled and cross‑border organised crime, data exchange and asset confiscation, and then discuss its evolving mandate and coordination with Europol, EPPO, OLAF and international partners ahead of the forthcoming revision of the Eurojust Regulation.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Committee opens its meeting, validates the agenda and examines the Pericles 5 and Internal Security Fund files before turning to the Fundamental Rights Agency’s annual report, with the Director presenting key findings and engaging in detailed Q&A on Article 2 TEU values, Charter implementation, AI, migrants’ rights and monitoring under the Migration and Asylum Pact.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur outlines objectives, budget, governance and allocation logic for the 2028‑2032 border management and visa instrument, with shadows and the Commission debating scope, returns, flexibility and performance‑based funding, after which the Chair sets the amendment deadline, postpones other agenda items and formally closes the LIBE meeting.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur presents the proposed 2028‑2034 AMIF regulation, detailing policy priorities, minimum allocation percentages, co‑financing rules, eligible actions and transparency, followed by political groups setting out their positions on returns, border control, integration, earmarking and NGO roles, and the Commission and rapporteur clarifying the instrument’s flexible, performance‑oriented model and its focus on reception and integration rather than border control.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Debate on political Islam as an anti‑democratic project, focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood, national security measures, and legal constraints for EU terrorist listing, followed by MEP questions on Gaza, Islamism, EU funding and online radicalisation and experts’ recommendations for EU‑level action.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Linked MEP questions and expert replies examine how the EU can strengthen operational tools against Islamist networks (beyond information‑sharing), including Europol‑backed joint investigations and undercover work online, while also addressing social cohesion, partnerships with democratic Muslim actors, deradicalisation in prisons, and platform responsibility for online radicalisation and terrorist content.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The President frames the debate on Islamist extremism’s impact on the European way of life and introduces Commission and academic experts, followed by Professors Neumann and Ranstorp’s detailed mapping of evolving jihadist and Islamist threats and their implications for EU‑level counter‑terrorism and prevention policies.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
From the opening of the LIBE meeting and agenda approval to the EDPB item, covering Talus’s presentation of the Board’s mandate and tools under the GDPR and wider digital package, and a detailed Q&A with MEPs on enforcement performance, anonymisation guidance, cross‑border cooperation, the Omnibus and the risks of redefining personal data.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
In a separate meeting, the Chair opens the sitting, recalls procedural points and introduces Belgian ministers to outline the Justice and Home Affairs priorities of the Belgian Council Presidency.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
Europol presents IOCTA 2024 findings on encryption‑enabled cybercrime, ransomware, AI‑driven offences and major operations, followed by MEPs questioning platform responsibilities, lawful access to encrypted data, CSA trends, AI and 3D‑printed weapons, prompting calls for clearer legal duties, enforcement powers and robust, auditable law‑enforcement technologies.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
LIBE examines EU civil protection and critical infrastructure resilience, with Commission services and experts detailing CER/NIS2 obligations, hybrid and multi‑hazard risks, enforcement gaps and resilience needs, followed by MEPs probing integration with UCPM, crisis coordination models, sector‑specific risks and forthcoming policy initiatives before the Chair closes the item.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Chair and invited officials frame the state of play on implementing the Migration and Asylum Pact, followed by rounds of MEP questions on preparedness, solidarity, enforcement, rights safeguards, frontline pressures and evaluation plans, with the Commission and Presidency defending the Pact’s added value while acknowledging uneven readiness and the need for close monitoring.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
The Commission presents its proposed directive under Article 83 TFEU on criminalising illicit firearms trafficking, data reporting and 3D‑printed weapons, followed by the rapporteur and shadows outlining priorities on proportionality, hunters’ rights, reporting burdens, Schengen links and agency coordination, with Commission replies before the chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting
After closing the hearing, LIBE turns to the DRFMG mission report on Spain’s rule of law, with contrasting group reactions over judicial independence, decree‑laws and alleged politicisation, then hears the substitute rapporteur on the committee’s draft opinion to AFCO on AI governance, competitiveness and possible new parliamentary structures, which some members question on competence and necessity.
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