EDA’s Denk details work on space‑based capabilities and cooperation with DG DEFIS, explains limits from unanimity and national sovereignty on C2 choices, comments on ambitious procurement benchmarks and varying levels of member‑state cooperation, acknowledges dependence on US strategic enablers, assesses gaps in mobility and infrastructure, and outlines principles for structuring the European Competitiveness Fund and border deterrence.
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.
The Chair closes the IPR item, moves to item 11 with a test vote, and the committee proceeds to electronic votes approving the revision of the FDI screening regulation and a Brexit‑related TRQ measure with China, before starting detailed votes on amendments to the draft WTO resolution.
MEPs raise strategic questions on space protection, sovereign cloud and C2, the effectiveness of EDA–DEFIS cooperation, progress on 2030 procurement benchmarks, the design of the European Competitiveness Fund, Europe’s ability to defend itself without US support, and the defence of eastern and Mediterranean borders including Cyprus and Turkey.
MEPs press for an EU approach to online age limits, details of the expert group, and effective funding for pluralistic media through Agora EU, and seek stronger action on cyberbullying, AI training data transparency and fair pay for creators; the Commissioner responds on TikTok and addictive design under the DSA, protection guidelines for minors, the von der Leyen expert panel on age limits, and mandatory labelling of AI‑generated and deepfake content from August.
MEPs articulate diverging political lines on externalization, from defending EU human‑rights credibility and opposing outsourcing to abusive states to prioritising anti‑smuggling and processing near origin, and they challenge the Commissioner and Frontex on safe third country rules, alleged system abuse, and EU complicity in supporting Libyan actors amid impunity, with the Chair framing justice and accountability concerns.
MEPs question the Commission on using FTAs, customs cooperation, SME support tools and international conventions to improve IPR protection, including with China, while the Commission details how FTA IP chapters drive reforms, the limits and role of SME helpdesks, the WTO case against China’s SEP practices, and the planned review of customs IPR enforcement rules.
Frontex’s Fundamental Rights Office explains its monitoring role and proposed funding safeguards in external border cooperation, followed by UN OHCHR/UNSMIL’s presentation of systemic abuses against migrants in Libya and recommendations urging the EU to condition or suspend support absent robust vetting, due diligence and accountability.
The rapporteur and MEPs question the experts on minimum EU principles, ERNs, delayed diagnosis, pricing and reimbursement of orphan medicines, innovation and clinical trials, funding, trade policy implications, and the balance between national and potential shared competences in rare diseases policy.
EPP and S&D coordinators question the Commission on AI’s impact on creators, transparency of training data, AI literacy, slow EMFA and DSA enforcement, AVMSD rules on minors and European works, the DSA case against X, interoperability and AI labelling, with the Commissioner replying on copyright transparency, fair remuneration, creators’ skills, and harmonised age‑verification including links to the EU digital wallet.
Standing rapporteurs and MEPs raise questions on benchmarking recovery effectiveness, fragmentation between administrative and criminal tracks, OLAF Regulation evaluation, and the scale and timing of financial recoveries, with the Commissioner, ECA, EPPO and OLAF detailing upcoming legal evaluations, impact assessments, methodological limits to common performance metrics and updated recovery data.
MEPs question EDA on its nine capability priorities, use of QMV, legal framework, cost of non‑coordination, market barriers, standardisation and R&D speed, prompting replies from Denk on cross‑domain capability gaps, Ukraine lessons, unanimity, expanded joint procurement, NATO‑aligned standards, AI work, military mobility and crisis‑mode procedures, as well as industry capacity constraints and cooperation incentives.
Rapporteur Kolar concludes on migration and the DEV Committee’s remit, followed by the Chair outlining amendment deadlines, vote dates, upcoming joint meetings, and the move to an in camera coordinators’ session.
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.
Commissioner Virkinen presents the European Democracy Shield, the evaluation and upcoming revision of the AVMS Directive, enforcement of the European Media Freedom Act, and outlines the AI strategy, AI Act implementation, copyright review, anti‑piracy work and upcoming initiatives for the European video games industry and minors’ protection.
The Chair opens the DROI hearing, sets the focus on externalization of asylum and migration control and its human rights impacts, and the Council of Europe Commissioner outlines main externalization trends, models (asylum processing abroad, return hubs, border cooperation), and legal safeguards needed to prevent systematic rights violations.
The Chair opens item 10 on protection and enforcement of IPR in third countries and the Commission presents its 2025 third‑country IPR report, explains the priority country list, complementary counterfeit and piracy watch list, main infringement patterns and risks, and EU technical cooperation and strategic use of IP as an industrial policy tool.
The Chair opens the public health committee meeting, confirms the agenda and introduces the rare diseases INL file, followed by EPRS and external experts outlining the European Added Value Assessment, key policy bottlenecks, proposed EU measures and conclusions on consolidating existing tools, notably European Reference Networks.
The Commission explains AMIF’s legal nature as an internal‑policy fund, its limited scope for actions in/with third countries, and the need for complementarity rather than overlap with Global Europe, detailing the three priorities for AMIF’s external dimension (anti‑smuggling, returns/readmissions, legal pathways) and warning against extensive cross‑references and new objectives that would over‑constrain member states.
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.
The Chair opens the CULT committee, adopts the agenda and minutes, explains the exceptional meeting format around the Ukraine‑focused plenary, delivers a statement on Russia’s war, bids farewell to a departing member, and introduces Executive Vice‑President Virkinen and the structured Parliament–Commission dialogue on AVMSD, AI, media pluralism and video games.
After welcoming an Italian defence studies delegation, the Chair introduces EDA Chief Executive Denk, who sets out the agency’s role, strategic context, short‑term tools like SAFE, and mid‑ to long‑term collaborative projects and enablers in response to European Council calls to strengthen EDA.
Political group representatives and members debate solidarity mechanisms, fines and national capacities, deaths at sea, conditionality of aid, labour needs and human‑rights safeguards in partnerships with third countries within the AMIF framework.
The European Court of Auditors presents its special report on the EU anti-fraud architecture and mandates of OLAF, EPPO, Eurojust and Europol, followed by the Commission, EPPO and OLAF outlining their reactions, cooperation priorities, recovery figures, data gaps and plans for an interoperable common repository and broader architecture review.
The chair introduces the AMIF legislative opinion and its link to the Pact on Migration and Asylum, followed by DEV rapporteur Kolar’s development‑oriented approach to migration and LIBE rapporteur Mendes’ focus on AMIF’s autonomy, financing level and objectives within national programmes.
Extraordinary meeting opens to elect the new CONT Chair under Rule 219, Andreas Schwab is elected by acclamation, assumes the chair, and conducts a single electronic vote adopting the committee opinion on the 2027 budget guidelines sections.
The chair opens the meeting, sets procedural and voting rules, then hears the rapporteur on the DEV opinion for the MFF 2028–2034 before running through the full sequence of electronic votes, concluding with adoption of the opinion and the roll‑call vote on the Fisheries Partnership Protocol with São Tomé and Príncipe.
The Chair opens the SEDE meeting on the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war, hears Ukraine’s Veterans Minister on wartime veteran policy, and debriefs the ad hoc mission to Kyiv, stressing ongoing attacks, Ukraine’s military needs, the EU support loan and defence‑industrial lessons, and urging Member States to step up assistance.
Chair Ilhan Kyuchyuk thanks ECA’s Jan Gregor, notes that remaining questions will be answered in writing, confirms there is no other business, announces the next JURI meeting in Brussels, and formally closes the extraordinary session.
The ECA representative answers clustered questions on financial simplification priorities, limits of fraud detection and AI use in audits, coverage of the Justice programme, performance and impact challenges in RRF‑type spending, concerns on rule of law remedial measures, and risks that CAP flexibility undermines the common policy and fair competition.
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