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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs debate with Gramegna the blocked ratification of the amended ESM Treaty and SRF backstop, the ESM’s role versus NGEU grants and unconventional ECB policies, potential evolution into a euro‑area debt agency or safe‑asset issuer, options for liquidity in bank resolution, and the prudent but active use of the ESM toolkit before the Chair closes the exchange.
Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair presents his draft report on strengthening the international judicial system and EU–ICC cooperation, shadow rapporteurs outline amendments on the blocking statute, corporate guidance and civil‑society funding, Parliament asserts its role over the executive, and the EEAS reaffirms strong political and financial backing for the ICC under current sanctions and threats.
In this chapter
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
In the afternoon item on the COP31 resolution, co‑sponsors and political groups set out divergent positions on climate ambition, fossil‑fuel phase‑out, multilateralism, competitiveness, finance, loss and damage, health and One Health, while the Chair notes the Commission’s absence, confirms amendment and vote timelines, and closes the sitting ahead of the next day’s joint meeting.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Joint committee chairs open the meeting, adopt the agenda and corrigendum, and frame the Ukraine support loan as a politically crucial instrument, highlighting the security context, sanctions, reparations calls and early budgetary concerns on interest costs and flexibility.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair introduces ESM Managing Director Gramegna, who presents the ESM’s mandate, its 2025 annual report with profit, capital and lending capacity figures, and its crisis‑prevention role based on resilience, solidarity and credibility.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Discussion of EMPL priorities for the 2027 EU budget as the last year of the MFF, with MEPs stressing social cohesion, support for farmers and workers, critique of militarisation, and the Commission detailing fiscal constraints, social funding envelopes and ESF+ implementation prospects.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Members vote by show of hands to adopt compromise amendment 1, followed by a final roll-call vote on the regulation, which passes with a large majority, after which SEDE members are instructed to move to another meeting room (SPAAK 1A002).
Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Chair confirms technical setup and introduces the proposal for a regulation establishing the European Fund for economic, social, territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime prosperity and security for 2028–2034.
Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Following a short introduction by the rapporteur on integrating defence into the MFF and coordinating EU instruments, SEDE tests the voting system, adopts a compromise amendment, and approves its opinion on the proposed European Fund regulation for 2028–2034 by roll-call vote.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The rapporteur and shadows present the urgent, mainly technical amendment to Regulation 2019/1753 to align EU geographical indication procedures with upcoming WIPO Lisbon common regulations, with the Commission supporting swift adoption and the Chair announcing tight procedural deadlines.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Presentation of the PEPP revision context and social objectives, with MEPs from different groups debating PEPP’s role as a voluntary complement versus a driver of pension financialisation, and the Commission explaining its life-cycle design, cost logic and claimed complementarity with public systems.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Shadow rapporteurs from key groups state their priorities on first contracts, testing and a common market for defence SMEs, the Commission outlines the AGILE regulation and its link to the Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap, and the rapporteur closes by backing Agile’s scaling and inviting amendments based on supporting study results.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs question the effectiveness and political use of the blocking statute and warn against inaction, while the study author proposes ways to operationalise existing tools without full legal reform and clarifies how the global human‑rights sanctions regime could better address patterns such as transnational repression to safeguard the ICC.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair presents the INI report on scaling new defence actors, appoints the rapporteur, and sets the timetable, after which Rapporteur Staķis details the urgency, structural barriers (contracts, testing, fragmentation), and planned amendments including on EU–Ukraine cooperation.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair opens the SEDE meeting, confirms the agenda, and reports coordinators’ written decisions that will be attached to the minutes, setting the procedural frame for the session.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
MEPs probe whether new EU legislation is required beyond the DSA, how far intermediary and VPN responsibility should extend, and how affordability of legal offers affects piracy, with Riccio advocating a regulation-based approach, cumulative use of dynamic injunctions and notice-and-takedown, and improved legal services over purely punitive measures.
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The FEMM rapporteur advocates publishing Parliament’s Gender Action Plan, increasing funding for EIGE and ESF for reproductive rights initiatives without crowding out other priorities, and strengthening EPPO’s independence through adequate resourcing, after which the Chair takes final remarks and formally closes the meeting.
Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
An academic study is introduced and presented, defining EU sovereignty under external pressure, mapping existing instruments such as the blocking statute, anti‑coercion and human‑rights sanctions, identifying legal and infrastructural gaps, and recommending stronger shields, more operational clauses and a ‘Team Europe’ approach to protect international justice mechanisms like the ICC.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Introduction of the EMPL opinion on revising the IORP directive, with rapporteur and shadow MEPs outlining divergent views on the role of funded occupational pensions, social partner governance, market liberalisation and the gender pension gap, followed by the Commission’s defence of diversified supplementary schemes as complementary to public pensions.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The expert details how existing EU instruments and national schemes address live event piracy, comparing administrative and judicial blocking models, identifying enforcement trends, and highlighting persisting fragmentation and the need for harmonised, possibly sports-specific, EU rules.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs focus on EU growth prospects and energy policy, distributional and gender impacts of monetary policy, fiscal derogations and monetary autonomy, the transmission from short to long rates and QE, inflation dispersion and ECB–Fed relations, euro safe assets versus stablecoins, AI dependence and valuation risks, workers’ burden from inflation and rates, conditions for further hikes and fiscal support, the state of the digital euro and coexistence with cash, and the Chair closes the dialogue linking to the upcoming digital euro vote.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The committee examines the objection to the Commission’s draft restriction on lead in fishing tackle under REACH, with the objector questioning proportionality, evidence and SME impacts, while most political groups and the Commission defend the restriction on health and environmental grounds, citing RAC/SEAC opinions, alternatives, quantified lead‑reduction benefits, derogations and the upcoming vote schedule.
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The meeting shifts from the 2027 budget to the 2024 discharge, with calls to improve plenary discharge debates, ensure high‑level Commission presence and systematic follow‑up on conditionality and sector cases, followed by an assessment of EU agencies’ generally positive performance but persistent governance, procurement and cybersecurity risks, and a horizontal institutional overview stressing transparency, ethics, HR, digitalisation and the Council’s continued non‑cooperation.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Procedural opening of the EMPL meeting followed by a detailed report on the joint EMPL–LIBE–PETI delegation to the UN CRPD Conference, including themes, side events and initial political reactions by MEPs on disability rights implementation.
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The Chair opens the joint BUDG–CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and frames the objective around the Commission’s 2027 draft budget, after which the general rapporteur details severe constraints in the last MFF year and the need for highly targeted amendments, followed by the CONT perspective stressing reinforced resourcing for EPPO and anti‑corruption structures ahead of Hungary’s expected accession.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Chair introduces the Legal Affairs Committee item and Professor Riccio’s study, outlining the focus on countering online piracy of live sports and broadcasts and the structure of his evidence-based presentation.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs Al‑Sahlani, Sánchez Amor and the Chair strongly criticise the Commission’s ‘recalibration’ narrative and continued funding, invoking Parliament’s double objection and the blocked DROI mission, while witnesses and Amnesty urge sanctions and a non‑business‑as‑usual approach, prompting EEAS and INTPA to defend indirect funding and leading to a closing political clash on EU complicity and leverage.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
EEAS and Commission services present the legal framework of EU–Tanzania relations, detail political dialogue and demarches, explain the suspension of budget support and the shift to channelling cooperation funds via non‑state actors, and justify maintaining people‑focused engagement as leverage without directly supporting the government.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Professor Maurer presents his study on CTIPs, critical raw materials MoUs and similar ‘mini‑deals’, highlighting flexibility, weak enforceability and democratic oversight gaps, followed by an exchange with MEPs and the Commission on the balance between mini‑deals and FTAs, transparency, KPIs, development and local value‑addition outcomes, and possible evolution towards more binding and accountable frameworks before the meeting is closed.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair opens the ENVI meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports briefly on ongoing chemicals and PRM negotiations, and launches the file on suspending EPR authorized representative obligations with the rapporteur, shadows, Committee of the Regions and Commission outlining scope, SME burden‑reduction, enforcement risks, polluter‑pays concerns, and the link to the forthcoming Circular Economy Act and legislative calendar.
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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
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
European Commission President Ursula von der LEYEN in Antalya, Türkiye for the COP31
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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