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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Chair opens the ITRE committee meeting, confirms webstreaming and interpretation arrangements, and adopts the agenda, introducing the vote on amendments to three directives concerning permitting procedures with rapporteur Nils Fuglsang.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Examination of the fertilizer price crisis package and CAP amendment, AGRI’s draft opinion on the 2027 EU budget for CAP with Commission figures, and the trilogue outcome on the plant reproductive material regulation leading to final procedural announcements and closure of the sitting.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Professor Bodnar details Polish rule of law concerns, European Arrest Warrant implications and Pegasus surveillance issues, followed by the Chair organising a coordinated round of questions to EU institutions and stakeholders on asylum abuse, mutual trust safeguards and possible reinforcement of Eurojust’s mandate.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEP Wawrykiewicz raises systemic rule‑of‑law concerns around the EAW, Schengen mutual trust and US sanctions on ICC officials, prompting the Commission, Eurojust and CCBE to outline existing legal and soft‑law tools, impacts on accountability work, and the practical use of EU rule‑of‑law safeguards by defence lawyers.
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Committee on Housing Crisis (special committee) (HOUS)
MEPs question how EU and national instruments can better reach small promoters while avoiding financialisation and speculative uses, prompting EIB and promotional banks to explain safeguards, cooperative eligibility and youth loan impacts, before the Commission details the European Affordable Housing Plan, EIB operations and planned state‑aid adaptations within the current and next MFF.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Eurojust details its operational role in mutual recognition, including corruption and public‑procurement cases, competing EAWs and detention‑condition assessments, followed by the CCBE stressing lawyers’ role in safeguarding mutual trust, judicial independence and defence rights amid expanding surveillance and data‑access powers.
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Committee on Housing Crisis (special committee) (HOUS)
National and regional promotional banks from Croatia and Catalonia present their housing mandates and instruments, including upcoming national housing laws, revolving funds, long‑term subsidised loans and youth homeownership schemes, and outline specific EU‑level regulatory changes needed on state‑aid and EU budget rules to scale blended affordable housing finance.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair opens the LIBE DRFMG meeting and frames the mandate, then the Commission sets out its competence on criminal procedural law and the European Arrest Warrant, explaining key CJEU case law, the two‑step fundamental‑rights test and the policy choice to support mutual recognition through non‑legislative tools rather than revising the EAW.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Debate on the Common Market Organisation reform, including strategic stocks, crisis instruments and sectoral tools, followed by a procedural clash on Parliament’s role in the EU–Mexico trade agreement and a roll‑call vote before moving to the fertilizer agenda point.
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Committee on Housing Crisis (special committee) (HOUS)
Banque des Territoires and CDP present long-term housing finance models, including regulated-savings, fund-of-funds equity structures and InvestEU-backed lending, outline national 2030 housing roadmaps, and call for EU recognition of housing as strategic infrastructure with stronger blending, subsidies and guarantees.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
The Commission justifies its proposal, insisting on unchanged safety and ethics, explains the conditional 12‑month SPC incentive and its links with wider pharmaceutical files, while the co‑rapporteurs rebut criticism, restate the Act’s key pillars, outline compromise work and the Chair announces the amendment deadline before closing.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
The JURI rapporteur and catch‑the‑eye MEPs debate ethical and legal safeguards for AI in healthcare, oppose or defend SPC extensions, call for stronger harmonisation of trials, raise concerns about reliance on non‑EU data, and highlight centres of excellence, skills and geographic balance of biotech activities.
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Committee on Housing Crisis (special committee) (HOUS)
The Chair opens the special committee hearing, adopts the agenda and minutes, then the EIB and Council of Europe Development Bank set out their mandates, housing action plans and financial instruments for affordable and social housing across Europe, highlighting needs for guarantees, subsidies and EU platforms.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Shadows from EPP, S&D, ID, ECR, Renew, Greens and ENS set out their positions on biotech sovereignty, clinical trial timelines and governance, data protection, IP and SPC extensions, strategic project criteria, ethical safeguards and the balance between industrial incentives, biosimilars and affordability.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
The Chair opens the joint SANT–ITRE meeting, sets out procedure and context, and the co‑rapporteurs present their strategic vision for the European Biotech Act, focusing on competitiveness, clinical trials reform, data and AI use, EMA’s role and financing tools such as a scale‑up fund.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Opening of the AGRI meeting and a full political debate on the CAP 2028–2034 implementation regulation, covering Lins’ draft report, group positions on capping, redistribution, renationalisation risks, social and environmental conditionality, and final reactions from the Chair and Commission before closing the CAP item.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Commission outlines the mandate, core pillars and timeline of the EU anti‑corruption strategy, followed by MEP scrutiny on prevention tools, institutional integrity (including EU bodies and party financing), coordination and enforcement gaps, Rule of Law conditionality, civil society and media protection, lobbying and revolving doors, sanctions and amnesties, and support for enforcement and cross‑border cooperation including EPPO and asset recovery.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Türk provides consolidated responses on universality and cross‑cultural roots of human rights, UN and EU roles in AI and digital governance, lethal autonomous weapons, OHCHR monitoring in Ukraine and treatment of reparations as bilateral, reporting on Cyprus, balancing attention to Israel and Palestine, and Bucha investigations, followed by brief MEP follow‑ups on reparations and Cyprus and closing remarks from Satouri and McAllister on Russia’s aggression, the ICC and the Global Alliance.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
A German MEP asks for concrete proof of EPPO’s added value and the effectiveness of Eurofisc’s cooperation with Germany, leading to case examples of EPPO’s cross‑border impact and explanations of Eurofisc liaison structures and handling of German alerts.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Debate focuses on identifying the main vulnerabilities in the current VAT regime, EPPO’s call for stronger repression of organised crime, OLAF’s support for a definitive VAT system, and Eurofisc’s emphasis on best practices and political awareness.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
MEPs Wiseler‑Lima, Assis, Ferenc, Mularczyk, Søvndal, Tarquinio, Geadi and Braun question Türk on attacks on multilateralism and universality of rights, neglected conflicts, UN work on AI and online harms, alleged unlawful mobilization and minority treatment in Ukraine, WWII reparations for Polish victims, EU double standards on Israel–Palestine, the impact of military technologies, ‘foreign agents’ laws, Cyprus, and investigations into Bucha.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Commission introduces the broader justice and internal security package, then focuses on proposed Eurojust reforms to mandate, resources, data‑protection lex specialis and procedural tools (EIO and European Remote Participation Order), followed by MEPs’ questions on extending Eurojust’s scope to new crime areas, impacts on staffing, IT and national members’ powers, and safeguarding judicial autonomy and data ownership.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
MEPs question EPPO, OLAF and Eurofisc on practical obstacles, powers and resources, prompting detailed responses on operational needs, legal mandates, data gaps and IT tools for tackling cross‑border VAT and customs fraud.
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Chairs McAllister and Satouri open the joint AFET–DROI session, frame the debate in light of global conflicts and democratic backsliding, and give the floor to High Commissioner Türk, who outlines current armed conflicts, systemic breaches of IHL and human rights, shrinking civic space, and the role of business and digital governance within the planned Global Alliance for Human Rights and UN–EU partnership.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Niedermayer questions whether ViDA, reverse charge and digital tools are sufficient to tackle VAT fraud, prompting EPPO, OLAF and Eurofisc to detail the potential and limits of e‑invoicing, AI and shared databases, and to stress the need for robust legal bases, resources and compulsory data use to make digitalisation effective.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Chairs and heads of EPPO, OLAF and Eurofisc set the scene on the scale and mechanisms of VAT and customs fraud, present their respective mandates, tools and cooperation, and outline structural gaps in data, resourcing and legal frameworks that hinder effective EU‑level enforcement.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair reopens the Europol mandate revision file, the Commission presents its reform package on information exchange, big data, police data space and governance, and MEPs from several groups question the risk of an ‘EU FBI’, limits on data processing and automation, interaction with national competences, and oversight, with the Chair closing the item and calling for constructive inter‑institutional negotiations.
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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
European flags at half-mast following the dramatic accident on the Trakia motorway in the area of Yambol, in Bulgaria
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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