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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The committee opens its meeting and addresses EU–Africa trade and investment, with MEPs outlining political group priorities on EPAs, AfCFTA, Global Gateway and conditionalities, followed by the Commission detailing the existing trade and investment toolbox with Africa and the timetable for an INTA resolution and mission to South Africa.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Committee voting block covering reconsultation on payment services legislation, adoption of securitisation files and trilogue mandates, the opinion on the European Competitiveness Fund, and the opinion on the interim EU–Switzerland agreement, concluding with information on the next ECON meeting and closure.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Rapporteur’s presentation of concerns on macroeconomic conditionality, governance and stakeholder involvement in the NRPP regulation, followed by political group reactions on conditionality, transparency, rule‑of‑law criteria and strengthening the European Parliament’s role, including indications on compromise work.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Presentation of the draft report on digital assets and tokenisation, followed by political group positions on MiCA implementation, stablecoin multi‑issuance, AML/KYC and monetary stability, and concluding remarks on convergence, remaining differences and next procedural steps.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair closes by framing AI‑driven gender‑based violence as a systemic, patriarchal and profit‑driven threat comparable to the tobacco industry, and calls for united, courageous enforcement and, where necessary, strengthening of EU rules to protect especially younger generations before harms become entrenched.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Experts respond to MEPs by attributing youth over‑use to addictive algorithms, warning of the limits of media literacy alone, advocating alternative engagement metrics and intentional platform use, and emphasizing the need for data access, proportionate child access restrictions and effective sanctions, potentially funded via tech taxation, to uphold fundamental rights.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEP Q&A with experts on the balance between ESMA and national supervisors, protection of smaller markets, DLT experimentation and interoperability, Settlement Finality Regulation changes, depository passports, ESMA resources and the package’s role in closing Europe’s investment gap, ending with key implementation messages.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
MEPs raise concerns about prevention of virality, reporting mechanisms, youth exposure and education, parental responsibility and third‑country platforms, define AI sexual imagery as structural violence and digital rape, and discuss bans, age limits, identity protection, support for vulnerable children, and strong enforcement tools up to market exclusion and high DSA fines.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The AI Act rapporteur and AI Omnibus co‑rapporteurs outline how AI industrializes misogyny, stress platforms’ DSA risk‑assessment and enforcement obligations, debate whether to ban nudification systems and how broadly to define prohibited AI‑nudity, and call for robust EU‑level tools and sanctions that change platform design rather than become a cost of doing business.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Opening of the public hearing and expert statements from market infrastructures and ESMA on the Commission’s MISP proposals, focusing on centralised supervision, pan‑EU market operator status, DLT, open access and the need for scale and coherent EU‑level supervision.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Experts from civil society and the FRA present concrete cases of AI‑driven sextortion and nudification, the psychological and societal harms for young people, structural gaps in platforms’ duty of care, and the partial coverage of deepfake abuse by existing EU instruments including the DSA, GDPR, AI Act, Violence Against Women Directive and CSAM rules.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair opens the FEMM hearing on AI and gender‑based violence, situates it in the context of EU online safety and international interest, and then details the Grok scandal, national bans, and the Commission’s DSA investigation alongside Parliament’s AI Omnibus work on deepfakes and platform responsibility.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Further Q&A with the Eurogroup president on lessons from the Greek crisis, application of new fiscal rules in crises, diversification away from Russian energy, AI’s labour‑market impact, and EU‑level action on energy union, defence spending and windfall profits, concluding with a political exchange on Greece and wrap‑up.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Introductory statements and first Q&A with the Eurogroup president on the macroeconomic outlook, energy shock, fiscal stance and the Eurogroup work programme, including priorities on energy, savings and investment union, digital euro and AI governance.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The chair formally closes the TRAN public hearing on sustainable aviation fuels, thanks the speakers, and notes that their input will inform Parliament’s work on EU SAF deployment challenges.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
MEPs probe whether book-and-claim should be ESAF‑only or cover all SAF, EU vs EEA scope, use of Air Services Regulation to open fuel markets, post‑2030 ESAF capacity planning, and fraud risks, and the panel answers on auction design, ETS‑financed and ESAF‑ring‑fenced allowances, Norway/Iceland inclusion, UDB-based monitoring, tighter certification and synchronising ETS rules so airlines can claim purchased environmental value without altering physical SAF delivery duties.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
Chair confirms no additional items, announces next AFCO meeting date and time, thanks services and interpreters, and formally closes the sitting.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The chair outlines plans for an expert hearing with the President of the Court of Justice and national constitutional court representatives on the Article 19 report, then the rapporteur delivers closing remarks on key concerns (judicial protection, national courts’ role, legal certainty, conferral, transparency, constitutional identity) and the aim of a balanced text fostering trust between EU and national judicial systems.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
EPP, S&D, Patriots, Greens and ES set out contrasting views on whether the ECJ’s Article 19 case law exceeds conferred competences, how to interpret judicial independence and subsidiarity, and how far Parliament should criticise or defend the Court’s constitutional role, including an exchange between López Aguilar and Sokol on primacy versus conferral.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The chair introduces the second panel, after which SASHA, the Italian PACTA Foundation, Transport & Environment and SkyNRG set out contrasting models for book-and-claim, ranging from ESAF-focused, time-limited and EEA‑confined schemes to broader SAF coverage, while addressing ETS/RefuelEU trajectories, airport fuel market power, voluntary book-and-claim practices and the role of EU‑funded double-sided auctions in de‑risking new SAF capacity.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The chair introduces Item 5 on Article 19 TEU and the EU institutional framework, and rapporteur Weimers outlines his planned report focusing on the ECJ’s interpretation of Article 19, the link to Article 2 values, and tensions with conferral, national competences and judicial independence.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Non-attached MEP De Masi raises concerns on opaque defence procurement pricing and proposes an EU price benchmarking tool, followed by the rapporteur’s closing remarks and the Chair’s clarification of the amendment deadline, ECON vote date and upcoming joint meeting schedule for item 8.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The chair resolves technical issues and conducts roll-call votes on allocating the democratic accountability file and on the 2026 report on European political parties and foundations, before informally closing the voting block and preparing the move to the next agenda item.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Shadow rapporteurs from S&D, Left, ECR, Renew and Greens set out contrasting lines on preserving DNSH, climate and social targets, use of ‘ideological’ indicators, flexibility for Member States and the scope of delegated acts, indicating fault lines for amendments and coalition building.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Chair opens Item 8 on the new performance regulation and gives the floor to rapporteur Lewandowski, who outlines his draft opinion and flags key concerns on simplification, deletion of DNSH, delegated acts and defence exemptions within the MFF framework.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
MEPs question airline, DHL and airport representatives on Commission reluctance, EU vs global scope, interaction with double-sided auctions, scarcity and fraud risks, imports and feedstock limits, level playing field with non‑EU carriers and global regimes, and the panel responds by detailing how an EU-only, UDB-based book-and-claim could work with extended SAF allowances, registry interoperability and state support while maintaining physical delivery obligations and robust certification.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
DHL presents empirical cost comparisons showing supplier-driven SAF overpricing and calls for an EU-wide, tradable ticket-based book-and-claim with strict anti–double counting, while Munich Airport backs book-and-claim to scale SAF and protect connectivity, stressing robust sustainability rules, a central register and alignment with ETS/RefuelEU/RED to avoid perverse incentives.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Chair frames the TRAN hearing on book-and-claim within RefuelEU Aviation, then IATA details the SAF price gap, supplier market power at airports, and argues for an EU book-and-claim system integrated with the Union Database and ETS/RefuelEU to enable tradable SAF certificates and direct airline–producer offtakes.
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Strengthening Inclusive Democratic Participation and Civic Engagement within the European Union - Presidency events
European Commissioner Dan JØRGENSEN in Antalya, Türkiye for the COP31
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
College read-out / Press conference (with international sign language) by European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna VIRKKUNEN and Commissioner Michael McGRATH on the Digital Fairness Act and a Consumer enforcement initiative
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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