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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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MEPs debate the REGF report linking better regulation to competitiveness, burden reduction and social and climate standards, before questioning Council and Commission on the planned European Research Area Act, focusing on fragmentation, mobility, investment gaps and the creation of a genuine single market for research.
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The President opens the sitting, confirms procedural matters and agenda despite contested requests, then moves to the presentation and full political debate on the revised EP–Commission Framework Agreement covering Parliament’s quasi‑initiative powers, accountability tools and institutional balance.
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MEPs from sectoral committees present their opinions on adapting performance indicators and DNSH rules before final political remarks on EU competences, with the Chair closing the joint meeting and requesting written follow‑up from the Commission.
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Co‑rapporteurs, shadows and other MEPs question ECA and Commission on EU added value, simplification, indicator gaps and overlaps, DNSH legal basis and timing, climate and gender tracking, and audit and control powers, prompting detailed methodological and legal clarifications.
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Chairs open the joint BUDG–CONT meeting, adopt the agenda and minutes, and frame the session around the new performance regulation with initial ECA assessment and Commission reply on the proposed single horizontal framework.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Ivanova details the Court’s concrete recommendations on governance and legal structure, the Commission defends its proposal while accepting to re‑insert key agricultural provisions into CAP law and strengthen crisis‑preparedness tools, and the rapporteurs and chair conclude that Parliament must substantially rework the CAP package before the chair formally closes the meeting and announces the next AGRI sessions.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
MEPs and national MPs present national measures, legal gaps and differing views on regulation, anonymity, resource allocation and engagement of men and boys, stressing democracy and human‑rights stakes; panelists respond on security risks, risks of authoritarian overreach and the need for feminist tech governance and public infrastructure, before EIGE and the Chair close with key takeaways, consent and youth research, and practical next steps for the EU’s work on digital violence against women.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair steers the discussion to platform responsibilities, with Microsoft detailing AI‑amplified deepfake pornography, the StopNCII partnership and the need to align corporate practice with EU law, followed by EIGE’s evidence on cyber‑harassment and its impact on women’s participation in democracy, linking survey data to demands for stronger platform accountability, remedies and prevention measures.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
CAP and CMO rapporteurs and shadows from multiple groups respond to the ECA opinion, warning of reduced predictability, de facto renationalisation, legal and budgetary uncertainty, risks for market measures and sectoral schemes, and highlighting specific concerns on environmental ambition, outermost regions and food security under the proposed framework.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The chair introduces the Court of Auditors’ assessment of the Commission’s CAP architecture, and ECA Member Ivanova presents concerns about the loss of a dedicated CAP fund, rising complexity, fragmentation and weak traceability, while also noting potential benefits of greater flexibility and performance‑based implementation if matched by clearer rules and controls.
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The rapporteur and shadows question the DGs on key budgetary, staffing, IT, energy and communication choices for 2027, the DGs provide detailed clarifications on financial assumptions, contracts, lifecycle choices and communication tools, and the rapporteur and Chair conclude the work on the estimates and announce the follow-up in the Budgets and CONT committees.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
After recalling her own online attacks, the Chair convenes a panel of experts: a Polish journalist on coordinated cyberbullying and gendered disinformation driving women from public life, a former Georgian MP on gender narratives as hybrid warfare and an EU enlargement security issue, and an academic who characterises technology‑facilitated gender‑based violence as structural and proposes feminist, survivor‑centred regulatory priorities.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Rapporteur Knotek defends the committee’s role in strengthening control and transparency within the ECF and invites amendments; the Chair then formally closes the debate, announces the amendment deadline (9 March, 14:00) and the committee vote date (15 April), and reminds members of the upcoming joint budget committee meeting.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
A left-group MEP criticizes the ECF’s core logic of de-risking private investment with public money, warns that merging 14 funds and allowing intra-fund flexibility undermines democratic budgetary control, and asks how Parliament can prevent the Commission from shifting resources and eroding its budgetary authority.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Shadow rapporteurs stress the need to simplify applications and reporting without weakening transparency, highlight support for innovation, SMEs and financial instruments, and refer to the European Court of Auditors’ opinion while calling for strong roles for OLAF, EPPO and ECA through targeted amendments.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The Commission representative explains the structural competitiveness challenge, the consolidation of 14 programmes into the ECF, its directly managed and selection-based nature, simplification via a single rulebook and gateway, use of financing not linked to costs with safeguards, and the relationship with cohesion instruments for addressing territorial disparities.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair links EU debates to external policy and invites UN Women Brussels, which outlines shrinking civic space, global trends of online violence against women in politics and media, under‑reporting and weak remedies, highlights EU legislation as a reference, and analyses transnationally funded anti‑rights movements while urging stronger EU accountability, multilateralism and feminist partnerships in key external instruments.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Rapporteur Ondřej Knotek outlines the Budgetary Control Committee’s focus on transparency, governance and evaluation, flags weaknesses in geographical balance, technical assistance and reporting, and presents his amendments on OLAF/EPPO/ECA competences, third-country obligations, and safeguards for financing not linked to costs.
The Chair resumes the meeting on the 2027 EP draft estimates and invites DG FINS, DG INLO, DG ITEC and DG COMM to present overall budget trends, buildings and SPAAK renovation, IT and cybersecurity priorities, and communication budget constraints and projects.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The Chair reopens the meeting, introduces the agenda item on the draft opinion to ITRE regarding the European Competitiveness Fund, outlines its link to defence research and innovation, and explains the speaking order between rapporteur, Commission and shadows.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The chair and Commission outline the urgent amendment to the organic regulation following the Herbaria ruling, detailing trade‑equivalence extensions, logo rules and simplifications; the rapporteur and MEPs then debate equivalence, reciprocity, market access and logo credibility, with the Commission and rapporteur closing on data‑driven, fast‑track work and limited, targeted amendments.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair introduces the Commissioner for Equality, who presents the new Gender Equality Strategy and details EU legislative and enforcement tools against online and technology‑facilitated violence, including the Violence Against Women Directive, DSA obligations and the European Democracy Shield, with emphasis on national transposition and education on consent and stereotypes.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The committee votes on the remaining amendments (including compromise amendments and blocks of identical amendments), then proceeds to the final roll‑call vote adopting the opinion on the digital omnibus on AI, after which the Chair congratulates members, notes there is no AOB, announces the next Brussels meeting in March, and closes the session.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The committee votes amendment by amendment starting with 62, including a compromise amendment and several checks by electronic vote (notably on amendments 65, 102 and 103), deciding on the core modifications to the draft CULT opinion on the digital omnibus.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair presents the opinion on the Commission’s digital omnibus proposal amending the AI Act, stressing time pressure and the importance of AI literacy, after which the rapporteur outlines support for the text but warns against weakening key safeguards, defends maintaining deployers’ obligations on AI literacy, opposes implementation delays, and calls for clear labelling of AI‑generated content and formally approved codes of practice.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The chair opens the AGRI meeting, adopts the agenda, and the rapporteur presents the committee’s stance against a 20% CAP cut before members vote on all amendments and adopt the opinion on the 2028–2034 MFF, confirming Parliament’s position on future CAP funding.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Switching to English for voting, the Chair conducts a test vote to verify the system, then reads the list of MEPs replaced by substitutes and confirms that the committee will vote on the sole agenda item: the opinion on the digital omnibus on AI.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Mme Nela RIEHL opens the extraordinary CULT committee meeting, confirms adoption of the agenda and previous minutes, announces available interpretation, webstreaming, and a coordinated decision deemed approved, and recalls rules on physical presence and proxy voting under Article 216(7) EP Rules as well as the cancelled ministers’ meeting.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Formal opening of the joint FEMM meeting for International Women’s Day, adoption of the agenda, explanation of speaking rules and logistics, and initial political framing of democracy, women’s rights and rising digital violence, leading into President Metsola’s institutional message on the new EU directive and online abuse.
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Janusz Lewandowski and 5 others
The committee opens the meeting, hears the Commission’s detailed €350m Emergency Aid Reserve transfer proposal, records political support and concerns over reserve sustainability and bundled crises, receives the Commission’s replies on early reserve use and future mobilisations, and then proceeds to and completes the vote on the 2027 budget guidelines (Commission section).
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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
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
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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