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How to watch the European Parliament plenary sessionStrengthening Inclusive Democratic Participation and Civic Engagement Within the European Union: schedule and how to watch live
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs engage in three rounds contrasting views on ICE’s mandate and abuses, risks of democratic backsliding and coup dynamics in the US, possible EU sanctions and support to NGOs, and the gravity of children’s rights violations and EU credibility.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The ECA clarifies the audit’s scope, selection shortcomings and indicator gaps and reiterates its recommendations, while the Commission distinguishes strategic projects from NGO grants, explains CINEA’s implementing role, provides figures and geographical coverage, outlines work on indicators, transparency and best practice sharing for the next MFF, and the Chair closes the joint meeting.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Opening of the annual structured dialogue with Commissioner McGrath and his overview of 2025 achievements on simplification packages, the insolvency directive, the Rule of Law Report, the upcoming ‘EU Inc’ 28th regime, and plans for the next MFF and Justice Programme with reinforced rule‑of‑law conditionality.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
Members review the Copenhagen–Greenland mission’s feasibility and focus, debate petitions on EU constitutional issues and the use of sincere cooperation regarding unanimity in Council, decide against an AFCO follow-up debate, raise concerns over limits on AFCO missions, and formally close the meeting.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
AFCO agrees a shortlist of experts for the joint hearing on democracy and elections in the AI era, then consolidates political group proposals for the European Court of Auditors’ 2027+ work programme and decides which audit topics to transmit.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Commission defends NREP as an integrated, performance‑based framework with a single rulebook and reinforced transparency, after which the AGRI Chair highlights the political significance of this MFF reform and contrasts the Commission’s emphasis on coherence with the Court’s concerns about blending different policy logics.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Final Q&A block between MEPs and experts on scope, harmonisation, tax design and SME impacts of an EU 28th regime, followed by the Chair’s formal closure outlining next procedural steps and coordinators’ meeting arrangements.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Right and far‑right MEPs contest NGO funding, traceability and alleged misuse within LIFE, whereas Renew, Greens, Left and other groups defend LIFE’s environmental impact, stress generic EU‑wide monitoring weaknesses, provide examples of benefits for farmers and vulnerable groups, call for stronger but streamlined follow‑up, and argue to secure LIFE as a standalone programme in the next MFF with clearer transparency safeguards.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
ECA representatives present their opinion on the National and Regional Partnership (NREP) framework, analysing its architecture, EU added value, performance framework, payment logic, absorption risks and implications for legality, regularity and accountability of EU spending.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Benifei details recent ICE operations, political fallout in Washington and implications for EU policy, Human Rights Watch outlines systemic abuses and recommended EU measures, and EEAS explains the EU’s human-rights framework and approach to the US and ICE.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Rapporteur, shadows and other MEPs debate the level of EU harmonisation on periodic tests, including older vehicles, trailers and motorcycles, use of remote sensing and advanced emissions checks, delegated acts and cost impacts, with the Commission defending stricter testing for safety and environmental reasons before the rapporteur outlines compromise avenues and the Chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Coordinators and other MEPs question the Commissioner on financing digital and media literacy, age‑verification tools, youth checks and Agora EU, sport funding and piracy, safeguarding minors in sport, Special Olympics support, and platform responsibilities, with the Commissioner detailing current and planned measures on sport investment, anti‑piracy, youth mainstreaming, parental digital skills, DSA‑based platform obligations, and cultural and educational mobility including UK cooperation.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens agenda item 10, sets the human-rights context around ICE practices in the US, recalls UN and Inter-American condemnations, and frames the core question of which tools the EU has towards a key ally before introducing the speakers.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chairs open the joint meeting, adopt the agenda and explain that the proposed NREP fund would merge cohesion, agriculture and related policies into a single national planning instrument, stressing implications for EU budget allocation, governance, transparency and parliamentary scrutiny.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The rapporteur gives an overall positive but critical assessment of LIFE strategic projects and raises detailed questions on selection, additional financing and afterlife, while EPP and S&D members ask about CINEA’s role, contract structures, impacts on farmers, transparency, outermost regions and the place of LIFE in the next MFF.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
After closing the public sitting, coordinators in camera discuss rapporteurship allocation for own-initiative and implementation reports, debate the points-based distribution table and COP authorisation, and postpone final decisions pending clarification of the points situation.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Presentation of the European business wallet proposal as a harmonised digital tool for cross‑border identification and signatures, followed by initial reactions from political groups on digital sovereignty, interoperability, SME burdens and the risk of overlapping EU digital tools and identifiers.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Rapporteur Voss, political groups and the Commission present and debate the proposed European business wallet as a harmonized digital tool to cut administrative burdens, safeguard EU digital sovereignty and support SMEs, discuss risks of overlapping instruments and fragmentation, and agree on safeguards and the timetable for the JURI opinion and subsequent legislative procedure.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
In the roadworthiness package, the rapporteur and shadows set priorities for harmonising and digitalising vehicle registration while managing data protection, administrative burden and paper access, and the Commission argues for ambitious mobile certificates, mutual recognition and alignment with end‑of‑life vehicle rules while keeping bicycle registration optional.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The committee conducts the second voting session on the 2028–2034 MFF interim report, going through all amendment blocks, split votes and electronic checks before adopting the interim report in a final roll-call vote.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Final remarks on protecting ICC judges from US sanctions, references to the EU blocking statute, and calls to keep judicial independence and international rule of law on Parliament’s agenda before moving to the next item.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The AGRI committee closes the EFSA item and proceeds to votes on forest reproductive material and chemical products files, then adopts guidelines for the 2027 EU budget and the international olive oil and table olives agreement before adjourning ahead of the joint meeting with BUDG and REGI.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The Chair opens the AFCO meeting and budget pilot projects item, then the rapporteur presents the revised EP–Commission framework agreement and members vote on amendments and the final report adopting the text.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair opens the structured dialogue, recalls Parliament’s solidarity with Ukraine, and frames expectations on youth, culture, sport and online safety, followed by the Commissioner’s wide‑ranging introductory statement on the war in Ukraine, symbols in sport, DSA enforcement for minors, the new cyberbullying action plan, and youth participation in EU policymaking and sport.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The joint CONT–ENVI meeting is opened, the agenda and purpose are set, the ECA presents the LIFE strategic projects’ rationale and main weaknesses in selection, indicators, funding and sustainability, and DG ENV and DG CLIMA respond with overall support for the instrument while accepting most recommendations and outlining planned improvements.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Professor Ringer and the FISMA official respond on limits of legal recourse against the US, weaknesses of current tools, technical readiness to amend the blocking statute’s annex, and broader work on EU economic and payment sovereignty, before Judge Hoeller and the chairs close the hearing with calls for continued parliamentary pressure and concrete protections for international judges.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
The committee closes the DEBRA item and turns to the rapporteur’s draft report on financial‑sector taxation, with groups stating political priorities and outlining the procedural calendar, before opening a new hearing where think‑tanks and practitioners present proposals and legal constraints for an optional 28th tax regime for start‑ups.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
MEPs from various groups question the effectiveness and non‑activation of the blocking statute, condemn US measures equating judges with terrorists, highlight threats to ICC and UN independence, raise concerns about EU payment and digital sovereignty, and frame EU inaction as political double standards and even complicity in obstruction of justice.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The rapporteur presents the draft EU Youth Strategy implementation report, political groups and EMPL stress access, inclusion and quality employment, the Commission outlines its approach to the next strategy, and the Chair closes with the timetable for amendments and inter‑committee coordination.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Commission presents its 2040 vision for a pan‑European high‑speed rail network, associated cost and financing strategy, interoperability and industrial policy measures, followed by MEP questions on cohesion, military mobility, accessibility, affordability, competition and financing gaps and a detailed Commission reply on network coverage, funding models, climate resilience, military mobility and industrial scale‑up.
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European Political Community - International Summit
European Commissioner Dan JØRGENSEN in Antalya, Türkiye for the COP31
Strengthening Inclusive Democratic Participation and Civic Engagement within the European Union - Presidency events
EC Midday press briefing of 12/11/2026
Karlsruhe – Un lieu de travail idéal
European Commissioner Marta KOS in Warsaw, Poland for the Rebuild Ukraine Conference
EC press point and signing ceremony by European Commissioner Ekaterina ZAHARIEVA and Australian Minister of Industry and Innovation Tim AYRES on Australia’s association to Horizon Europe
European Political Community - 2 - International Summit
European Political Community - 1 - International Summit
European Commissioner Andrius KUBILIUS in Italy
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting
Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
7th Inter-Parliamentary Committee Meeting On Evaluation Of The European Union Agency For Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) Activities
Issues raised by bot farming and social media anonymity in elections
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