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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 Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Closing remarks on the TRAN committee’s transport‑focused amendments to the European Competitiveness Fund opinion, followed by practical information on the replacement of the Chair for the afternoon session and acknowledgment of coordinators and vice‑presidents involved.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The DRF Monitoring Group presents its recent country work, missions and horizontal priorities, prompting calls for more consistent, transparent scrutiny across member states, after which rapporteur Sippel and groups react to the failed extension of the interim CSAM detection regulation, debating legal bases, data protection and Council–Parliament dynamics while pointing to the forthcoming permanent CSAM file.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
IFRS and ISSB leadership present their mandate, recent standard‑setting work and cooperation with the EU, followed by MEP questions on geopolitical fragmentation risks, US and Asian engagement, and implications for the global financial and sustainability reporting architecture.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
Final AFCO votes on pilot projects and preparatory actions are held before the Chair closes the first part of the meeting and announces the timing and location of upcoming sessions.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Committee examination of the ESF regulation in National and Regional Partnership Plans, with the rapporteur’s call for earmarking for youth, education, culture and sport, followed by group positions on flexibility versus binding quotas and a closing exchange with the Commission on NRPPs, social investment shares and ESF’s role for skills and inclusion.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Rapporteur and MEPs set out transport‑related priorities for the ECF, including links with CEF and TEN‑T, clean and zero‑emission mobility, dual‑use and military mobility, technological neutrality, nuclear and fossil‑fuel concerns, budget constraints, and the Commission clarifies the fund’s design, governance and synergies.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Linked questions and responses focus on what additional EU instruments and diplomatic leverage can curb Russia’s recruitment and trafficking of foreign fighters, how to work with African and Asian governments, and how Ukraine manages coerced fighters and foreign volunteers. The EEAS details existing EU actions, including pressure on Russia, guidance to EU delegations, cooperation with partner countries, and efforts toward accountability and victim support.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
MEPs question EU competence, incentives, HTA, data standards and screening for rare diseases, followed by an expert panel on ORPHA coding, interoperability, newborn screening and EU‑level guidance, and concluding with the formal closure of the SANT workshop and announcement of next steps.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The committee conducts its main voting block, first adopting amendments and the final report on Rule 135 regarding appointments to EU agencies and bodies, then setting up and carrying out a complex series of compromise and individual votes on the report on implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is ultimately rejected in the final roll‑call vote.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
External experts present an INTA-commissioned study on defining and mapping Chinese industrial overcapacity in key sectors, followed by an MEP–Commission–expert debate on the suitability of current EU trade and industrial instruments, China’s internal policy responses and possible future EU actions before the Chair closes the public session.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Introduction and political debate on the limited Eurovignette revision, focusing on whether and how to include trailers in CO2‑differentiated tolling, technical feasibility, alignment with HDV CO2 standards, and divergent positions between rapporteur, groups and Commission on timing, scope and incentives.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Eurostat’s Director‑General outlines strategic priorities on defence, ESA and balance of payments revisions, housing, energy and agriculture statistics and budget needs, followed by MEPs’ questions on going beyond GDP, using private and multi‑source data, and the treatment of housing guarantees in government debt.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
MEPs from several groups question the experts on EU strategic autonomy from the US, operationalising Ukrainian battlefield innovation (drones, counter‑drones), use of frozen Russian assets and structures for permanent experience‑sharing, to which the experts respond with lessons from Minsk, the need to treat Wagner/Africa Corps as GRU tools, urgent financial support, integrating Ukrainian robotics into EU programmes, diversified co‑production and supply chains, and joint counter‑sabotage strategies.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
NGO, victim, journalist, and Ukrainian officials present detailed evidence on South Asian and African recruitment networks, trafficking indicators, coercive practices, numbers and origins of foreign fighters, deployment and casualty patterns, and the social, economic, and psychological impact on affected families.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair formally closes the POSEI agenda point, thanks the Court of Auditors and participants, announces the coordinators’ meeting, and indicates when AGRI committee work will resume in the afternoon.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Chair opens the TRAN meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and conducts the full morning voting sequence on air transport, tourism, the AI omnibus opinion, and pilot projects/preparatory actions for the future EU budget.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Chair and delegation representatives open the hearing on Russia’s recruitment of third‑country nationals, set the human rights and international law context, link to Parliament’s urgency resolution, and frame the issue as trafficking and exploitation requiring EU and partner‑country action.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
The workshop is opened in the context of Parliament’s upcoming own‑initiative report on an EU rare disease action plan, with experts detailing the European rare disease data ecosystem and then presenting the clinical, socio‑economic burden and case for EU‑level criteria on genomic newborn screening and a binding rare disease plan.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Introductory exchange with the Cypriot Education Minister on Presidency priorities for Erasmus+ 2028–2034, teachers and AI, youth policy and sport, followed by coordinated Q&A on teachers and VET investment, Erasmus+ budget and inclusiveness, youth dialogue, sport integrity and Cyprus-specific schooling issues.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The committee holds an in‑depth exchange on Slovakia’s criminal code amendment linked to the Beneš decrees, with the Commission and experts outlining legal context, minority‑rights risks and continuing confiscations, followed by political groups questioning EU competences, enforcement tools and possible follow‑up, before the Chair closes the item and connects it to broader DRF monitoring work.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Court of Auditors clarifies its position on POSEI, outlines risks linked to integration into broader funds and value-chain weaknesses, and reiterates three key recommendations, followed by the Commission’s acceptance of these recommendations, its planned actions with Member States, and an explanation of how outermost regions are reflected in the future MFF and Article 349 TFEU framework.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The three Ukrainian speakers outline Ukraine as a laboratory of AI‑ and drone‑based warfare, redefine Europe’s security frontier on the Dnipro/Donbas, detail the global and covert architecture of Russian aggression (Wagner/Africa Corps, energy, migration, sabotage), and dismantle myths about drones, timelines and costs while arguing for tougher sanctions, confiscation of Russian assets, and integrating Ukraine’s defence industry and combat‑proven robotics into the EU industrial base.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Initial remarks on Russian military‑societal dynamics are followed by a brief incident of order in the committee and the chair’s formal reopening of the sitting, culminating in the announcement of a focused panel on Ukraine, EU defence preparedness and new Union defence instruments with three Ukrainian experts linked to a recent mission to Kyiv.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
LIBE defines priorities for the Global Europe (NDICI) instrument, contrasting a human‑rights‑centred development policy with calls for stronger migration and readmission conditionality, before hearing back from the Tallinn mission to eu-LISA on interoperability, large‑scale IT systems and funding needs ahead of the next MFF.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
MEPs and the Commission examine terminating the underperforming Liberia FLEGT VPA and replacing it with a more effective Forest Partnership, then address other trade files including an extension of the International Olive Council agreement and the broad EU–Switzerland package on internal-market access, mobility and level playing field ahead of Swiss ratification.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
EP Vice‑President, Commission services, DG FINS and the Authority debate the 5% own‑resources rule, revenue diversification, corrective measures, value‑compliance and national law frictions, while stressing simplification and political feasibility, after which MEPs request clearer figures and less red tape and the co‑rapporteur closes by underlining broad support, defending the values clause, and urging swift, realistic reforms and national‑level advocacy.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the ECON meeting, adopts the agenda and frames the annual scrutiny of European statistics, followed by ESGAB’s presentation on governance, independence, AI and resource needs and a detailed Q&A with MEPs on revising Regulation 223/2009, legal safeguards, budgets and oversight mechanisms.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair introduces the POSEI item and the ECA presents its audit on POSEI’s objectives, budget use, limited diversification and structural challenges, after which coordinators and MEPs from several groups defend ring‑fenced funding, highlight trade and climate risks, question monoculture viability, call for youth and demography solutions, and seek safeguards and best‑practice sharing for diversified, food‑secure outermost agriculture.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
LIBE Chair Zarzalejos opens the meeting, adjusts the agenda, announces rapporteurships and coordinators’ decisions, then the committee moves to the UN Cybercrime Convention recommendation and the draft opinion on the EU–Switzerland agreements package, with rapporteurs and groups setting out legal safeguards, human‑rights concerns and positions on free movement and Schengen cooperation.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
Representatives from multiple European political foundations outline converging demands for up to 100% EU financing, highlight inflation and structural costs, question the broad and politically sensitive Article 2 values test, criticise heavy and lengthy audits and IFRS requirements, and call for clearer rules on joint activities, indirect funding bans, and tendering, particularly to protect smaller and newly‑created foundations.
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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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