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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)
The North Sea–Baltic and North Sea–Mediterranean Coordinators respond on Rail Baltica, gauge change in the Baltics and Finland, port and infrastructure security, causes of cross-border delays and cost overruns, the underused Swiss rail network, and climate-resilient inland waterways facing chronic underfunding.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs from EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew, Greens and the Left question the witnesses on whether IORP II reforms deter new schemes, the weak performance of PEPP, social and political acceptance of pension reforms, risk limits and branding for PEPP, DB versus DC models, investment rules and the mobilisation of pension capital for SMEs and innovation, eliciting differentiated responses on supervision, incentives, product design and market depth.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Group coordinators and other MEPs question the financing and prioritisation of military mobility and dual-use TEN-T projects, cross-border and inland waterway challenges, CEF adequacy, modal shift from road to rail, and uneven, costly ERTMS deployment with laggard Member States.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the ECON hearing, sets out the mandate on the role of pension funds and insurers in capital markets and the IORP II/PEPP reviews, followed by detailed stakeholder statements from EIOPA, Dutch pension funds, Better Finance and Allianz on pension gaps, regulatory design, investment flexibility, consumer protection and the balance between guarantees and long‑term returns.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair and Johan Danielsson introduce the TEN-T agenda item and the legal-political mandate of European coordinators, followed by detailed presentations on the North Sea–Baltic and North Sea–Mediterranean Corridors and the horizontal ERTMS priority, covering geopolitical context, financing, decarbonisation, bottlenecks and deployment gaps.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair opens the TRAN meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then leads the full voting sequence on the vehicle registration documents proposal, including amendment votes, final roll-call adoption and approval of the negotiating mandate.
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The Chair formally closes the sitting, specifying the handling and transmission of adopted resolutions and announcing the opening date and place of the next part-session in Strasbourg.
Back-to-back explanations of vote outlining opposition to the EU anti-corruption directive on subsidiarity and legal-definition grounds, followed by support for the Global Gateway report framed as a pragmatic geopolitical and infrastructure investment tool rather than a vehicle for broader ideological agendas.
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Parliament votes on several consent agreements and EGF mobilisations, then adopts the Global Gateway resolution, concluding the formal decision-making phase before moving to explanations of vote.
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President Metsola resumes the sitting and steers a series of votes on the common return system, climate‑related objections, criminal law and child protection files, and the EU–US tariff implementation, culminating in adoption of the AI Digital Omnibus and mandates for inter‑institutional negotiations.
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Co‑rapporteurs and the Commission present Global Gateway as the EU’s value‑based connectivity offer versus China, while political groups contest its governance, development impact, transparency and geopolitical use before closing statements defend the initiative and rebut criticism of its orientation.
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The Chair opens the sitting, confirms the agenda and launches the common debate on the EU–US Turnberry tariff package, with the rapporteur, Commission, committees and groups setting out conditions, legal bases and political red lines before the Chair closes the item and announces the vote to follow.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The chair delivers closing remarks, thanks participants and interpreters, announces the next REGI committee meeting on 14 April 2026, and formally adjourns the extraordinary session.
Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The Executive Vice‑President delivers final remarks on cohesion policy, covering support for eastern border regions, defense‑related investments, data transparency on reallocations, territorial participation in future strategies, and the need to simplify governance across multiple funds ahead of upcoming EU budget debates.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
MEPs from several member states describe security pressures and economic decline in eastern and other border regions, call for more grants, inclusion in wider EU instruments, clarity on housing and Just Transition reallocations, reduced red tape and stronger partnership with local authorities, while warning against diverting cohesion funds from long‑term development to security at the expense of territorial balance.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Political group coordinators raise positions on using cohesion funds for security at the eastern flank, rule‑of‑law conditionality, transparency of reallocations, housing needs and potential ‘regional checks’, followed by the Commission’s first reply defending the eastern border strategy, voluntary defense spending and the operational use of new territorial strategies and available data.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The Executive Vice‑President is introduced for a structured dialogue and presents the new communication on EU eastern border regions together with the cohesion policy midterm review, detailing financial reallocations, priority areas, flexibility mechanisms and forthcoming territorial strategies such as islands, outermost regions and the ‘right to stay’.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The committee opens the extraordinary meeting, adopts the agenda and rapidly proceeds through the full amendment package on the REGI opinion for Horizon Europe, voting on compromise blocks and individual amendments before adopting the final opinion and briefly suspending for the next item.
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The Vice‑President opens the ECI item on an EU‑wide ban of conversion practices, with institutions outlining the legal and human‑rights framework, ECI rules and existing LGBTIQ+ strategy, followed by a plenary debate where MEPs set out contrasting positions on criminalisation standards, victim support, parental rights and limits of hate speech in the chamber.
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Council and Commission report on European Council outcomes covering Ukraine, sanctions, energy and ETS reform, defence, migration and the MFF, followed by political group reactions on Hungary, foreign interference, trade, security and the future of the single market.
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The President opens the sitting, settles agenda and procedural matters, then the Council and Commission frame the upcoming parliamentary debate on energy security, prices, sanctions and the Green Deal as the main policy context.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Vice‑President Sejourne closes by defending a strong linkage between Horizon Europe and the European Competitiveness Fund within a wider industrial strategy, warning that internal budget disputes without new own resources will weaken all programmes. He presents the Industrial Accelerator and calls for reinforced trade policy, internal market protection, European preference in strategic sectors and an increased EU budget before the chair closes the item.
A Portuguese mass petition challenges the Commission’s move towards mandatory motorcycle PTI across the EU on subsidiarity and effectiveness grounds, while DG MOVE defends the proposal with accident data, cost–benefit analysis and flexibility on vehicle categories, and the committee decides to keep the petition open in parallel with the ongoing legislative process.
Spanish petitioners and MEPs advocate for including a Central Pyrenees base tunnel in the CEF3 indicative list within the TEN‑T framework and for stronger EU support to expand Seville’s metro network under cohesion policy, as the Commission explains network/CEF prioritisation, shared management of ERDF and the need to mature projects to access future EU funding envelopes.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
MEPs question Sejourne on the 20% industry target, energy price gap, ETS revenues, administrative burden, sovereignty, treatment of steel, scope of ‘partners of trust’ and procurement reciprocity, with Sejourne defending targeted European‑preference rules, simplified permitting and a calibrated Competitiveness Fund.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The committee hears a trilogue update on the protection of adults file, adopts a corrigendum, confirms rapporteur and mission decisions, and the chair announces upcoming JURI meetings before formally closing the sitting.
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Members first examine a petition on Swedish ‘publisher licence’ data websites and the balance between GDPR and press freedom, in light of an ongoing CJEU case and national reforms, then turn to a petition on Raiffeisen Bank’s activities in Russia and Belarus, discussing the scope of the Charter, corporate due diligence rules and human‑rights sanctions listings while agreeing to keep the petition open for further Commission and Council consideration.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Vice‑President Sejourne outlines the new EU industrial doctrine and key elements of the draft Industrial Accelerator Act, followed by initial political reactions from EPP and S&D stressing urgency, industrial job losses, energy costs and financing needs beyond existing tools.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Rapporteur Hadjipantela and shadows discuss targeted EPPO/OLAF VAT data access, safeguards and review clauses, followed by rapporteur Ferber and shadows on the economic and financial aspects of the EU–Switzerland package, including financial market links, AML, tax cooperation and protection of the single market, before the Chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Vice‑President Kopacz presents her children’s rights work on war‑affected children, cross‑border family law, online protection, the new children’s rights test in impact assessments and pressures on NGOs, followed by MEPs’ questions on abducted Ukrainian children, online harms, vulnerable groups and equal rights, and Commission interventions on DSA/AI enforcement, child‑friendly justice, the Child Guarantee and mainstreaming children’s rights across EU policies.
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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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