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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
ETUC and BusinessEurope set out opposing priorities on wage growth, competitiveness, and EU-level support for collective bargaining, while Romania and Ireland present their early transposition choices, formula-based minimum wage setting, and strategies to raise collective bargaining coverage from low levels.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
ITRE examines the proposed performance framework for EU budget expenditure, balancing simplification and SME access with the defence of horizontal principles such as climate, social and gender equality targets, do‑no‑significant‑harm and fossil‑fuel exclusion, while debating indicator design, delegated powers, institutional balance and links between competitiveness spending and social and environmental outcomes before confirming amendment deadlines.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
After closing the Taiwan segment, the Committee turns to Canada’s ambassador for a keynote on the new EU–Canada security and defence partnership, Ukraine support, PESCO/SAFE participation and Arctic/NORAD modernisation, followed by Q&A on Arctic governance, defence‑industry integration, EDA/SAFE arrangements, EU strategic autonomy, the Defence Security Resilience Bank and space and NORAD relations with the US.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs press the Commission and EEAS on concrete responses against Russia, China and others, platform accountability, proof standards for foreign interference, the notion of instrumentalised migration, visa policy, division of EU–national competences and links to terrorism, with replies detailing sanctions, DSA enforcement, databases like EUvsDisinfo and complementary cybersecurity legislation.
Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
In a later item, the EEAS outlines engagement with China on minority rights and an MEP compares China’s ethnic unity and language policies in Tibet to Soviet practices and current Russian occupation tactics, warning that “unity” rhetoric enables assimilation and repression of minorities.
Laurence Muller-Bronn and 7 others
Rapporteurs and political groups debate the 2028–2034 Justice Programme, the successor to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, and the future structure of cohesion policy versus a single NRP envelope, focusing on budget levels, ring‑fencing, rule‑of‑law and access‑to‑justice objectives, integration spending and regional involvement.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The second session starts with an expert overview of transposition choices, use of the 60% median/50% average wage benchmarks, and collective bargaining action plans, followed by the co‑rapporteur and Commission explaining expectations for more ambitious plans, upcoming monitoring, and integration into the European Semester.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
DG HOME and EEAS outline the evolving hybrid threat landscape, covering instrumentalised migration, critical infrastructure, drones, cyber‑attacks and foreign information manipulation, and present the existing EU legal, operational and sanctions toolbox to counter these threats.
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Group coordinators and other MEPs probe where implementation blockages lie between EU and national levels, how MFF and EMFAF revisions could genuinely reduce red tape, what to do about import dependence and stagnating EU aquaculture, and whether to pursue a targeted CFP simplification omnibus or a broader reform, with a particular focus on small-scale, crustacean and coastal sectors.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Taiwan’s Deputy Foreign Minister outlines China’s coercive ‘new normal’, Taiwan’s defence efforts and calls for deeper EU cooperation, followed by multiple Q&A rounds with MEPs on status quo vs coercion, UNCLOS and navigation, semiconductor dependencies, defence spending and ties with the US, EU and regional partners.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Vinted and Bol detail their business models, trust and safety systems, and compliance practices, MEPs probe issues such as unfair competition, waste, hidden professionals, counterfeits, minors’ protection and job creation, and both platforms respond with concrete measures and regulatory requests as the Commission closes on digital tools, circularity and enforcement against illegal imports.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair formally opens the SEDE meeting, sets out the legislative timetable for the new Agile and Rapid Defence Innovation regulation, and reports on the first official SEDE mission to Taiwan, linking its defence posture, semiconductor role and China policy debates to EU deterrence and spending challenges.
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The Chair introduces the assessment of the European Competitiveness Fund, followed by the rapporteur’s priorities on InvestEU, governance, EIB involvement and delegated acts, and Commission/ITRE input on the ECF’s size, architecture, guarantees and overlapping committee competences.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Parliament opens the China agenda point, hears civil society and expert assessments of the ethnic unity law and its extraterritorial effects, and receives the EEAS position before MEPs debate EU leverage, legal instruments and human‑rights conditionality and the chair outlines follow‑up actions.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Rapporteur and political groups set out their positions on extending CBAM to downstream products, tightening Article 27 exemptions and anti‑circumvention rules, assessing competitiveness and employment impacts, and on the design or rejection of the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund, with divergent views on export support, social and green conditionality, emergency brakes and revenue use.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Acting chair and MEPs debrief ITRE fact‑finding missions to Japan and France, covering industrial policy, semiconductors, AI, hydrogen, nuclear (fusion and fission), port decarbonisation and defence capabilities, followed by Q&A on hydrogen economics, fusion scalability, CBAM‑relevant industrial policy and the EU–Japan FTA.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Chair launches the ITRE meeting, adopts the agenda, sets amendment deadlines on the defence innovation file and conducts test, show‑of‑hands and roll‑call votes on EU–Swiss agreements and Research Fund for Coal and Steel guidelines.
The chair launches the CFP-related public hearing on bureaucracy and competitiveness, followed by industry and small-scale representatives detailing structural weaknesses, regulatory overload and concrete simplification needs across capture fisheries and aquaculture, including criticism of the landing obligation, control rules, licensing and TAC procedures, and calls for an EU-level framework that better balances sustainability with socio‑economic viability.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The first session introduces the scope of the CJEU judgment on the minimum wage directive, provides a detailed legal assessment of the annulled adequacy provisions, and gathers MEP and national parliament reactions on EU competence, collective bargaining coverage targets, Nordic model concerns, and the political significance of the ruling before a short break.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
The EESC presents its evaluation of the Market Surveillance Regulation, pointing to enforcement gaps aggravated by small‑parcel imports from Chinese platforms, MEPs question coherence with customs and DSA frameworks, and the EESC and Commission outline forthcoming measures including customs reform, de‑minimis changes, the European Product Act and a revised UMSR with stronger digital tools and cooperation.
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The Chair adjusts and adopts the agenda, then the committee hears an external study on investment needs in the Draghi and Letta reports, including quantified gaps, InvestEU leverage scenarios and a detailed Q&A with MEPs on assumptions, EIB’s role and leverage realism.
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The committee chair opens the meeting, organises internal matters and adopts the agenda before holding key votes on the regulation for European fisheries and aquaculture statistics and on incorporating RFMO measures into Union law, thereby closing the decision-making part of the session.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs question the Commission on Schengen resilience, asylum and returns, flexibility, agency financing and overlaps with other instruments, while the Commission defends broad reallocation powers, objective‑based programming, non‑funding of physical barriers and enhanced oversight tools before the Chair closes the item.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair and Commission define the meeting’s objectives around adequate minimum wage protection and collective bargaining, link the directive to the EU antipoverty and social pillar agenda, recall the CJEU’s validation of its legal basis, and outline monitoring, first reporting and the role of national parliaments.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
A Rohingya representative details genocide, displacement and concrete asks to the EU, followed by an extensive MEP Q&A on Roma and European statelessness, terrorism-related deprivation and protection tools, and panel responses on remedies for Nicaraguans, protection for Rohingya, Roma documentation, deprivation practices, ID systems, and an EEAS overview of EU external action, before the Chair closes with follow-up commitments and the internal EU dimension.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
The rapporteur presents the draft opinion on AI in EU institutions, calling for human oversight, protection of fundamental rights and avoidance of a two‑tier Europe, followed by shadows’ positions on opportunities, oversight, liability and resources, and the Commission’s defence of a balanced innovation–safety approach centred on the AI Act and the new AI Office.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair opens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and launches the debate on the 2028–2034 Home Affairs funding architecture with the Commission’s presentation of the new integrated MFF framework for AMIF, ISF and BMVI.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Rapporteur and shadows set priorities for the SMCP budget and governance, emphasising customs capacity, border equipment, anti‑fraud tools, SME support and safeguards on budget flexibility, while the Commission defends a simplified, agile design without added comitology, and the rapporteur closes by underlining enforcement as key to a functioning single market.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens the sitting, adopts the agenda and minutes, announces urgent resolutions and sets the hearing’s scope on forced exile, deprivation of nationality and statelessness, followed by detailed testimony on Nicaragua and expert framing of statelessness, its causes, legal framework and links to citizenship stripping and EU responsibilities.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Chair Cavazzini opens the IMCO meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and delivers short institutional updates on the AI Omnibus trilogue, the IMCO mission to China (e‑commerce and non‑compliance), implementation progress on the AI Act and the Forced Labour Regulation, highlighting timelines, enforcement models and follow‑up needs.
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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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