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The Commission vice‑president and MEPs set out plans and political demands on AI factories, chips, cloud and cybersecurity to strengthen EU digital sovereignty, reduce dependence on foreign tech powers and advance regulatory files such as the digital omnibus and targeted cybersecurity measures.
MEPs and speakers frame digital sovereignty around human‑centric AI, democratic control of data, and the EU’s ability to invest jointly in critical capacities, while denouncing surveillance capitalism, calling for restrictions on targeted advertising and stronger tools against non‑compliant platforms. The discussion links national AI and cloud strategies to EU‑level market, capital‑market and industrial levers needed to build independent yet open digital infrastructures.
MEPs analyse Europe’s structural lag behind the US and China, linking it to energy costs, skills and regulation, and debate how to adapt GDPR, copyright and industrial policy to enable competitive EU AI models and reduce dependence on US providers, including in light of concrete access restrictions such as the Anthropic case.
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The President opens the debate on EU digital and technological sovereignty, followed by the Commission’s presentation of its new sovereignty package (including Chips Act 2.0 and Cloud and AI Development Act) and initial MEP reactions on dependencies, industrial policy, market role and hyperscaler reliance.
Final part of the sitting starting with last MEP positions on the AI Omnibus Regulation, followed by successive one‑minute speeches where MEPs raise national and political concerns on taxation, migration, Ukraine, enlargement, environment, labour conditions, rural impacts and EU governance.
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The Chair, rapporteurs, Commission and main political groups present the AI Omnibus as a temporary simplification of the AI Act, outlining scope, safeguards, governance, and contrasting political lines on protection, competitiveness, enforcement and Europe’s AI investment gap.
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The Chair, rapporteur, committees and Commission present the EU–US customs package’s legal design and safeguards before political groups articulate contrasting positions on strategic autonomy, sectoral impacts and asymmetries, leading to closing statements and announcement of the vote.
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Reopening of the sitting, procedural adjustments and points of order are followed by the launch of the debate on European economic independence, where the Commission and main groups set out competing visions on strategic economic autonomy and competitiveness.
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The plenary debate on EU–Azerbaijan relations is opened, setting out the institutional and geopolitical stakes around Parliament’s human-rights stance and cooperation with Baku, followed by explanations of vote on several legislative files, procedural follow-up announcements and the formal closure of the sitting.
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Continuous voting session on urgency resolutions concerning Iran, Afghanistan and Indonesia, followed by detailed amendment votes and final adoption of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee resolution on reducing work-related deaths.
Chair opens the sitting, addresses points of order on Gaza activists and the Capaci massacre, then moves to ECON and TRAN mandates on the securitisation and roadworthiness packages ahead of trilogue negotiations.
The Chair and Commissioner set out the AccelerateEU energy package, ILUC criteria and the delegated act on high‑risk biofuel feedstocks, followed by a debate on biofuels versus electrification, sector‑specific uses, investment certainty and the Commission’s commitment to focus electrification while supporting sustainable fuels for hard‑to‑abate sectors.
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Commissioner Schinas and MEPs assess the Hondius outbreak response, EU–national competence boundaries and lessons from COVID, before turning to the strengthening of ECDC, lab networks, EU4Health and links with HERA and the WHO pandemic treaty for longer‑term health security.
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Chairs, MEPs and Commissioner Schinas examine the European Citizens’ Initiative on video‑game preservation, addressing ownership models, shutdown practices, preservation duties and possible links to future EU consumer and copyright rules, with the Commission signalling a forthcoming formal response.
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The chair, ECR author and Commission introduce the ETS topical debate and revision context, then the combined debate develops the main political fault lines around ETS fundamentals, its impact on energy prices, industrial competitiveness and revenue use within Fit for 55.
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From the opening of the voting session to the end of roll‑call votes, the President guides consent procedures on international, security and fisheries agreements, then turns to foreign‑policy and rule‑of‑law resolutions (UN General Assembly, Slovakia), addressing politically sensitive points of order and disputed amendments on EU leaders and third countries.
From the opening of the sitting to the closing reply by the Commission, Members and the Commission set out the roadmap for single market reform, address regulatory fragmentation, SME burdens and external competition, and confront the social implications of the current integration model, including deindustrialisation, labour standards and fair competition. The block clarifies institutional priorities such as a possible 28th regime, simplification tools, investment needs and key files like capital markets union, energy and telecoms, while exposing political cleavages on social safeguards and over‑regulation.
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The Commission presents a Fertilizer Action Plan to tackle price spikes and dependencies, and MEPs debate short‑term CAP and state‑aid relief versus long‑term transition, contesting CBAM/ETS and sanctions impacts while pushing for fertilizer strategic autonomy, circular and organic inputs, Nitrates Directive reform and alignment with food security and Green Deal politics.
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Italian MEPs react to the Modena attack with competing interpretations of its causes, contrasting calls for depoliticised focus on mental health and public‑space protection with demands for tougher migration, citizenship and radicalisation policies.
After votes on immunities and key legislative files, the plenary turns to an AFCO oral question on EU capacity to act, where Council and Commission present tools for reform (passerelles, enhanced cooperation, MFF changes) and MEPs polarise over veto powers, federalism, treaty change, Council’s role and the balance between strategic autonomy and democratic legitimacy.
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President Metsola and laureates use the new Order of Merit to honour contributors to integration, enlargement, democracy and Ukraine, with former leaders and Angela Merkel delivering politically charged reflections on defence, federalism, AI and the EU’s core promises of peace, prosperity and democracy before the formal close of the ceremony.
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From the opening of the sitting to the closing statements, Council, Commission and political groups set out the EU’s legislative toolbox (AI Act, NIS2, CRA, cyber reserve), debate tech sovereignty and energy needs for AI, and clash over foreign dependencies, fundamental rights, democratic risks, defence integration and institutional design for EU cyber and security policy.
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From the Commission’s presentation of the Critical Medicines Act and broader health package through to MEPs’ plenary interventions on social inequalities, digital regulation, civil liberties and media freedom, this block traces key policy objectives, political divides and procedural next steps ahead of the vote.
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Commissioner Hansen and rapporteur Fidanza give closing replies on CAP tools, coupled support, generational renewal, fertilizer use and reciprocity in trade before the Chair announces the timing of the vote and closes the livestock item, after which Parliament moves to the next agenda point on women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and the rapporteur presents key barriers and proposed solutions.
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Debate turns to expectations for the upcoming EU livestock strategy, its links to climate and health objectives, food sovereignty and strategic autonomy, with MEPs divided over herd size, intensive versus extensive systems, role of NGOs and novel foods, while also raising issues such as wool valorisation, Mercosur and other trade deals, national predator and disease crises, vaccination strategies and the long‑term viability of rural livestock farming.
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MEPs highlight concrete crises affecting livestock farmers, including mass culling and disease outbreaks in Greece and elsewhere, slow compensation, shortages of veterinarians, manure and fertilizer challenges, and pressures from energy transition and large carnivores, arguing over vaccination versus culling, over‑regulation, trade rules and the need for immediate EU financial support and realistic environmental and animal‑health standards.
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Main political groups set out their positions on the future of EU livestock, with centre‑right and centre‑left stressing food security, farmer incomes, CAP stability and trade reciprocity, while Patriots/ID, ECR, Renew, Greens and Left clash over free trade agreements, industrial versus extensive models, animal welfare, NGO influence, local processing capacity and the role of livestock in biodiversity and the circular economy.
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The President opens the sitting, announces Council first‑reading positions on several legislative files and the deadline for Parliament’s response, then introduces the debate on the livestock farming report with presentations by rapporteur Fidanza and Commissioner Hansen outlining the political context and forthcoming EU livestock strategy.
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Block of final roll‑call discharge votes covering the 9th–11th European Development Funds, the 2024 EU general budget for Parliament, and subsequent discharge and resolution votes for the European Council, Council, Court of Justice and Court of Auditors, including rejection of remaining amendments and adoption of the Tridico report resolution.
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Start of sitting with presentation of the Council decision amending the European Electoral Act to introduce proxy voting for pregnant and post‑childbirth MEPs, followed by political group statements and the Parliament’s roll‑call consent vote.
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