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Parliament conducts a major voting session on the digital euro, asylum scanning, foreign‑affairs urgencies, the 28th tax‑regime report and the humanitarian resolution, then questions the Commission on the classification and circular‑economy uses of wool, before final explanations of vote and formal closure of the Strasbourg part‑session.
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Rapporteur Ódor and Commissioner Šuica introduce the optional 28th regime based on EU Inc to reduce single‑market fragmentation, followed by political groups clashing over deeper tax integration, and closing exchanges on strict optionality, anti‑avoidance safeguards and the balance between competitiveness and fiscal sovereignty.
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Commissioner Kadis presents the CFP evaluation and MEPs debate fleet decline, socio‑economic impacts, landing obligation reform, modernization and decarbonisation, small‑scale fisheries, imports and ecosystem pressures, before the Commissioner signals openness to a targeted legislative amendment and a 2040 fisheries vision.
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EPP MEPs press for revising Article 4(3) of the Western Mediterranean plan to move beyond a “most vulnerable stock” mechanism towards a multi-species, socio-economic model with stabilised effort and clearer multiannual rules, and urge the Commission to table legislative changes by end-2026. The Commission defends the existing effort-based, science-driven framework and its current flexibilities, explains legal and technical limits compared to quota regimes, highlights support tools and anti-IUU measures, and situates any future MAP revisions within the broader CFP and MedFish4Ever review process.
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MEPs from Patriots for Europe, ECR, Renew and the Greens outline contrasting narratives on the causes of the crisis in Mediterranean fisheries, the weight of third-country fleets, and the pace of environmental ambition, while converging on the need to protect small-scale fishers and ensure socio-economic viability. Positions range from calls for greater flexibility and mixed-fisheries management to firm defence of the current MAP scope and science-based rebuilding of overfished stocks, rejecting its use to reopen broader CFP reforms.
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The rapporteur presents the mandate, timeline and aims of revising the Western Mediterranean multiannual plan, emphasising balance between environmental, economic and social pillars and reliance on updated science, followed by the S&D shadow’s call to refocus the text on stock sustainability, long-term management and stronger action against IUU and unsustainable imports. This segment sets out the main strategic choices, national sensitivities and upcoming amendment work on the file.
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The Chair opens the extraordinary Fisheries Committee meeting, confirms the agenda and timing before plenary, then conducts voting on the report on socioeconomic and environmental standards for aquatic food products and on the opinion for the "Global Europe" dossier, including final roll-call results.
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From the opening oral question to the final Commission reply, Parliament and Commissioner Lahbib examine the new EU humanitarian communication, funding gaps, principles of impartial aid, crisis hotspots, conditionality and misuse risks, ending with an announced resolution and same‑day vote.
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A debate on spyware targeting MEPs revisits Pegasus/Predator abuses, legal safeguards, PEGA follow‑up and demands for tighter EU‑level rules and oversight, including an EU tech lab, while some link spyware issues to broader surveillance and security powers. Members then give explanations of votes on foreign‑policy and human‑rights resolutions and the President closes the sitting with announcements for the next day.
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The Commission and MEPs examine the EU’s response to the Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda, focusing on surveillance, vaccines, therapeutics, humanitarian air bridges and health‑system strengthening, and link global health resilience to EU financing. A subsequent debate on the renewed EU bioeconomy strategy addresses industrial competitiveness, strategic autonomy, regulatory barriers, forestry, biobased materials and alignment with biodiversity and food security goals.
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MEPs debate the EU’s role in Gaza early recovery, Israel’s and Hamas’s responsibilities and possible EU measures, including on UNRWA support and the EU–Israel Association Agreement. In urgent human‑rights debates they then address the siege of El Obeid in Sudan and attacks on Christians in Nigeria, calling for ceasefires, accountability, sanctions and stronger EU diplomatic and humanitarian engagement.
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The Vice‑President launches an extensive voting block on objections to delegated acts (biofuels ILUC, lead in tackle, GMOs), EU–Mexico agreements and sectoral criminal law, followed by resolutions on the 2025 Commission reports for Ukraine, Moldova and Serbia and on gender‑based violence linked to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Parliament then adopts objections to several GMO authorisations and concludes the remaining amendment and resolution votes before moving to later thematic debates.
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Council and Commission outline EU civil protection, rescEU capacities and upcoming climate‑resilience frameworks in response to deadly heatwaves and wildfires. Political groups and further speakers clash over Green Deal ambition versus deregulation, climate justice, worker and rural protection, and funding for adaptation, with the Commission stressing UCPM upgrades, guidelines and MFF links.
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The sitting is opened with agenda changes and confirmation of negotiation mandates, followed by the Commission’s presentation of June 2026 European Council conclusions on Ukraine, the Middle East, China and the next MFF. Political groups and catch‑the‑eye speakers then react on migration, defence, climate and rule of law, before the Commission replies on Ukraine support, MFF priorities and climate‑resilience follow‑up.
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Explanations of votes on air passenger rights and social security coordination, followed by confirmation of the next agenda items, approval of the minutes and formal closure of the plenary session by the Chair.
Debate on Moldova’s accession negotiations and the Commission’s 2022 Serbia report, highlighting required reforms, rule‑of‑law benchmarks, security concerns and CFSP alignment as conditions for progress in both enlargement files.
Presentation of the 2023 enlargement report on Ukraine, followed by political group stances on fast‑track membership, sanctions on Russia, war-related impacts, historical disputes, and detailed rule‑of‑law and institutional conditions for accession, concluding with rapporteur and Chair wrap‑up and indication of the vote timeline.
MEPs examine the Commission’s integrated AI and cybersecurity package (NIS2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act and cyber defence tools), focusing on regulatory scope, funding needs, ENISA’s role, SME burden, external dependencies, and protection of critical infrastructure and children.
Part of the sitting focused on external relations, scrutinising the consent mandate for the modernised EU–Mexico Global Agreement and debating conflict-related sexual violence during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and its implications for EU–Turkey relations.
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Plenary segment covering the automotive sector’s 2035 phase‑out debate, the Irish Council Presidency’s legislative programme and reactions, and a consolidated voting block on multiple legislative and policy files.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Berend clarifies how review mechanisms have enabled past restrictions and why drone rules need realistic timelines, before Buda and the co‑rapporteurs frame the package as balancing food security, innovation and safety, reject accusations of industry capture, and defend simplification; the meeting ends with a heated procedural dispute over the chair’s impartiality, confirmation of amendment and vote calendars, and a contentious closure of the session.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Further MEPs highlight clogged approval pipelines, innovation needs, and farmers’ competitiveness versus third‑country imports, while others stress health, environmental and biodiversity risks, cite PFAS and past pesticide scandals, criticise deregulation and lack of impact assessments, and clash over risk‑based versus precautionary approaches, data privacy, MRL setting and the proper role of the AGRI committee.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
DG SANTE’s Klaus Berend explains the objectives, projected cost savings and safety safeguards in the simplification package, justifies risk‑based potentially unlimited approvals with structured review mechanisms, and raises concerns over extending long approval periods and overly broad mutual recognition, while defending a calibrated, EFSA‑based approach to import MRL alignment, emergency authorisations, labelling and SME HACCP obligations.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Shadows and group speakers from S&D, EPP, Patriots for Europe, Renew, Greens, The Left and ID outline sharply diverging positions on unlimited approvals, grace periods, biocontrol prioritisation, drones and mutual recognition, with some welcoming faster, less bureaucratic approvals and reciprocity on import MRLs, while others warn of weakened precaution, extended use of hazardous substances, under‑resourced regulators and industry bias, using testimonies and national analyses to support their arguments.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Co‑rapporteurs Picaro and Dorfmann set out their approach to turn the Food and Feed Omnibus into a genuine simplification and innovation exercise by unblocking renewal procedures, promoting automatic mutual recognition, speeding access to biocontrol and new active substances, and creating a specific EU framework for precision agriculture and drone use, while insisting on reciprocity in trade and maintaining safety standards.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The chairs open the extraordinary joint meeting, adopt the agenda and minutes, outline interpretation and webstreaming, announce the upcoming public hearing on simplification, and emphasise the political and practical importance of the food and feed safety omnibus for farmers and legislators before handing the floor to the co‑rapporteurs.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair organises amendments and votes then opens the ENVI–AGRI joint hearing on simplifying EU food and feed safety rules, where co‑rapporteurs outline priorities on PPP renewals, mutual recognition, biocontrol and precision agriculture, followed by first political reactions on simplification, treated seeds, drone rules and delegated acts timing.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Item 8 covers the Industrial Accelerator Act, with the rapporteur detailing a sovereignty‑focused ‘Made in Europe’ approach, political groups setting out differing priorities on scope, conditionality and climate alignment, and the Commission presenting the instrument’s goals, tools and governance for decarbonised, competitive EU industry.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Extraordinary ENVI meeting opens with agenda and minutes adoption, followed by a substantial voting block on MSR for buildings and road transport, downstream goods, anti‑circumvention measures and a CFP opinion, then moves into the rapporteur’s procedural MSR invalidation file aligned with the ETS review and a detailed exchange with political groups and the Commission on stopping future MSR invalidation, market signals and coherence with the upcoming ETS/MSR reform.
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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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