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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Rapporteur and centrist shadows present and debate amendments on EU corporate taxation, balancing competitiveness, anti‑abuse rules, simplification, harmonisation and SME protection, followed by further MEP exchanges on harmful tax competition, digital taxation, OECD/UN coordination and the risks of unilateral EU measures such as windfall and digital levies.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Acting Chair launches panel two and Austria and Spain present their views on how integrating CAP into broader national partnership plans could weaken EU‑level ring‑fencing, complicate governance and audits, and endanger timely and targeted support to farmers.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The chair introduces a dedicated hearing on South Sudan, followed by detailed briefings from the UN Deputy SRSG, DG ECHO and MSF on the scale of needs, under‑funding, access constraints, violence against civilians and aid workers, Ebola importation risks, and the collapse of health services, alongside EU funding levels and civil protection actions.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Introduction of the draft report on the VAT reverse charge mechanism by the rapporteur, setting out the scale of VAT fraud, fragmentation of national schemes, links with ViDA and proposed extensions, followed by political group responses on the scope, duration and harmonisation of the reverse charge, SME impacts and broader tax objectives, before the Chair closes the VAT file and moves to corporate tax.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
The committee holds an exchange of views with Italian and German market surveillance authorities and DG GROW on combating illegal and dangerous products entering the single market, especially via e‑commerce and small parcels from third countries. Italy details online surveillance challenges, lack of interoperable IT systems (ICSMS, Safety Gate, customs), low awareness among operators and consumers, and participation in joint actions and sweeps, while Germany illustrates extremely low control densities at customs and in online trade, data‑access gaps, and the need to move from product‑by‑product checks to a systemic, data‑driven approach targeting illegal business models; the Commission outlines ongoing and planned interoperability, AI‑based detection tools, stronger rules on authorized representatives and an underperformance review under the forthcoming European Product Act, amid MEP questions on consumer guidance and possible links to the Digital Fairness Act.
Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
IMCO turns to the opinion on suspending authorized representative rules for producer responsibility under the Batteries Regulation and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, as part of the simplification omnibus. Standing in for the absent rapporteur, Pál Szekeres presents compromises limiting a temporary (up to 1 July 2029 or until the Circular Economy Act applies) suspension of AR obligations to micro and small enterprises, as a political signal while preserving long‑term legislative ambition; DG ENV explains the intention to ease administrative burden only for EU producers, maintain obligations for third‑country producers, link the suspension closely to the future Circular Economy Act, and warns that size‑based exemptions risk fragmentation and extra oversight complexity for national authorities.
Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
IMCO examines its draft opinion on the 2027 EU budget, with rapporteur Piotr Müller (speaking Polish) calling for less bureaucracy, stronger support for SMEs, tougher customs and market surveillance against unsafe imports, reinforced funding for border and defence‑related industry, and a competitiveness fund that balances climate transition with industrial viability. EPP, PfE and Greens shadows broadly endorse the competitiveness and consumer protection focus while signalling amendments to top up lines for customs, consumer protection, market surveillance, standardisation and single‑market governance, after which the rapporteur welcomes technical amendments and looks ahead to MFF talks.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
MEPs question farm organisations on capping, renationalisation risks and CAP design, followed by stakeholder proposals on capping rules, ring‑fencing and risk tools, and the Commission’s response outlining budget protection mechanisms, national flexibility and governance under the NRPP framework.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
The committee resumes with a short voting session on the draft opinion on institutional aspects of artificial intelligence for AFCO, with rapporteur Gheorghe Piperea confirming compromises are stable. After a test vote, IMCO adopts compromise amendments by show of hands and then approves the final opinion by roll‑call vote (33 in favour, 5 against, 1 abstention).
Committee on Development (DEVE)
The committee resumes with a presentation of the DEVE mission to Mozambique, where the head and members of the delegation describe security, displacement, child marriage, LNG‑related grievances and Global Gateway projects, and the chair and Commission link these to NDICI–Global Europe priorities while proposing a plenary debate and resolution to anchor follow‑up on human development, gender and Ebola preparedness.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Farm Europe presents its preferred CAP architecture, conditionality and risk‑management model, after which shadow rapporteurs from main political groups outline their red lines on the two‑pillar structure, EU vs national financing, budget size and implications for the single market.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Opening of the FISC meeting and presentation of the EPRS ex‑post study on the VAT reverse charge and Quick Reaction Mechanism, including key findings on implementation, anti‑fraud effectiveness, business impacts and options for redesign or discontinuation in light of ViDA and future VAT policy choices, followed by MEP Q&A and the Commission’s outline of its planned extension of Articles 199a/199b and their reassessment after 2030.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair sets out the AGRI‑BUDG‑REGI joint mandate, legislative context and speaking rules for the hearing, followed by Copa‑Cogeca’s detailed position on CAP governance, funding structure, conditionality and incentives from the farmers’ perspective.
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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
IMCO opens day two with Maria Guzenina presenting her draft opinion on simplifying the MDR/IVDR rules, focusing on balancing patient safety with reduced administrative burden, time‑limited certificates, unannounced and remote audits, keeping medical devices within the AI Act, and fee reductions for SMEs. EPP and Renew shadows broadly support simplification and competitiveness while stressing safety, and DG SANTE’s Flora Giorgio underlines the Commission’s risk‑based approach, integration of AI requirements into MDR, proportional recertification and transparency via EUDAMED; the rapporteur closes by welcoming negotiations.
Committee on Development (DEVE)
The chair opens the DEVE meeting, confirms procedural arrangements and then leads a sequence of electronic and show‑of‑hands votes on the Civil Protection Mechanism opinion, the resolution on strengthening global health resilience, and the resolution on the joint communication on humanitarian aid, including compromise, split and roll‑call votes and final adoption results.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
National MPs and MEPs debate how to finance EU‑level defence and strategic investments through the MFF and new own resources, then assess the proposed MFF structure and timetable, warning that debt, merged envelopes and excessive flexibility could undermine CAP, cohesion and fisheries while weakening transparency, parliamentary scrutiny and democratic accountability.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Carla Tavares and 3 others
OLAF and the EP rapporteur outline governance, audit, anti‑fraud and traceability lessons from the RRF for the next MFF, followed by initial political reactions from the Chair and national/EU parliamentarians defending cohesion and CAP, criticising performance‑based national plans and warning against cuts and centralisation.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Coordinators and MEPs question the expert on domestic burden‑sharing mechanisms, refugee return intentions, links to US and non‑EU reconstruction funds, roles and benefits for frontline states such as Poland, anti‑corruption oversight and use of frozen Russian assets, and challenge broader assumptions on Ukraine policy and defence industry priorities, prompting the expert’s clarifications on fair reconstruction and conditions for return.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
The expert outlines Ukraine’s anti‑corruption and transparency tools, particularly the DREAM platform, and proposes an eight‑point action agenda for the European Parliament covering financial taxonomy, demographic and return policies, oversight via the Verkhovna Rada, Commission delivery plans for the Ukraine Reserve, regional twinning, and framing reconstruction within EU defence architecture.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
The expert sets out the wartime reconstruction paradigm, criticises the Marshall Plan analogy, details funding taxonomy and the modernization premium that could push needs toward €1 trillion, and highlights demographic, security and operational gaps that must be addressed in linking reconstruction to EU accession.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
The Chair closes the previous item, formally opens the Ukraine point, explains the mandate and status of the EP‑commissioned study on reconstruction, recalls ongoing Russian attacks and existing EU financial support, and frames the presentation as expert input rather than an official Parliament position.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Andreas Schwab and 1 other
Chair Schwab closes the first panel, reopens the sitting, and launches the second session on the next MFF, followed by Italian, French and Dutch parliamentarians outlining priorities on preserving CAP and cohesion, resisting renationalisation via national plans, structuring a European Competitiveness Fund, and defining new own resources and conditionality with demographic and regional equity concerns.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
National MPs present implementation performance and systemic execution risks of their recovery plans, question the politicisation and effectiveness of RRF conditionality and controls, and receive a detailed European Court of Auditors assessment comparing the RRF control framework with cohesion policy and highlighting key transparency and performance gaps.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Chair proceeds to voting on compromise amendments and then to the final roll-call vote on the East Asia report, which is adopted with 56 in favour, six against and four abstentions, followed by congratulations to the rapporteur and an announcement that the next agenda item will be held in camera.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Chair introduces the draft report on the changing geopolitical situation in East Asia and the need for closer cooperation with like-minded partners, conducts a test of the voting system, and gives the floor to rapporteur Adam Bielan, who outlines the balanced compromise, focus on EU cooperation with East Asian partners (excluding overlap with EU-China work), and calls for broad support.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Chair opens the Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting, confirms webstreaming and interpretation, adopts the agenda and previous minutes without objection, and announces a short voting session ahead.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Andreas Schwab and 3 others
Introduces the interparliamentary meeting’s focus on RRF oversight and the next MFF, then moves to national parliament interventions and a specific Spain‑related case illustrating broader weaknesses in beneficiary transparency, fund tracing and conditionality enforcement.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
This block covers a new MEP’s concerns over party discipline and dependence created by electoral systems, followed by experts’ analysis of constitutional limits to the free mandate and debate on the democratic legitimacy and design of external ethics or integrity bodies in EU and national contexts, ending with a focused exchange on transparency tools in the European Parliament, their potential chilling effects and their role in political accountability after recent scandals.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
From EP sanctions and hate speech thresholds to disinformation and ‘mal-information’, MEPs and experts debate how far Parliament can discipline speech without undermining the free mandate, examining undefined legal concepts, reliance on external standards and the risks of over‑legalising political expression.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The Chair and MEPs question the experts on the study’s governance focus, legal bases for restricting free speech, the EU’s 27+1 immunity regime, calibrated transparency, data‑protection limits and the practical dominance of party discipline over the free mandate in different constitutional systems.
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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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