MEPs question the medical experts on AI protocols, professional liability, telemedicine safety, patient consent and EHDS opt-out, innovation and industrial policy, bias and equity in datasets, risks of deskilling, and the appropriate supportive role of AI and robotics, followed by detailed replies from Luca and Das.
The Chair opens the opinion on simplifying motor vehicle technical requirements, followed by rapporteur Gori’s amendments on EVs, PHEVs and social leasing, political group reactions balancing competitiveness with new obligations, and the Commission’s defence of a targeted simplification focused on cost reduction without weakening safety and environmental rules.
The Chair and delegation head Niebler frame the ITRE mission to EUSPA within the Space Act and new EUSPA regulation, then detail how EU space programmes (Galileo, EGNOS, GOVSATCOM, SST) support security, technological sovereignty and downstream market uptake, including SME support and access to finance.
The Chair transitions to external missions and the rapporteur presents the ITRE delegation’s visit to Houston/Texas, detailing exchanges with energy, LNG, grid, space (NASA and private actors) and digital/AI stakeholders, and highlighting lessons on fast decision-making, regulatory predictability and infrastructure investment for EU competitiveness and the green and digital transitions.
Representatives of European doctors and a practising spine surgeon set out clinicians’ perspectives on EU digital health files, medical device and biotech regulation, workforce shortages, and the role of VR-based training in expanding equitable access to care.
The committee opens the ITRE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and proceeds to a series of votes on the ILUC biofuels delegated act objection, nuclear safety and Ignalina decommissioning instruments, and several opinions on ENRPP, CBAM expansion, a temporary decarbonisation fund and amendments to the Critical Raw Materials Act, including granting a negotiation mandate under Rule 72.
The Chair opens the CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and cohesion‑fund vote, then moves to the draft report on cross‑border VAT fraud where the rapporteur and groups set out priorities on prevention, data sharing, EPPO/OLAF roles, VAT Directive reform, customs controls and rule‑of‑law conditionality. OLAF then explains its specific mandate on import‑related VAT fraud and cooperation with national and EU bodies, before the Chair closes the item and sets deadlines for amendments and the vote.
The Chair opens the AFCO meeting, confirms the agenda and coordinators’ decisions, and introduces the comparative study on the free mandate of MEPs, followed by the rapporteurs’ detailed presentation of the legal framework, immunity, accountability tools, party discipline and their reform recommendations.
MEPs and national MPs debate ideas like temporary voting-right restrictions, gradual accession and curbing vetoes, insisting that institutional reform, consistent rule-of-law conditionality and media freedom must accompany enlargement and avoid double standards. They focus heavily on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional and electoral architecture, human-rights concerns and malign influence in the Western Balkans, before the Commission responds on methodology, Bosnia’s reform needs and public communication, followed by a closing clarification and suspension of the meeting for a break.
Europol and EPPO detail how criminal groups use real estate both as an operational base and as a laundering vehicle, outline fraud against EU housing and renovation funds, and highlight weak reporting by non‑financial gatekeepers, before MEPs question them on simplification, AML rules, cash purchases and database access, and receive answers on enforcement deficits, data access and the scale of property‑based laundering.
The Chair and ECON vice‑chair formally open the hearing, adopt the agenda and set out its focus on criminal use of housing and real estate, situating the discussion within EU money‑laundering risk assessments and the 2024 AML package before introducing Panel 1 with Europol and EPPO.
The Committee opens its meeting, validates the agenda and examines the Pericles 5 and Internal Security Fund files before turning to the Fundamental Rights Agency’s annual report, with the Director presenting key findings and engaging in detailed Q&A on Article 2 TEU values, Charter implementation, AI, migrants’ rights and monitoring under the Migration and Asylum Pact.
The committee launches the public hearing on digital health, hears expert Malawski on current clinical uses of AI and digital twins, and discusses data, EHDS implementation and the need for sovereign European health AI through an extended Q&A with MEPs.
Commission, Meta and civil society set out the DSA- and AVMSD-based framework, Meta’s teen‑safety tools, and evidence of platforms’ non‑compliance, followed by MEPs’ Q&A on DSA enforcement, coordination with GDPR and consumer law, the planned Digital Fairness Act, and the merits and risks of age‑verification, minimum digital ages, smartphone and social‑media bans, and age‑appropriate design obligations under forthcoming EU rules.
National parliamentarians and MEPs underline enlargement as a foreign and security policy imperative, especially regarding the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Moldova, stressing merit-based accession, EU absorption capacity, rule of law and the need to avoid geopolitical vacuums exploitable by Russia, China and other actors. They share national experiences and lessons from past enlargements, raise concerns about Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croat representation, and call for a more geopolitical approach to prevent destabilisation in the region.
Members examine and adopt the Negrescu opinion on integrating and financing health in national plans, then rapidly vote on compromise amendments and the final opinion on psychosocial risks and mental health at work.
The Commission presents its overarching rationale for enlargement as a geostrategic and economic priority, detailing milestones for key candidates and reaffirming a credible, merit-based process. It then explains the main financial and pre-membership instruments, gradual integration tools and shared responsibilities required from both the EU and candidate countries to seize the current momentum.
The rapporteur presents the negotiated compromise on an EU cardiovascular strategy, after which members vote through compromise and individual amendments and finally adopt the report by roll-call vote.
The chair formally opens the interparliamentary meeting, sets the procedural framework, and presents enlargement as the central theme, outlining the two-session structure and expectations for parliamentary engagement. He situates enlargement in the current geopolitical context and prepares the ground for the Commission’s strategic input.
The Chair opens the SANT committee meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, announces member substitutions, and introduces the vote on the EU cardiovascular diseases strategy report.
The Chair opens the IMCO meeting, adopts agenda and minutes, reports on trilogue outcomes (digitalisation, chemicals, defence), and updates members on ongoing DSA/DMA implementation, posted‑workers e‑declaration talks, and outermost‑regions issues relevant to MFF, procurement and customs.
The Commission explains reasons for delays, the infringement sequence and continued technical assistance, lists Member States that have notified measures, addresses scope misunderstandings and employers’ concerns, announces EU funding and links to the Gender Equality Strategy, after which the Chair draws conclusions, calls for combating misinformation and better gender mainstreaming, and closes the meeting.
MEPs from EPP, S&D, the Greens and The Left highlight the life‑course impact of pay gaps, existing national pay transparency laws, and business resistance, and ask which Member States are lagging, how enforcement capacities and labour inspectorates will be supported, how strictly the directive will be applied, and what Parliament can do to support timely and effective transposition.
The Chair opens the agenda point on the Pay Transparency Directive and the Commission presents the directive’s objectives, rejects reopening or ‘stopping the clock’, reports on the state of transposition, and outlines the main support tools and guidance prepared for Member States and social partners.
Final expert interventions on Taliban gender persecution, calls for EU accountability and support to women’s rights, followed by the Chair’s formal closure of the gender apartheid hearing and transition to the agenda item on the EU gender equality strategy.
Political group coordinators and MEPs react to the Commission’s meeting with Taliban representatives, condemn any normalization with regimes practising gender apartheid, debate the role of religion and returns policy, and propose concrete FEMM follow‑up such as a protest declaration and an urgent exchange with the Commission on conditionality and non‑refoulement.
The Chair clarifies institutional responsibility for the Taliban visit as a Commission-led, member state–driven technical dialogue on irregular migration and distances Parliament from hosting the Taliban, then introduces Shukria Barakzai, who broadens the discussion to global patterns of gender apartheid and structural exclusion of women in Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdish regions and other conflict and authoritarian contexts.
Petra Meram questions the EU’s decision to host a Taliban delegation in Brussels, warns of legitimising a regime built on systematic gender persecution, details the Taliban’s codified system of gender apartheid through hundreds of decrees targeting women, and calls for stronger international legal and political action by the EU and global community.
The Chair opens the hearing on gender oppression under Taliban and Iranian rule, sets the objective of addressing gender apartheid as a potential crime against humanity, and the invited experts outline the legal, political and societal architecture of Taliban and Iranian gender persecution, situating it in a global pattern and specifying asks towards the EU and Member States.
The Chair opens the public hearing on gender oppression and gender apartheid against Iranian and Kurdish women, frames it in a human rights and legal context, recalls Parliament’s resolutions on Taliban gender persecution and emerging gender apartheid, and explains the objective to consider recognition of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.
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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