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MEPs question experts on the interaction between a potential EU digital levy, the emerging UN tax convention and OECD processes, including implications for EU own resources, digital services taxation design and trade compatibility, before the co‑rapporteur and Chair draw political conclusions and close the digital levy agenda item.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
MEPs question experts and the Commission on pension adequacy, gaps, EU‑level instruments and reform options, followed by detailed replies on pension design, social protection in old age and upcoming EU initiatives. The segment concentrates stakeholder positions, requested measures and expert assessments relevant to pension policy choices and EU competences.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
An MEP questions the lack of initial impact assessment and requests quantified cost–benefit data, the Commission justifies the urgency procedure and details estimated social costs per extra year of exclusivity, and the Chair closes the agenda item with the amendments deadline and next meeting details.
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The Chair opens the second panel on international digital taxation, with Amaro presenting data on digital service classifications, revenue estimates from different DST bases, and income‑based alternatives, followed by the UN Secretariat outlining the new tax framework convention, its workplan, and options for nexus and withholding that reflect developing country needs and coexist with OECD/EU rules.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the IORP directive revision, the rapporteur presents objectives to expand occupational pensions and adjust investment rules, and political groups plus the EESC set out their positions on subsidiarity, prudent person principle, investment freedom, and safeguarding strong public pensions within a multi‑pillar system.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Shadow rapporteurs from ECR, EPP and Renew present competing views on SPC extension length, innovation incentives, SME support, regulatory sandboxes, AI safeguards and gender balance in clinical trials, highlighting a clear divide between stronger IP incentives and concerns raised in the draft opinion.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Members finalise the Agora EU 2028–2034 report and then conduct an extensive sequence of compromise, split and roll-call votes on the FEMM opinion for the European Social Fund in national and regional partnership plans, gradually shaping and then adopting the opinion text before the Chair suspends the sitting for a short break.
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Farmers’ representatives and MEPs debate the financial burden and governance challenges of coexistence measures, the adequacy of the current EU conservation regime and scope for more flexible population management, followed by EPP calls for broader culling options and political responsibility, as the workshop closes on subsidiarity, use of EU funds and reliance on scientific evidence for any lethal control decisions.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Rapporteur’s line (via the Chair) on strengthening EU biomanufacturing, deleting the 12‑month SPC extension, extending the stockpiling waiver and tightening ethical/AI safeguards is set out, followed by Commission context on the Biotech Act within the broader pharma package and its proposed conditional 12‑month SPC extension.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair opens Panel 2 and introduces an expert framing pension adequacy as a life‑course social contract, then a Commission‑mandated expert presents findings on flexible and deferred retirement in the EU, outlining main policy tools, equity concerns and options to improve incentives and monitoring.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
MEPs question panelists on feasibility of upstream material targets, cost impacts on consumers and industry, integration of reuse into EPR, treatment of online and non‑EU competitors, and best-practice EPR governance, eliciting detailed replies on structural resource vulnerability, design of harmonised EPR and PRO rules, fiscal reforms and data transparency needs.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The committee votes through a dense package of compromise and individual amendments on the gender inequalities in health report, ultimately adopting the text by final roll-call, after which a member presents a formal minority opinion criticising references to gender identity, sexual and reproductive rights, and perceived EU overreach while supporting targeted health measures for women and mothers.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting, deals with the postponed Georgia mission report, and faces an EPP point of order challenging how FEMM opinions are allocated, leading to a structured clarification of voting steps on agenda changes and opinion formats before holding initial votes on adding the item and assigning opinions to the Chair.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
MEPs from different political groups question the experts on intergenerational fairness, gendered pension gaps, welfare state sustainability and the balance between public, occupational and private schemes, followed by expert replies highlighting life‑course design, care credits, gender equality and defence of strong collective and public pillars.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Cluster of interventions on strengthening single market enforcement against gold‑plating, setting SME‑focused administrative burden reduction targets, embedding ‘think small first’ in law‑making, and comparing the 25% burden target to a possible one‑in‑two‑out rule, including Warborn’s challenge and the Commission’s response.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair launches scrutiny of the third FRTB delegated act, EU institutions justify its temporary level‑playing‑field design, and MEPs question competitiveness, capital impact, legal basis and financial‑stability trade‑offs before the item is closed.
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Enache critiques national and EU digital services taxes as low‑yield, distortive and regressive own resources and advocates a strengthened, harmonised VAT base as a superior EU financing tool; co‑rapporteurs and MEPs then test both experts on design choices for an EU digital levy, incidence on consumers and SMEs, revenue potential, interaction with VAT and BEFIT, and the political feasibility of securing Council agreement amid stalled OECD/UN processes and EU–US tax tensions.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
MEPs set out detailed concerns and priorities on the better regulation agenda, questioning the Commission on full versus minimum harmonisation, gold‑plating transparency, member state autonomy, DORA implementation, SME‑specific treatment, duration and depth of the simplification ‘worksite’, quantitative evaluation of past reforms, criteria for regulatory ‘deep cleaning’, the think‑small‑first principle, cost metrics and one‑in‑one‑out, as well as practical enforcement ‘reality checks’ and coherence of the EU rulebook.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
First-panel experts (IRP, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Ecoembes/EESC, Deutsche Umwelthilfe) set out systemic resource-constraint arguments, business asks on single-market harmonisation and fiscal signals, EPR-based citizen and infrastructure approaches, and proposals for binding prevention and resource-use targets with reformed EPR and product rules.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Parliament frames its own‑initiative report on the euro’s global role, with rapporteur and groups setting out priorities on euro sovereignty, safe assets, fiscal and digital architecture, and agreeing on the process and timing for ECON’s vote.
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The committee chair reports coordinators’ decisions on petitions, rapporteurships, missions and follow‑up, faces objections from non‑attached Members on exclusion from missions, and confirms the coordinators’ line by vote before opening the thematic workshop on large carnivore management with an overview of the EU legal and financial framework and expert evidence on population recovery and coexistence tools.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair frames the EMPL Committee hearing on intergenerational solidarity and decent pensions, then Panel 1 experts present academic evidence on demographic and labour trends alongside the ETUC trade union position on safeguarding public pensions, complementary schemes and quality employment.
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The Chair presents the workshop’s objectives on a possible EU digital levy as an own resource, links it to NGEU repayment and the post‑2027 MFF, explains the format, and gives the floor to Thomadakis, who analyses the tax challenges of digitalisation, lessons from the failed 2018 EU DST, evidence from national DSTs, and strategic design options for a stable EU‑level digital services tax.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair opens the ENVI hearing, situates the forthcoming Circular Economy Act within EU industrial and environmental strategy, presents objectives on secondary raw materials and single market rules, and introduces the first expert panel with its diverse stakeholder perspectives.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Chair opens the meeting and Commissioner Dombrovskis presents the new communication, detailing the ‘simplicity by design’ approach, strengthened better regulation tools, a 2026–2027 regulatory deep cleaning across 12 policy areas, and a tougher enforcement model against gold‑plating and single market barriers, concluding with an appeal for Parliament and Council to align with these principles.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair commits to making this hearing an annual exercise feeding into EU reports and initiatives, reiterates that killings of human rights defenders must not go unpunished, and formally closes the meeting with procedural information on the next session.
Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs challenge the coherence between EU human rights rhetoric and migration policy, probe causes of high risks in the Americas, digital and AI‑enabled repression, and business involvement, to which the Commission, Front Line Defenders and the EEAS respond with data on emergency protection, digital threats, Colombia’s specific situation, corporate due diligence and the use of EU protection and diplomatic tools.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Front Line Defenders presents its global data, methodology and regional hotspots for killings of human rights defenders, highlighting thematic risk profiles, gender dimensions, perpetrators and impunity, and the EEAS outlines existing EU instruments and priorities for prevention, protection, multilateral engagement and accountability, including use of guidelines and diplomatic pressure.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Chair opens the agenda item on an EU strategy to protect international justice, with rapporteur Strik outlining JURI’s role and four priorities: aligning EU law with international rulings, preventing EU complicity in grave crimes, strengthening cooperation with the ICC and addressing Commission inaction on the blocking statute, potentially via an inquiry committee. The S&D shadow welcomes the initiative and signals support for a stronger EU commitment to the international rules‑based order beyond declaratory rhetoric.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens the sitting, sets the agenda on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions of human rights defenders, introduces the UN Special Rapporteur and EEAS, and the UN expert details global patterns, scale and drivers of killings, systemic impunity, states’ obligations and concrete recommendations for EU preventive, protective and accountability measures.
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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
European Commissioner Dan JØRGENSEN 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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