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Parliament, the Commission and the EIB outline the 2025 mandate and proposed extension, discussing financing volumes, climate, energy, defence, SMEs, cohesion and Treaty limits, followed by group positions on risk profile, regional balance and militarisation and a detailed reply from the EIB Vice‑President.
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Rapporteur, Commission and groups present the inter‑institutional agreement on air passenger rights and then debate core consumer protection elements, including delay thresholds, baggage and seating fees, transparency duties, enforcement mechanisms and impacts on airlines.
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The President opens the sitting, announces agenda, mandates and disciplinary decisions, then handles political points of order on EU policy, ECB accountability, urgent procedures and commemorative requests such as Cyprus 1974.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the separate point on the draft recommendation to conclude the EU–UK competition law cooperation agreement complementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, setting the procedural context for further committee debate and decision.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
MEPs from several groups criticise the information‑first, labelling‑heavy approach for textiles and question standards, loopholes and impacts on recyclability and business models, followed by the Commission’s explanation of JRC’s role and its rationale for prioritising mandatory information requirements before setting binding performance standards.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Commission outlines the horizontal ESPR framework, 2025–2030 work plan and mid‑term review, then details the specific 2027 timetable, legal process and JRC technical basis for the textile apparel delegated act, including links to labelling, EPR fees and circularity metrics.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Debate on expanding ESMA’s direct supervision over key market infrastructures, asset managers and crypto‑asset services, with S&D, ECR and other groups outlining differing positions on centralisation versus national competences, technological neutrality, investor protection and market integration, followed by Commission and rapporteurs detailing negotiation scope, ESMA resources and the legislative timetable for MiFIR, MiFID and SFAR.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The committee closes the ECB hearing and formally opens the agenda point on the market integration and supervision package, with Rapporteur Ferber outlining his strategy on the ESMA data platform, expanded ESMA powers over CCPs/CSDs, a competitiveness mandate and a permanent, technology‑neutral DLT regime aligned with existing market legislation.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Group representatives (S&D, Patriots, ECR, Renew, Greens, Left, EPP) and AGRI/Greens shadows set out conflicting positions on the environmental omnibus and IED livestock scope, contrasting demands for far‑reaching deregulation with defence of the 2024 IED compromise, while the Commission warns against breaching impact‑assessment and Treaty constraints and the Chair announces the timetable for amendments, ENVI vote and plenary.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The chair briefly signals the conclusion of the voting procedure, marking the end of this decision-making step in the committee meeting.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The committee hears ECB Supervisory Chair Buch on bank resilience, AI and climate risks, followed by MEP Q&A on supervisory harmonisation, cross‑border integration, prudential rules, proportionality and digital euro safeguards, including detailed exchanges on climate‑related, AI‑driven and cyber‑security risks and their treatment in the EU capital and banking union framework.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The committee votes by roll call on three objection items: item 9 (49–22–1), item 10 (48–22–1) and item 11 (48–23–1), all adopted. The Chair then closes the voting session and announces a break until 10:30.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The committee moves to item 8, notes EPP requests for roll-call votes on amendments 2 and 9, and votes on compromise amendments 1–10, with compromises 2 and 9 by roll call. A final roll-call vote on item 8 is adopted with 57 in favour, 14 against and 1 abstention.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair conducts rapid roll-call votes on items 1–11, adopting the main texts and objections, then opens items 12–13 on the amending directive for simplification and reduced administrative burden, with the rapporteur’s substitute outlining proposed Industrial Emissions Directive and related technical changes plus the political red lines and timeline toward a November plenary.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
After the compromises, the committee votes on amendments 976, 977 and 30, including an electronic check on 976, and all three amendments are rejected. A final roll-call vote on the item is then opened and adopted with 52 in favour, 4 against and 16 abstentions.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Compromise amendments 10 and 11 are voted by roll call, with a brief correction regarding Renew’s member count before their adoption, followed by hand votes adopting compromises 12 to 22. The chair then closes the compromise block and proceeds to individual amendment 976, which after an initial hand vote is put to an electronic check.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
In an ENVI-only session, the committee proceeds through compromise packages, individual amendments and final roll‑call votes on items 7 and 8, then adopts three objection items (9–11) by roll‑call majorities before adjourning the voting block for a break.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The ENVI chair restarts the session, announces substitutions specific to ENVI, and opens item 7 concerning roll call requests by Patriots and ECR on items 10 and 11. Compromise amendments 1 to 9 are then put to a show of hands and each is declared adopted.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The committee votes in sequence on compromise amendments 1 to 22 under item 7, mainly by show of hands, with compromises 10 and 11 decided by roll-call vote after resolving a Renew Group headcount issue. All compromise amendments put to the vote are adopted.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair opens the ENVI voting session, announces substitute members for the vote and confirms the move to agenda item 7. Procedural clarifications include roll-call requests by Patriots and ECR and the method of voting (show of hands vs. roll call).
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Chair Pierfrancesco MARAN announces substitutes for the joint vote, conducts a test vote of the system and then the roll call vote on the provisional Omnibus agreement. The file is adopted by 123 votes in favour, 10 against and 6 abstentions, the rapporteur is congratulated, and a short break is called to allow non‑ENVI members to leave before ENVI-only business continues.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The joint committees hold and adopt the roll-call vote on the Omnibus IV provisional agreement before ENVI continues alone with successive voting blocks on items 7 and 8, covering compromise packages, specific roll-call requests and final adoptions, then opens the roll-call vote on an objection under item 9.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
LIBE chair Javier ZARZALEJOS joins in welcoming the negotiating team, recalls this is the second file in the Omnibus 4 package and refers to the earlier vote on the related directive. He notes quorum and absence of further LIBE replacements, then proceeds to adopt, without objection, the minutes of the 4 December 2025 meeting.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
A new joint ECON–LIBE–ENVI meeting is opened to vote on the Omnibus 4 provisional agreement; the ECON chair presents the trilogue outcome on extending SME mitigating measures to small mid‑caps and defining this new EU category, followed by the LIBE chair’s quorum check, procedural confirmations and a roll‑call vote adopting the Omnibus 4 regulation.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The ENVI/ECON/LIBE joint meeting is opened, the agenda is adopted, and the chair introduces the vote on the provisional agreement on the Omnibus file, welcoming the co-rapporteurs and Commission. ECON chair Aurore LALUCQ outlines the outcome of the second trilogue on the mid-caps Omnibus, the extension of SME mitigating measures to small mid-caps, the anti–cliff-edge objective, the employee/turnover/asset thresholds, and the cross-cutting introduction of the new category in EU legislation.
Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The joint session is opened, the agenda is adopted and a test vote is held before members vote electronically to adopt the amending directives extending existing SME mitigating measures to small mid‑cap enterprises, closing the short joint meeting.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
LIBE first adopts its agenda and votes on the amending directive extending mitigating measures from SMEs to small mid-cap enterprises, then ENVI and ECON jointly open the Omnibus IV session, adopt the joint agenda and present the provisional political agreement defining small mid-caps and its cross-cutting insertion in EU legislation, with procedural checks on quorum and previous minutes.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
ENVI members and Commission services debate the draft 2027 budget opinion for environment, climate and health, with political groups outlining priorities on LIFE, biodiversity, fossil fuel phase-out and implementation capacity, before the Chair sets amendment deadlines and the voting calendar and suspends the meeting ahead of the next session.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Chair opens the ENVI meeting, adopts the agenda and coordinators’ decisions, then reports on trilogue outcomes regarding France’s accession to the Inter-American Sea Turtles Convention and the ECHA governance and financial stability regulation, outlining key compromises and next procedural steps via Coreper and post‑summer committee votes.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Chair conducts an electronic test vote, then proceeds to vote on the draft report amending three permitting directives by show of hands and roll-call, declares it approved, and subsequently holds and approves the roll-call vote on the mandate to enter interinstitutional negotiations before closing the meeting.
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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