MEPs question Lagarde on stagflation risks, strategic autonomy and prices, the neutral rate, criticism of the rate hike, food and energy price channels, the euro’s global role and a common safe asset, regulatory treatment of sovereign risk and securitisation, and the constraints of energy shocks and public debt on ECB tools.
Family members of Humphrey Polepole and Tundu Lissu describe enforced disappearance, assassination attempts, politicised prosecutions and abusive detention conditions, while Amnesty International outlines the post‑election crackdown and issues concrete recommendations to Tanzanian authorities and the EU, including investigations, report publication and legal reforms.
The Chair introduces the monetary dialogue with President Lagarde, who presents the ECB’s assessment of growth, inflation and geopolitical risks, explains the June rate hike, and outlines the strategy for handling recurrent supply shocks.
The Chair opens the ECON meeting, confirms the agenda and interpretation, and reports on recent and upcoming trilogues on the Midcaps Omnibus, economic governance package and securitisation before moving to the monetary dialogue.
The Chair opens the DROI meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, recalls recent urgency resolutions, and sets out the context of deteriorating EU–Tanzania relations, blocked EP missions, and specific questions to NGOs based on Parliament’s 2025 resolution.
The Chair opens the Committee on Legal Affairs meeting, confirms interpretation languages, adopts the agenda in the absence of objections, notes there are no chair’s announcements and no minutes to adopt, and introduces item on subsidiarity under Rule 43 with rapporteur Mr. Szmizsek and the seven reasoned opinions from national parliaments.
The chair introduces the EU–South Africa CTIP implementation item; the Commission presents its three‑pillar approach and planned tools, followed by questions from rapporteurs and political groups on localisation, visas, regulatory progress, financing, raw materials, CBAM, and parliamentary/civil‑society involvement, to which the Commission responds by clarifying CTIP’s non‑binding nature, links to EPA and existing instruments, business priorities, and governance arrangements.
The chair opens the INTA meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and then reports on the recent delegation to South Africa, followed by members’ assessments highlighting expectations on financing, industrialisation, Global Gateway, CBAM, energy policy, labour and environmental standards, and South Africa’s geopolitical stance.
The Commission presents EU legal bases and initiatives on children’s rights and the right to play, followed by MEPs outlining differing political priorities on subsidiarity, parental roles, inequality, child poverty, migrant children, the Child Guarantee and digital regulation.
The President manages procedural points and introduces a sequence of votes on human rights resolutions (Nicaragua, Belarus, Burkina Faso), environmental and waste legislation (mixed municipal waste exports, end-of-life vehicles, urban waste water treatment), followed by foreign policy decisions on Russia’s drone incursions and EU funding for Tanzania, including oral amendments and roll-call votes.
MEPs examine the EU’s role in culture and sport, contrasting concerns over competence overreach and ideological use of culture with arguments for a stronger strategic cultural agenda on democracy, cohesion, minority rights, artists’ conditions and EU soft power, including funding and regulatory implications.
The Chair and Commissioner present the joint culture declaration, its democratic and interinstitutional stakes, followed by main political groups outlining their support and concerns regarding funding, platforms’ power, and AI’s impact on creators’ rights and working conditions.
MEPs debate mandatory recycled plastic quotas, component passports, export restrictions and ownership rights, contrasting fears about costs, competitiveness, administrative burden and effects on historic or hobby vehicles with arguments on circularity, eco‑design, social affordability and retaining critical raw materials in the EU.
The Chair and rapporteurs introduce the proposal on design and end‑of‑life vehicles, outlining its objectives, legal instruments, expected environmental and economic impacts, and the first political reactions from main groups, including concerns on lobbying, bureaucracy and scope of obligations.
Linked plenary and explanation‑of‑vote segment covering human‑rights situations in Belarus and Burkina Faso and MEPs’ positions on the Migration Pact Return Regulation, including sanctions, non‑recognition policies and fundamental‑rights safeguards.
Urgent debate under Rule 150 on the EU’s reaction to the Ortega‑Murillo regime, focusing on targeted sanctions, use of the democratic clause in the EU–Central America Agreement, and possible suspension of EU support to Nicaraguan authorities before the vote.
The plenary examines the Lithuanian Register Centre cyber breach as a hybrid threat, then moves to the Electrification Action Plan and the Green Deal framework for EU transport, addressing security, decarbonisation, competitiveness, social impacts and regulatory instruments across these files.
Debates on the EU framework for child protection online and the 2025 Sakharov Prize on Belarus are followed by a consolidated voting block on NGT plants, returns and trade measures, tax and anti‑fraud instruments, and enlargement reports on Turkey and the Western Balkans.
Preparation of the June European Council focuses on Ukraine, the Middle East, defence and EU–China relations, alongside enlargement, the MFF review, competitiveness and migration, with Council, Commission and MEPs setting out contrasting institutional lines.
The Chair opens the Middle East point, the High Representative outlines the EU’s approach to the US–Iran understanding, maritime security, sanctions and options on Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank and settlement products, and political groups present their diverging positions on the Iran MOU, terrorism, Israel’s security, sanctions and measures related to Israel‑Palestine and a two‑state solution.
The Commission vice‑president and MEPs set out plans and political demands on AI factories, chips, cloud and cybersecurity to strengthen EU digital sovereignty, reduce dependence on foreign tech powers and advance regulatory files such as the digital omnibus and targeted cybersecurity measures.
MEPs and speakers frame digital sovereignty around human‑centric AI, democratic control of data, and the EU’s ability to invest jointly in critical capacities, while denouncing surveillance capitalism, calling for restrictions on targeted advertising and stronger tools against non‑compliant platforms. The discussion links national AI and cloud strategies to EU‑level market, capital‑market and industrial levers needed to build independent yet open digital infrastructures.
MEPs analyse Europe’s structural lag behind the US and China, linking it to energy costs, skills and regulation, and debate how to adapt GDPR, copyright and industrial policy to enable competitive EU AI models and reduce dependence on US providers, including in light of concrete access restrictions such as the Anthropic case.
The President opens the debate on EU digital and technological sovereignty, followed by the Commission’s presentation of its new sovereignty package (including Chips Act 2.0 and Cloud and AI Development Act) and initial MEP reactions on dependencies, industrial policy, market role and hyperscaler reliance.
Az árnyékelőadók és a Zöldek képviselői ütköztetik álláspontjaikat a rugalmasság, tagállami kapacitások, stratégiai projektek, Aarhusi jogok, derogációk és biodiverzitás‑védelem kérdéseiről, vitatva a Bizottság deregulációs megközelítését és a környezeti, valamint demokratikus garanciák esetleges gyengülését.
Az elnök és a jelentéstevő Emma Wiesner bemutatják az Omnibus egyszerűsítési eljáráshoz kapcsolódó új EIA‑rendelet célját, a zöld beruházások engedélyezésének gyorsítását, valamint a technológiasemleges, kétpilléres eljárási modellt, EU‑szintű határidőkkel, elszámoltathatósági és digitalizációs követelményekkel.
The Chair reports on PETI workshop plans and interinstitutional negotiations (Omnibus, ETS2), then steers the committee through electronic and show‑of‑hands votes on the new genomic techniques regulation and the environmental crime directive, detailing roll‑call requests, majorities and final adoption of positions.
The Chair opens the ENVI meeting, confirms the agenda and explains the detailed hearing procedure for Commissioner‑designate Hoekstra, including speaking times, order of interventions and rules for follow‑up questions, while flagging a later Green Deal exchange and voting block.
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
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
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Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union Ordinary meeting
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7th Inter-Parliamentary Committee Meeting On Evaluation Of The European Union Agency For Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) Activities
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