Following adoption, Renew announces its intention to submit a minority position under Rule 56(4), and the chair reminds members of the tight deadline to file it. The committee then turns to the opinion on the Council regulation on the multiannual financial framework (MFF), hears a brief confirmation from rapporteur Protas of broad compromises, adopts a series of compromise amendments and an individual amendment, approves the opinion by 25 votes to 3, and the chair closes with information on upcoming CONT meeting dates and the move to coordinators.
Before voting, the chair records formal substitutions of members and then conducts a series of votes on compromise amendments 1–21 and certain individual amendments to the PIF report, with repeated electronic checks confirming a stable majority in favor. The committee then holds the final vote on the report, adopting it by 15 votes to 12 with one abstention.
The chair announces interpretation and web-streaming arrangements and moves to item 3 on protection of the EU’s financial interests. The rapporteur thanks shadows from all groups, recalls the extensive technical meetings and wide‑ranging compromises across political groups, and underlines the technical, cross‑party nature and importance of protecting the EU’s financial interests.
The acting chair opens the CONT meeting, explains the delayed start, proceeds to adoption of the agenda, and hears a request (Freund) to postpone the vote on the PIF report, arguing chaotic procedure and insufficient treatment of the ID scandal and Hungary. An EPP representative (Zdechovský) opposes postponement, emphasizing anti‑corruption commitments and possibility to amend in plenary, after which the committee votes electronically and rejects the postponement, keeping the agenda as planned.
After announcing substitutions and confirming quorum, the committee holds electronic votes on the report on social media and youth (adopted) and on amendments and compromises to extend the CSAM interim regulation (final report rejected), with the Chair signalling that further procedural steps will follow and formally closing the meeting.
MEPs raise concerns that unilateral sanctions obstruct access to medicines, medical equipment and hygiene products, citing UN and academic evidence, and propose a dedicated committee debate and engagement with WHO to address humanitarian exemptions.
After closing the hearing item, the Chair gives the floor for a statement highlighting how unilateral sanctions can restrict access to medicines and medical supplies and proposing a SANT committee debate on reconciling sanctions with humanitarian and health obligations.
Experts brief MEPs on the prevalence, clinical and economic burden of hearing loss, low uptake of hearing devices and the HERE manifesto for an EU hearing health strategy, followed by questions on prevention, devices and inequalities, discussion of integrated sensory strategies and minimum EU‑level measures, and experts’ closing remarks on adult screening and future policy support.
Experts brief MEPs on the burden and comorbidities of hearing loss in the EU, present the HERE manifesto for an EU hearing health strategy, and answer questions on prevention, screening, inequalities in access and the design of a minimum EU package, stressing integrated lifelong care, levelling up national practices and the need to treat hearing loss as a public health priority ahead of forthcoming Lancet recommendations.
Following closure of the ECI hearing, the Chair opens a new item on AI’s impacts on media and democracy, with the Commission outlining the DSA, AI Act and media-law toolbox, civil society criticising surveillance-based platform models, industry describing AI assistants and ‘pluralism by design’, an audience-data provider detailing traffic and usage trends, and MEPs debating regulatory ambition, enforcement, media funding, and election-related risks with responses from the Commission and experts.
The rapporteur outlines the opinion’s priorities on integrating sex and gender in research, training and AI/medical devices, while MEPs from multiple groups call for an EU women’s health strategy, better recognition of underdiagnosed conditions, informed consent and balanced contraceptive responsibility, and the Chair and rapporteur set additional priorities and procedural next steps.
The rapporteur presents the draft opinion on gender inequalities in health, highlighting biases in research, training, AI and medical devices, while MEPs across groups call for an EU women’s health strategy, national plans, sex‑specific research and better diagnosis and care for under‑recognised conditions, before the chair and rapporteur close by underlining systemic male‑default bias and broad political support for stronger EU action.
The auditor answers MEPs’ questions on inequalities, funding cuts and monitoring needs, while MEPs reiterate core political messages on stable financing, governance and innovation access, and engage in a Q&A on HPV vaccination targets, future budget and prevention, followed by the ECA’s closing remarks and the Commission’s response to the audit.
MEPs from several groups respond to the audit, focusing on inequalities in access to modern therapies, the EU4Health budget cut and next MFF, transparency on EU funds, fragmentation of tools and governance risks, and delayed tobacco legislation and prevention measures.
MEPs from multiple groups question the effectiveness, funding stability and governance of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, focusing on inequalities, prevention, HPV vaccination and access to costly medicines, followed by detailed ECA replies on data gaps, post‑2027 uncertainty and needed monitoring reforms, and concluding with the Commission’s commitment to implement the audit’s recommendations and strengthen prioritisation, synergies and evaluation.
The European Court of Auditors presents its assessment of the Beating Cancer Plan’s implementation, flagging achieved initiatives, risks of overlaps, data gaps, weak indicators and sustainability issues, and issuing recommendations on coherence, funding and monitoring.
Members question the EIB on social and environmental conditionality, the balance between social and affordable housing, support for homelessness infrastructure, transparency and eligibility for Housing TechEU, and housing in the next MFF, with the EIB clarifying ESG safeguards, eligibility of shelters, innovation support and a positive MFF outlook before the Chair closes the exchange and announces next steps.
The acting chair opens the ENVI Public Health session, adopts the agenda and previous minutes, appoints rapporteurs, and introduces the European Court of Auditors’ special report on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, with the auditor outlining objectives, funding architecture, implementation status, inequalities, governance gaps and key recommendations accepted by the Commission.
Renew Europe raises EIB‑backed Irish and Flemish examples, calls for high‑volume integrated student housing schemes and asks about InvestEU timing, while the Greens press for moving Croatian cohesion funding from capacity‑building to construction and for safeguards against housing financialisation; the EIB replies on the need for proactive project promoters and on structuring private capital with long‑term, lower‑return models to keep rents affordable.
EPP and S&D question the EIB on the design and InvestEU link of the planned pan‑European investment platform, support for renovating low‑efficiency buildings, and ways to streamline EIB and intermediary governance to accelerate housing approvals, with the Vice‑President detailing platform architecture, renovation tools and measures to cut time to market while preserving impact controls.
The committee votes on discharge decisions and politically sensitive amendments for the EEAS, Ombudsman, EDPS, European Council/Council (discharge refused), EPPO, Court of Justice, EESC, Court of Auditors, Committee of the Regions, and all Joint Undertakings plus the Cybersecurity Competence Centre, before adopting final reports and closing the sitting.
The Chair opens the meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the exchange with the EIB Vice‑President, who outlines the scale of the housing crisis, recent EIB housing results, key lessons learnt and future objectives including modernising construction and leveraging EU funds.
PETI and FEMM underline the ECI’s democratic role and links to fundamental rights and gender-based violence, the Commission presents its preliminary position and ongoing study work, ECI organisers and a survivor define and document conversion practices and propose EU legal avenues, and two Q&A rounds with MEPs, Commission, Council Presidency and EESC explore legal competences, safeguards, consent, scope, and next institutional steps.
The Chair reopens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, announces a new rapporteur and then formally frames the public hearing on the ECI to ban conversion practices, detailing its legal basis, institutional participation, and procedural timeline for the Commission’s response.
Members examine the rapporteur’s and shadows’ positions on the opinion to the Horizon Europe 2028–2034 framework (governance, simplification, error rates, OLAF/EPPO links) and then proceed to voting on the Gerbrandi report granting discharge to the Commission for the 2024 general budget with extensive amendment votes.
The Chair opens the CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and hears the Cypriot Presidency present the Council recommendation on the 2024 discharge, followed by MEPs’ questions and the Council’s replies on error rates, cohesion funds, RRF transparency, Ukraine controls and the unresolved Parliament discharge of the Council.
The rapporteur closes the political debate by stressing cooperative support for North Macedonia’s EU path, while the Chair formally concludes the item, sets the amendment deadline and committee vote date, confirms no further business, and announces the next AFET meetings before adjournment.
MEPs, the Commission and the EEAS review the political window for North Macedonia’s accession, underlining the need for constitutional amendments, rule‑of‑law and public administration reforms, anti‑discrimination measures, media freedom safeguards and continued CFSP alignment as prerequisites for moving forward with the fundamentals cluster and deeper integration.
The rapporteur and MEPs from key groups outline North Macedonia’s long-standing candidate status, reform progress and remaining rule-of-law gaps, while stressing citizens’ fatigue, constitutional impasse on minority recognition, and risks for regional stability if commitments on the July 2022 conditions, anti-discrimination and judiciary independence are not met. They underline the strategic importance of the country for EU security and credibility, call for depoliticisation, better protection of minorities and media, and insist bilateral disputes must not derail but also cannot be detached from the accession framework.
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