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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
In two Q&A rounds, ECA and Commission address MEPs’ questions on project maturity, deployment speed, overlaps with other EU instruments, risk appetite, technology prioritisation, permitting and regulatory barriers, ETS‑linked budget constraints, and the extent of unspent funds and replacement of national financing.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Members raise additional questions on age verification and addictive platform design, defence and financial-sector AI risks, timelines and legal personhood for AI systems, and call for stronger EU tools against structural online piracy of live sports and third-country AI competition.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The Energy Community parliamentary plenum is opened with strategic statements by the Commission, Kosovo presidency and Secretariat on energy market integration, crisis context and reducing Russian fuel dependence, followed by reports from contracting parties on electricity and gas reforms, interconnections and CBAM‑related challenges. MEPs, national representatives, the Commission, Secretariat and Kosovo co‑chair then debate CBAM design, regional gas and electricity integration, storage and diversification, monitoring of legislative alignment and use of EU instruments and corridors ahead of the July ministerial.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Members and the Chair question the Commission on customised indicators versus standardisation, the involvement of regions in monitoring within a more centralised MFF architecture, and the concrete scope of the 35 % climate target, with the Commission clarifying affected funds, regional participation and the distinction between simplified funding modes and harmonised performance tracking before closing the item.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Executive Vice-President responds on copyright and creator remuneration, DSA/DMA obligations for dominant platforms, support to AI startups and capital markets tools, implementation of the European Media Freedom Act, and the horizontal scope of the AI Act including AI agents and powerful models like Anthropic’s.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The CONT rapporteur and several MEPs critically assess the Innovation Fund’s low operational share, limited verified emission cuts, cancellations and overlaps, pressing the Commission on how it will reduce project failures, speed up implementation, remove regulatory obstacles and ensure stronger parliamentary oversight and better support for applicants.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The rapporteur and shadows set out political priorities and concerns on the performance framework, contesting over‑standardised indicators, calling for enforceable social and gender targets, stronger DNSH and biodiversity tracking, and warning against bureaucratic burdens and ill‑suited indicators for Erasmus+, Agora EU, culture, media and youth mobility.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
External experts present their feasibility study on the 28th tax regime, detailing its non‑harmonising legal base, coordination tools, and substantive tax recommendations, followed by MEPs’ questions on scope, safeguards, tax competition, and links with BFIT and DEBRA.
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The petitioner contests the EU system for assessing long-term toxicity and co-formulants in plant protection products, while DG SANTE defends the current CLP-based framework, and political groups clash over scientific trust, precaution, ‘cocktail effects’ and authorisation reassessment, with the committee deciding to keep the petition open for further Commission follow-up.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Members from several groups question the Commission on AI-driven copyright challenges, abuse of enforcement tools, Europe’s AI investment gap and SME burdens, media freedom concerns in Lithuania, and the design of the AI Omnibus and rules for AI agents and training data transparency.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
INTA examines the newly concluded EU–Australia FTA from mandate to safeguards, with the Commission detailing the deal’s content and procedure, MEPs and AGRI voicing support but stressing agricultural risks, GIs and cumulative TRQ impacts, and DG TRADE/DG AGRI responding on enforcement, quotas, safeguards and ratification timeline.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair opens the item on the new performance regulation, and the Commission presents the objectives, horizontal principles and indicators, including climate, social and gender tracking and the new single funding gateway, framing how these changes will impact programmes such as Erasmus+ and Agora EU.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
The Chair opens the FISC meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports on coordinators’ decisions, and introduces the policy context and study mandate for an optional 28th tax regime to support EU competitiveness under unanimity constraints.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The joint CONT–ENVI meeting is opened, the agenda adopted and interpretation arrangements explained, followed by the ECA’s presentation of its Special Report on the Innovation Fund and the Commission’s initial response defending the instrument’s design while accepting all audit recommendations.
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The Chair opens and closes the PETI meeting, detailing coordinators’ decisions on agendas, petitions handling, own-initiative work, missions and hearings at the start, and at the end confirming pending follow-ups (notably on dock dues), any other business and the date of the next sitting.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The ITRE Chair opens the meeting and introduces the IICB annual report on implementation of the EU cybersecurity framework in institutions, followed by an in‑depth MEP–IICB Q&A on technological sovereignty, threat actors, institutional preparedness, AI‑driven risks and needed resources. The segment concludes with calls for coherent standards, reduced dependence on non‑EU providers and reinforced CERT capacity across EU bodies.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Chair opens the structured dialogue and the Executive Vice-President sets out the Commission’s priorities on simplification, the digital omnibus package, AI, copyright, online piracy and the ‘28th regime’ for the digital single market.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
A member thanks participants and both committees (ENVI and PECH) for their joint work, underlining that this collaboration will continue on similar subjects in the future before formally closing the meeting.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Chair announces upcoming votes, including empowering France to accede to the Inter-American Convention on protection and conservation and to enter into interinstitutional negotiations, launches a test vote to check the electronic system, and then switches to a show-of-hands vote on compromise number one after confirming technical issues are resolved and flagging a second vote to follow.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Chair opens the afternoon joint committee meeting, confirms presence, proposes adoption of the draft agenda without modifications, and recalls interpretation, e-file access and webstreaming arrangements ahead of voting points.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
In the morning, ENVI votes on amendments to the ECHA regulation, on the market stability reserve for ETS2 for buildings and road transport, and on an additional amending regulation while adopting an objection under Rule 115, and in the afternoon a joint ENVI–PECH sitting tests the system, approves France’s accession to the Inter‑American sea turtle convention and authorises interinstitutional negotiations by large majority.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Dutch representative and Commission present the objectives, structure and expected outputs of the Santa Marta conference as a follow‑up to COP28 and a vehicle for a fossil‑fuel transition roadmap, after which MEPs debate fossil‑fuel subsidy phase‑out, equity for coal‑dependent regions and the Global South, CBAM cooperation, ISDS and debt, while the Council and Commission clarify the conference’s non‑negotiating nature, its link to COP30, the 2040 climate law and upcoming EU initiatives on phasing out fossil subsidies.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair switches to the IMO MEPC 84 item, with the Commission outlining stalled talks on a net‑zero framework, global splits and the need for a unified EU line compatible with ETS and FuelEU, followed by group reactions on ambition, leakage, competitiveness and over‑regulation, with Greens and Left pressing for strong global GHG pricing and others warning on port leakage and connectivity, before the Commission responds on ambition, safeguards and the difficult prospects for consensus.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Kritz details constraints behind the pesticides backlog, EFSA’s envisaged role on biocontrol and targeted renewals, clarifies that border controls and trade measures lie with risk managers, defends EFSA’s independence and conflict‑of‑interest regime, explains cooperation on PFAS, GMOs, Parkinson’s research and tail docking, and in a catch‑the‑eye round addresses questions on cell‑grown meat, biosecurity, MRLs, ultra‑processed foods and EFSA’s non‑risk‑management role under Article 22.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Rapporteur and coordinators, followed by further group speakers, question EFSA on the Food and Feed Omnibus, challenging reduced review frequencies, unlimited approvals, PFAS scope, health and exposome impacts, import controls, Mercosur implications and glyphosate, while also raising animal‑welfare enforcement gaps and perceived EU double standards versus third‑country imports.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair opens the annual exchange with EFSA and gives the floor to Executive Director Kritz, who sets out EFSA’s mandate, recent work and plans to make the agency “faster, smarter, stronger” through process streamlining, digitalisation and AI while reinforcing scientific independence, transparency and One Health cooperation.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Presentation of the AGILE pilot instrument’s design, its relationship to existing EU defence tools, and political concerns about the EU’s capacity and doctrine for rapid collective defence, followed by the Commissioner’s reflections on possible centralised defence decision‑making structures and the Chair’s procedural closing of the meeting.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
MEPs question the Commissioner on defence market fragmentation, strategic autonomy, Article 42(7), industry visibility and capability gaps (missiles, drones, air defence, stockpiles), then broaden to regional security issues including military mobility, mines, Western Balkans, Cyprus, Mediterranean pressures, enlargement as a security tool, export controls, and intelligence/AI shortfalls.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Chair opens the extraordinary SEDE session, adopts the agenda and gives the floor to the Commissioner, who outlines the main EU defence initiatives (SAFE, AGILE pilot, Ukraine support, military mobility, EU Space Shield) and the industrial production gap with Russia, setting the strategic and legislative context for the debate.
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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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