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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 Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Chair McAllister opens the joint AFET–DEVE meeting, notes time pressure due to AFET votes, and proposes adoption of the agenda if there are no objections.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Emma Rafowicz and 6 others
The first panel on Agora EU and Creative Europe is launched by the Chair and rapporteurs, outlining the merger logic and budget structure. National parliamentarians then present detailed concerns and proposals on access barriers, oversubscription, cultural heritage, AI, media pluralism, labour conditions and the visibility and autonomy of Creative Europe within Agora EU.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The Chair opens the interparliamentary meeting, sets procedural rules and tools, and frames the focus on Erasmus+, ESC and Creative Europe. Rapporteur Sousa Silva then presents Parliament’s priorities for the next MFF, detailing proposed GNI margins, top‑ups and reinforced envelopes for Erasmus+ (incl. ESC) and the new Agora EU programme.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
In a subsequent meeting, the chair opens proceedings and introduces the draft report on the European Media Freedom Act, with CULT and LIBE rapporteurs outlining key provisions on media independence, ownership transparency, protection of journalists and the role of the European Board for Media Services before giving the floor to shadows.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
CULT and LIBE hold a joint hearing on protecting children online, with expert input on age verification, privacy-by-design and enforcement, followed by MEPs’ questions on data-minimising verification technologies and whether DSA rules adequately address systemic risks for minors.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The BUDG rapporteur assesses the financial proposal and calls for a higher envelope, clearer budgetary structure and stronger parliamentary control, after which MEPs raise remaining concerns on earmarking and existing structures, the Commission explains the three-strand architecture and Council state of play, and co-rapporteurs close with political framing and the timetable for amendments.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the afternoon session and swiftly adopts the agenda and minutes, then the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs presents the latest EU macroeconomic outlook, highlighting persistently uncertain conditions due to geopolitics and tight monetary policy alongside labour‑market resilience, easing energy tensions and falling inflation, and underlining the need to balance investment support with fiscal sustainability.
Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Co-rapporteurs present the objectives and structure of the Agora EU programme and are followed by EPP, S&D, ID, ECR, Renew, Greens and Left shadows, who set out divergent positions on budget level, programme architecture, media strands, conditionality on EU values, AI safeguards, access for small actors, and sectoral balance between culture, media and civic space.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The rapporteur presents his approach to the performance regulation framework as a results‑oriented tool without duplicating horizontal principles like DNSH, climate and gender provisions, while S&D and ECR shadows clash over keeping or rolling back these requirements, and Renew and the EESC advocate a balanced line that retains horizontals as expressions of EU values but with proportional implementation and clearer guidance, before the rapporteur reiterates his position and the Chair confirms the vote date.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
A member corrects misconceptions about Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps budget cuts before the CULT Chair closes that item and formally opens the joint CULT–LIBE meeting on the Agora EU programme, adopts the agenda and explains the joint-committee mandate and procedural framework.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
In a subsequent meeting, the chair adopts the agenda, confirms coordinators’ decisions on an own‑initiative report, a trafficking hearing linked to the war in Ukraine and a mission to Poland, then opens an exchange of views as Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Minister Marian Jurečka presents the Council Presidency’s priorities on women’s rights and gender equality.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The chair opens a FEMM sitting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports coordinators’ decisions on key files (violence against women and pay transparency directives, hearing on women in Afghanistan), then introduces and debates a study on the gender dimension of the EU’s COVID‑19 response, highlighting disproportionate impacts on women and the need for stronger gender mainstreaming and data in recovery measures.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The Chair opens item 9 on revising CO2 standards and vehicle labelling, with the rapporteur presenting his draft opinion and proposed flexibilities, shadow rapporteurs outlining divergent positions on the 2035 phase‑out, technology neutrality and industrial impacts, additional MEPs debating electrification versus a 90% target option, and DG CLIMA warning that cumulative flexibilities would weaken targets before the item is closed and amendment deadlines announced.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Rapporteure Yon‑Courtin sets out political priorities for revising PEPP, followed by initial reactions from EPP, S&D and The Left on fees, interaction with public and occupational pensions, automatic enrolment and tax incentives, after which the Commission clarifies PEPP’s life‑cycle design, complementary role to state pensions and approach to sub‑accounts and fiscal incentives, before the rapporteur and Chair close the item and announce the legislative calendar.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The REGI rapporteur and Chair Gálvez rebut claims of ideological bias by grounding gender equality and climate as treaty‑based horizontal priorities, argue for gender‑responsive budgeting as a democratic and economic necessity, and close the MFF item by confirming that compromise work will continue and announcing the afternoon joint FEMM–LIBE meeting on anti‑trafficking.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the ECON meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports on trilogue progress on the economic governance simplification package, and then launches the first exchange of views on the Commission’s PEPP 2.0 review proposal, outlining its main design features and tax‑related expectations for Member States.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The ITRE Chair opens the sitting, adopts the agenda and introduces the Commission’s presentation of the proposed new EuroHPC Joint Undertaking regulation, focusing on its strategic role for EU digital sovereignty, industrial policy and achievements since 2018.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chairs open further FEMM sittings, confirm procedural elements and conduct electronic votes on the directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, including key compromises, and on the report concerning the situation of women with disabilities, giving detailed voting instructions to members.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The committee examines the consent procedure to extend the EU–Morocco aviation agreement to Croatia, with the rapporteur and shadows underlining its technical nature and broad support, then debriefs the mission to EASA on staffing, regulatory agility, safety and competitiveness, stressing the need for adequate EU‑level resourcing. The Chair closes the morning TRAN session and later opens a new meeting, confirming agendas and minutes and introducing an external study on the impact of COVID‑19 on the transport sector as the first substantive item for presentation and Q&A.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Shadows and members from Patriots, EPP, ECR and Renew outline diverging views on using the EU budget for gender equality, debating earmarked funds, gender‑impact assessments, horizontal principles, administrative burden and alleged ‘ideological’ conditionality, with concerns raised about SMEs and sectoral impacts versus calls for binding tools to avoid backsliding on women’s rights.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Rapporteur Lina Gálvez sets out persistent gender gaps in the EU, criticises the Commission’s MFF 2028‑2034 proposal for lacking robust gender mainstreaming and targets, and explains the timetable, amendment landscape and key political fault lines (spending targets, ‘do no significant harm’ principle, Annex 4 data issues) before handing the floor to shadows.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
ITRE conducts electronic voting on the gas and hydrogen internal market files, then turns to the association of Norway and Iceland to GOVSATCOM and IRIS², with the Commission detailing legal bases, scope, financing and security provisions while the rapporteur and members focus on Parliament’s information rights, strategic autonomy, Arctic and launch dimensions, and implementation timelines.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Η πρόεδρος‑εισηγήτρια παρουσιάζει το πλαίσιο παρακολούθησης για τον ΜΠΔ 2028‑2034 και τις τροπολογίες της FEMM για ενσωμάτωση της ισότητας των φύλων, ενώ σκιώδεις εισηγητές Patriots/ECR αμφισβητούν την έμφυλη κατάρτιση προϋπολογισμού και στη συνέχεια σκιώδεις από EPP/Renew και η εισηγήτρια υπερασπίζονται τη μεθοδολογία, τα νομικά θεμέλια και τα επόμενα βήματα του φακέλου.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
FEMM examines the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus on women and girls, adopting the oral question and resolution through electronic and split votes, followed by a Cypriot member’s closing intervention underlining justice for victims and political expectations from the EU.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair and rapporteur Gieseke introduce the draft TRAN opinion on revising CO2 standards for new light‑duty vehicles, presenting a technology‑open, industry‑oriented “middle way” with differentiated ambition for cars and vans and a role for renewable fuels and plug‑in hybrids. Shadows and group speakers from S&D, Patriots/ECR, Renew, Greens, the Left, ECR/ID and S&D again set out contrasting positions on the 2035 combustion phase‑out, 90% targets, technological neutrality, jobs and China exposure, after which the Commission warns that some TRAN flexibilities could de facto weaken the targets and investment signal for zero‑emission vehicles, and Gieseke closes by calling for focused amendments and compromise‑oriented negotiations.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The ordinary TRAN Committee sitting is opened with confirmation of webstreaming, amendment deadlines for several transport files, minor agenda changes and a test electronic vote. Members then proceed to votes on the Austria–Switzerland road transport agreement and the wider Swiss package opinion, focusing on cross‑border coach operations and avoiding rail market fragmentation.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and moves directly to the Global Europe instrument opinion, where rapporteur and shadows present the file and members complete the full sequence of amendment and compromise votes through to final adoption by roll‑call.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Consecutive ITRE sittings address agenda approval, procedural arrangements and an early vote on the EU–Morocco agreement, then move to the strategic context of the European Chips Act, the defense readiness omnibus, and a contentious debate on the environmental omnibus where groups and the Commission confront deregulatory proposals on industrial emissions, BAT rules and competitiveness versus environmental ambition.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Final speakers on the electric vehicle transition stress affordability, differentiated national trajectories and reduced fossil fuel dependence, while defending a cross‑party compromise on automotive policy. The Chair then clarifies interpretation issues, announces deadlines and the vote schedule for the CO2 and cars file, and formally closes the first part of the meeting before a short break.
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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
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
College read-out / Press conference 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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