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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
What is said in the sittings, update by update, the latest first. Each update opens the video at the second it was said.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair opens the EMPL meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, notes membership and interpretation, and hears the rapporteur’s political debrief on the revision of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund before introducing the annual exchange on 2026 priorities with EMPL agencies and a first political Q&A on their mandates, data needs and links to EMPL legislative work.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The chair opens the LIBE DRFMG meeting on civic space, presents the objectives and structure, and FRA provides data on shrinking civic space, NGO vulnerability and upcoming EU instruments such as the Democracy Shield, civil society strategy and funding tools.
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The afternoon session opens with the Commission’s plan to restrict nitrous oxide to the general public under REACH, MEPs’ demands on youth protection, online sales and national measures, the Commission’s closing confirmation of the REACH route, and concludes with explanations of votes on earlier files and the formal adjournment of the sitting.
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The Commission outlines lessons from the Tempe and Adamuz rail accidents and planned strengthening of ERA and EU safety rules, followed by group and national interventions on sabotage, systemic failures and political responsibility in Greece and Spain, after which the Chair resumes the sitting under Rule 72 and conducts a major voting block on urgencies, vehicle emissions, package travel, the Ombudsman resolution and WTO/Youndé trade.
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After closing the Ombudsman file and changing agenda, the Commission presents the ‘Safe Hearts’ plan and its obesity focus, followed by group and individual MEPs stressing recognition of obesity as a chronic disease, prevention, labelling, social determinants and anti‑stigma messages, before the Commission wraps up by prioritising children and full implementation of EU health instruments.
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From opening of the sitting and referral of the Ombudsman report, through the rapporteur’s and Ombudswoman’s presentations, Commission reaction, and a polarised debate among groups and individual MEPs on transparency, NGOs, migration and AI, to catch‑the‑eye statements and institutional closings ahead of the vote.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
DG Budget defends LIFE evaluation criteria as compliant with the Regulation, explains implementation of the 2024 guidance on lobbying‑related activities, addresses questions on targeted lobbying, errors and possible financial or contractual consequences, and concludes with clarifications on the ‘don’t write it vs don’t do it’ distinction, requested written follow‑up and adjournment of the meeting.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
MEPs press for project‑level identification of experts for democratic scrutiny, confronting CINEA and DG Budget on GDPR‑based anonymisation and Parliament’s discharge powers, and then query the outsourcing of expert management, publication of expert names and overall numbers under the external framework contract.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
MEP Fidanza challenges CINEA on large‑scale funding of advocacy NGOs, alleged political influence and non‑implementation of 2024 guidelines, while CINEA defends the objectivity of its expert‑based system and explains how and when the new guidance has been applied to grants.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
CINEA presents the legal framework, evaluation process and use of independent experts for LIFE calls, followed by MEP questions on conflicts of interest, expert networks, incentives and rotation, and CINEA’s description of safeguards and sanctions.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The chair opens the scrutiny working group, adopts the agenda, recalls confidentiality and webstreaming rules, and co‑rapporteurs define the scope, rationale and expectations of the inquiry into CINEA’s management of LIFE and related programmes.
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Introduction by Chair, rapporteur and Commission to the debate on the proposed EU regulation on online child sexual abuse, the planned EU Centre, and the balance between child protection, privacy and encryption.
Statements on EU–Armenia relations, the 2025 peace declaration with Azerbaijan and Armenia’s EU path are followed by successive voting blocks on the EP–Commission framework agreement, internal security and AI files, and then budgetary, social, enlargement and defence‑industrial resolutions until suspension of the sitting.
Parliamentary groups confront von der Leyen’s Gaza/Iran stance, debate international‑law constraints on sanctions and military action, and connect Middle East escalation to EU energy security, industrial competitiveness and defence integration.
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Formal opening of the sitting, agenda‑setting for the European Council and initial linkage between competitiveness, MFF, Ukraine, defence, migration and the escalating Iran–Middle East and energy security context.
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Final voting sequence on the Jimenez Lara housing crisis report, including the oral amendment on housing speculation and fundamental rights and the series of roll‑call and split votes on paragraphs and amendments 64–99 with outcomes announced.
Completion of urgent and institutional voting items, including emission-credit rules, insolvency law, the EU Talent Pool agreement, and appointments and reports concerning the EIB, ECB, EBA and EPPO.
Opening of the 2026–2027 sitting with statements on International Women’s Day, cyberviolence and feminist rights, followed by formal session opening, presentation of European Order of Merit laureates, and announcements on disciplinary rulings and recording rules.
Council and Commission present the ‘One Europe, One Market’ roadmap and the Single Market and Competitiveness Report, followed by MEPs’ positions on regulatory barriers, sovereignty, deeper integration and a potential 28th regime, and closing orientations on expected growth and industrial impacts.
From the rapporteur’s initial diagnosis and five‑pillar plan through the Commission’s instruments and competence limits, MEPs confront structural causes of the housing crisis, EU vs national responsibilities and regulatory options, ending with the Commissioner and rapporteur framing the report as a pragmatic compromise before the item is closed and the vote announced.
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Short interventions cover trade, security, funding instruments and RRF deadlines, followed by detailed criticism of the Mercosur agreement, EU funding choices, support for eastern border regions, and the formal adjournment of the plenary sitting.
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Links between external conflicts, sanctions and EU energy costs are debated alongside internal issues such as digital access, migration, security, social policy, and divergent national responsibilities versus EU‑level tools to manage fuel prices and rule‑of‑law concerns.
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Parliament examines the scale and causes of gender pay and pension gaps and related EU measures, exposing sharp political divides over competence, enforcement and care policies, then hears the presentation of the insolvency law harmonisation directive aimed at supporting the Capital Markets Union while safeguarding national systems and workers.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Under Rule 66(4), a further minority opinion denounces the report as the final component of a mass deportation plan comparable to US practices, warning of racial profiling, automatic and potentially long or indefinite detention, de facto elimination of voluntary return, and entry bans without criminal conviction, arguing that the EU is breaching its own fundamental rights commitments; the Chair notes these opinions will be annexed to the report and formally closes the meeting.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Tineke Strik tables a minority opinion stating that the report is built on a misleading narrative blaming non-compliant returnees and portraying them as security threats, contradicting the EU Return Coordinator’s analysis; she criticizes the lack of impact assessment and warns that punitive measures, including deportations to third-country return hubs with likely detention and legal limbo, will violate fundamental rights and further erode evidence-based migration policymaking.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The EPP shadow rapporteur welcomes the vote as long-awaited progress after years of deadlock, arguing that revising the ineffective 2008 directive will strengthen the EU’s capacity to tackle irregular migration, restore citizens’ trust in migration policy, combat human smuggling, and proceed rapidly to trilogues on the basis of a broad and clear majority around the rapporteur’s compromise.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
An S&D member presents a minority opinion arguing that the adopted report, by allowing return hubs in third countries with possible indefinite detention and unclear legal responsibility or transparency, violates Article 2 TEU values, undermines human dignity, voluntary return, appeal rights and legal safeguards, and risks turning returns policy into a trade in persons contrary to EU geopolitical and value-based interests.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair explains the voting order, conducts a series of roll-call votes rejecting a proposal for rejection and the compromise amendments while adopting the alternative compromise amendments, then puts the amended draft text to a final vote where it is adopted, followed by a separate vote granting a mandate to enter interinstitutional (trilogue) negotiations, which is also adopted.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair confirms interpretation, quorum, and announces substitute members for the vote, then gives the floor to rapporteur Malik Asmani, who frames the file as the final and highly sensitive element of the Migration Pact, presents his aim for a balanced text combining effective return policy with fundamental rights, and calls for a broad centrist majority and swift mandate for trilogue negotiations.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair opens the LIBE extraordinary meeting in Strasbourg, presents the draft agenda, and an S&D shadow rapporteur invokes the Rules of Procedure to oppose the agenda and request postponement of the vote on the returns regulation; the committee votes electronically on the postponement request, which is rejected, and the agenda is adopted.
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
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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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