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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 Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair closes the CULT meeting, confirms the digital amendment procedure and 27 March 2026 deadline within CULT’s remit, and announces the next April meeting in Brussels while wishing the rapporteur success with the opinion.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Experts Narciso, Müller and Calabrese analyse how AI amplifies election interference across the whole electoral cycle, erodes information integrity and disproportionately targets vulnerable candidates, while also being used by electoral authorities themselves; they argue existing EU digital rules must be robustly enforced and clarified for systems that influence elections ‘by consequence’, urging better data, observatories and red‑teaming, clearer accountability for platforms’ algorithms and political ads, and support for democratic, EU‑based tech ecosystems aligned with fundamental rights.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
External experts detail systemic AI threats to information ecosystems, marginalized candidates and election administration, analyse gaps in the AI Act and DSA regarding high‑risk tools and ‘intended to influence’ criteria, and stress the need for enforcement, observatories, stress‑testing and EU values‑driven tech models.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair thanks the ECA representatives and participants, formally closes the meeting, and informs members that the next TRAN Committee meeting will be held on 8 April while the originally scheduled 9 April meeting is cancelled.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Responding further, the ECA clarifies that inflation was excluded from its cost analysis and attributes overruns and delays to COVID‑19, the war in Ukraine, evolving regulation and unforeseen technical/geological challenges; she acknowledges only the Spanish side of the Basque case was audited, outlines how the new TEN‑T Regulation should improve joint planning and inclusion of access lines, notes it applies only to new projects, and states the Court has not issued an opinion on the revised CEF.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
LIBE, AFCO and UDS chairs formally open the joint hearing on ‘democracy, elections in the AI era’, outline the institutional set‑up and recent EU initiatives (AI Act, DSA, political ads rules), and frame AI as both an opportunity and a threat to electoral integrity, fundamental rights and democratic legitimacy, calling for resilient institutions and human‑centric governance structures.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Chairs from LIBE, UDS and AFCO open the joint hearing, set its structure and legal context, and frame AI’s impact on electoral procedures, fundamental rights, and democratic accountability, with the rapporteur calling for an EU observatory and stronger scrutiny.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The ECA representative identifies recurring causes of long delays in cross-border megaprojects, weak cost‑benefit analysis, insufficient stakeholder involvement and scope changes, drawing comparisons with practices in Switzerland and others; she details Rail Baltica’s issues such as lack of project maturity, design changes and incomplete design studies, references a joint report by Baltic national audit institutions, and notes that the ECA works on the basis of the project as approved by the Commission.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Commission explains that COVID-19 and Russia’s war against Ukraine have directly affected projects (including Rail Baltica) through input shortages and workforce disruption, while stressing that most audited projects show stable or reduced costs, reflecting generally sound project management; it highlights follow-up actions since the 2020 report, defends the 2030 TEN-T core deadline as a mobilising tool, and underscores CEF as an essential and hoped‑to‑be‑reinforced EU incentive for cross‑border links in the next MFF.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs debate the competition policy annual report, ECON’s opinion on the European Competitiveness Fund and the economic governance simplification package, before proceeding to electronic votes on the CMDI package, the Banking Union Annual Report and financial literacy.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The rapporteur presents the CULT opinion on the reinforced Youth Guarantee and the Commission explains implementation tools, monitoring mechanisms and the role of non‑formal learning, with emphasis on education‑to‑work transitions, soft skills and youth work recognition.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair notes the absence of several groups, opens the floor and then raises his own questions on how to align national priorities with the EU-wide TEN-T network, how CEF (mis‑transcribed as ZEF) cross-border financing can be steered to support the whole network, and how the Commission has followed up ECA recommendations on holistic ex‑ante analysis for megaprojects, including via the current CEF revision.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
A member questions why major cross-border projects like Rail Baltica have become significantly more expensive and delayed, asking the ECA whether it assessed non‑inflationary causes, differences between member states’ implementation, the impact of military mobility requirements (speed, axle load), and what concrete solutions and funding options it recommends.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
LIBE and IMCO chairs collect final clarifications from EPPO on competence conflicts and investigations, formally close the EPPO evaluation item and transition to the AI and elections hearing.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
After closing the sovereignty hearing, the committee turns to the European Court of Auditors’ special report on TEN‑T cross‑border mega‑projects, highlighting major cost increases, long delays and likely failure to meet the 2030 core‑network deadline. MEPs and the Commission debate causes such as weak ex‑ante assessments, national priorities and external shocks, while the ECA explains how revised TEN‑T rules and better governance may improve future projects before the chair closes the exchange and adjourns the meeting.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs question Kövesi on operational cooperation with national authorities, overlaps with OLAF, and divergent national practices, with a focus on Germany and Bulgaria, as she points to specialization (e.g. Guardia di Finanza) and mentalities as key determinants of case numbers; Greek MEPs then raise EPPO’s work on agricultural funds and the Tempi case, allowing Kövesi to describe good cooperation with Greek authorities, systemic conflicts of competence and limited judicial recourse, and her plan to reassess Greek follow‑up to EPPO requests, before the LIBE and CONT chairs close the EPPO session by reaffirming its role in protecting EU finances.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs from S&D, ECR and Renew probe EPPO’s needs to tackle large‑scale corruption and organized crime, asking about budget, staffing, delegated prosecutors, and priorities for the new Chief Prosecutor, while Kövesi links this to the anti‑corruption directive, insists on tripling EPPO’s budget and strengthening its role in the EU anti‑fraud architecture, and stresses reforms to secure EPPO’s full judicial independence and clarify competences in the forthcoming Regulation revision announced by the Commission.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Dominique Labourieux presents the Single Resolution Board’s assessment of a decade of banking union and remaining reform needs, then answers detailed MEP questions on EDIS design, MREL and resolution strategy choices, cross‑border cooperation and implications for stability and competitiveness.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Industry representatives for airports and rail detail security, digitalisation and supplier‑dependence challenges, calling for realistic threat prioritisation, EU support for security technologies and clarity on high‑risk vendors within long‑lived infrastructure. MEPs probe ownership rules, Huawei’s role in rail networks and SME participation, while speakers argue for pragmatic, architecture‑based ‘zero‑trust’ approaches rather than immediate supplier bans given legacy systems and cost constraints.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
EPPO Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi details how fraud against the EU budget was vastly underestimated, with exponential growth in VAT and customs cases linked to organized crime, and calls for revising the EPPO Regulation and PIF framework; EPP questions then focus on the disciplinary procedure against the Bulgarian European Prosecutor, EPPO’s notification to EU institutions, and methods for detecting complex VAT fraud while safeguarding strict internal ethics and disciplinary standards.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Political groups question experts on teacher authority, AI limits, child development and evidence standards, followed by an integrated expert synthesis and EU institutional statements from the Commission and Council Presidency that outline emerging policy lines and conclude the AI workshop.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Chairs from LIBE and CONT open the joint hearing, adopt the agenda and frame EPPO as central to protecting the EU budget, highlighting surging caseloads, sanctions and environmental crime debates, RRF‑related risks, and the need to align EPPO with the wider EU anti‑fraud architecture and provide adequate resources and powers.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The acting chair opens the TRAN hearing on sovereignty of EU transport infrastructure, then experts from ENISA and academia outline cyber‑security risks and geopolitical dependencies, notably around Chinese involvement in EU ports. MEPs question the tools, funding and regulatory approaches to harden critical infrastructure, manage technology dependencies and prepare for potential Chinese leverage over EU seaports, with ENISA and the China expert detailing risk‑management options and limits to decoupling.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
ECON committee holds its Single Supervisory Mechanism accountability hearing, with Claudia Buch outlining the state of euro area banks and supervisory priorities, followed by MEP questions on integration, proportionality, non‑bank risks, competitiveness and the digital euro.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair launches the CULT workshop on AI in classrooms and three academic experts set out core ethical, pedagogical and cognitive frameworks, highlighting evidence gaps, governance needs and regulatory safeguards relevant to EU policy instruments.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Closing part of the agenda item on media literacy and digital learning: an MEP links the strategy to reinforcing the ESF, the Commission (DG CONNECT and DG EAC) detail policy priorities on non‑formal media literacy, AI literacy and digital education scope, and the rapporteur and Chair conclude with final remarks and the amendment deadline.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
LIBE conducts its electronic voting session on PNR transfer agreements and pilot projects, then reconvenes jointly with IMCO to set up the procedural framework for voting on the AI omnibus proposal, including substitutions, amendment handling, links to plenary for trilogue authorisation and the co‑rapporteur’s positioning of the file as key to an AI‑friendly EU framework.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The ECON Chair and MEPs explore a potential lighter SME reporting regime, the impact of AI and digitalisation on standard‑setting, and how the EU’s simplification agenda aligns with IFRS/ISSB and CSRD interoperability, before the Chair closes the hearing.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair opens the agenda item on the draft EU strategy for media literacy and digital learning, with the rapporteur outlining a prevention‑oriented, citizen‑centred approach and shadow rapporteurs setting out group positions on integrating media and digital literacy into education, defending democracy, and clarifying the responsibilities and financing role of platforms while respecting national competences in education.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair formally closes the morning hearing on human trafficking and foreign recruitment for Russia’s war in Ukraine, reiterates Parliament’s political condemnation of these abuses, and announces the suspension of proceedings until the afternoon session.
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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