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In closed session, a member questions the effectiveness and timeliness of trade sanctions under the EU yellow and red card system for IUU fishing, highlighting ongoing illegal exports from flagged third countries. The exchange pressures the Commission on stricter enforcement of the IUU framework and the credibility of its sanctioning mechanism.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair closes the previous agenda item, organises the timetable and formally opens the EU Inc / 28th regime hearing, before academic experts detail legal weaknesses on preventive control, worker participation, and risks of labour law circumvention and forum shopping compared to existing EU company law rules.
Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
MEPs scrutinise the Commission on EDPCI design, governance and funding, its links with EDIP, EDF and the future European Defence Industry Programme/Competitiveness Fund, SME access, treatment of missile IP gaps, rationalisation of intergovernmental initiatives and the credibility of new joint projects given past failures.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
MEPs question the ECA and Commission on defining and measuring sustainable integration, addressing structural labour market barriers, improving outreach to inactive NEETs and redesigning hiring incentives, while discussing indicators and subsidy design under the Youth Guarantee and ESF/MFF frameworks.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
MEPs highlight national rule‑of‑law concerns, especially regarding Poland and Article 267 preliminary references, before the Chair opens the expert hearing at which Dame Eleanor Sharpston presents the CJEU’s methods, language regime and constitutional case law in the broader judicial dialogue.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair closes the previous agenda point, defines SEDE’s role on common defence procurement and space, and formally opens the EDPCI/EDIP item before giving the floor to the Commission to present the framework and funding model.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair and ECA present the audit mandate, scope and key findings on EU youth employment measures, including data gaps, design flaws in hiring incentives and weak outreach to inactive NEETs, with initial recommendations for reform.
Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens item 10 on Lebanon with political framing, followed by institutional briefings on casualties, displacement, IHL violations and accountability needs, and on how the EU’s political, security and humanitarian tools support reforms, UNIFIL’s transition, sovereignty and human rights commitments.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs probe SRB readiness for digital bank runs, options for closer coordination between national deposit guarantee schemes and the Single Resolution Fund, the scope and sequencing of a banking competitiveness package and European deposit insurance, and risks of Basel non‑compliance or deregulation, with Laboureix supporting an EDIS‑type third pillar, a holistic home–host and liquidity package, and preserving robust international standards to safeguard financial stability and cross‑border resolution credibility.
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The Chair and Commission open and scrutinise the GFCM-based multiannual plan for Adriatic small pelagics, addressing its scientific basis, socio-economic impact and governance arrangements. The agenda then shifts to invasive species, focusing on pufferfish impacts in the Aegean, available EU funding tools, Member State responsibilities and forthcoming Commission initiatives before the public session closes.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Rapporteur and group positions confront the Commission’s approach on skills, job quality, social dimension, subsidiarity, housing and anti-poverty tools, followed by the Commission’s detailed replies on the legal nature, use and practical impact of the guidelines before formal closure of the item.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair closes the Irish Presidency exchange and opens the agenda item on the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, introducing the hearing on its trade and seafarer impacts, followed by detailed briefings from the IMO Secretary-General and the European Commission on legal principles, surveillance data and EU/IMO diplomatic efforts for a safe, toll‑free reopening, and concluding with MEP questions on formal protection mechanisms, seafarer welfare and company responsibilities in conflict zones.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Executive Director details EUSPA’s current mandate over EU space assets, associated security and SST responsibilities, and defence‑relevant services, followed by MEP questions on Russian ASAT threats, space infrastructure protection and jamming, and on the upcoming recast of the EUSPA regulation, agency seat in Prague and secure connectivity alternatives to commercial systems like Starlink.
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Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
The Chair resumes the meeting, validates coordinators’ decisions and elects the fourth Vice‑Chair, then gives the floor to Rapporteur Weimers to introduce his Article 19 TEU report and to political groups to state their positions on the CJEU’s role, powers and primacy of EU law.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The committee opens a hearing with SRB Chair Laboureix on the SRB’s annual report, progress on bank resolvability and CMDI, and the balance between competitiveness and strong resolution rules, followed by questions on the SRB’s input to the Commission’s competitiveness work, possible simplification of MREL and TLAC, and the architecture for an EU‑level liquidity backstop, where Laboureix argues for holistic, non‑deregulatory reforms and completion of Banking Union including an SRF‑backed ECB liquidity model.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
From the Chair’s introduction to the Commission’s explanation of the 2026 employment guidelines, this block sets the legal and procedural context within the European Semester and clarifies the four guideline pillars, their link to CSRs, budget planning and anti-poverty measures.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair reopens the EMPL meeting and introduces the 2026 employment guidelines within the European Semester, followed by the Commission’s detailed presentation of the overhauled guidelines 5–8 on labour demand, supply, matching and equal opportunities, and concludes with the rapporteur outlining Parliament’s political priorities, the link with CSRs and social convergence, and concerns about the Semester’s democratic legitimacy.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
MEPs use a second question round to challenge the Irish Presidency on military mobility, tourism policy, automotive and ports, followed by ministers detailing Presidency priorities on CEF and MFF links, IMO climate framework, weights and dimensions, and the EU sustainable tourism strategy.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens item 9 on surrogacy under the violence against women mandate, the UN Special Rapporteur presents her human-rights and market‑based analysis of surrogacy, and MEPs question her on regulatory models, links to trafficking, EU versus national competences and children’s rights, followed by detailed replies on data gaps, abusive practices and the primacy of the child’s best interests.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The exchange turns to the scope and phasing of ESMA’s direct supervision under MISP, the Presidency’s handling of political divides to reach an October deal, priorities in the supplementary pensions package and competition policy, and concrete deliverables for the Savings and Investment Union and digital euro, with Harris advocating gradual but meaningful centralisation where value‑adding, advancing pensions and securitisation files, and building public trust in an optional, privacy‑respecting digital euro.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The committee concludes voting on the opinion regarding occupational retirement provision, including decisions on amendments and the final roll-call vote, and then adopts the opinion on the EU–Swiss bilateral agreements package before briefly pausing the meeting ahead of the next agenda item with the Commission.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Coordinators and MEPs question the Presidency on CEF and MFF transport funding, key road, aviation and automotive files and passenger rights, with Ministers setting out Council priorities, timelines and constraints across the main transport dossiers.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs question Harris on the October deadline for a Council general approach on the market integration and supervision package, the balance between speed and quality of financial supervision reform, use of escape clauses and fiscal space for energy and defence, stronger conditionality on EU funds, and how to mobilise large‑scale investment for the Energy Union while maintaining fiscal sustainability, with Harris emphasising proportional central supervision, the SIU as a financing tool and the MFF ‘negotiating box’ process.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The committee conducts the complete voting sequence on the Youth Guarantee report, first adopting a broad package of compromise amendments and then voting on numerous individual and split amendments, ending with a roll-call final vote adopting the report with a detailed breakdown of votes and abstentions.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair introduces the sixth revision of the Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Directive (CMRD6) and the rapporteur presents the provisional trilogue agreement, detailing new occupational exposure limits, transition periods, clarifications on PPE and hazardous medicinal products, recognition of specific worker groups, and upcoming Council and Parliament procedural steps.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair opens the TRAN meeting and the Irish ministers present the trio Presidency context, horizontal transport themes, and detailed priorities on competitiveness, decarbonisation and citizen-focused transport and tourism files.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The Chair opens the session and Minister Harris, as ECOFIN President, sets out the Irish Council Presidency’s overall motto, three main pillars and key workstreams, including the Savings and Investment Union, competitiveness, supervision, securitisation, pensions, tax, CBAM and implementation of the new economic governance framework and RRF.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
From the opening of the SEDE meeting through successive Q&A blocks, members and the NATO Deputy Secretary General review Ankara summit decisions, NATO 3.0 transformation, defence investment and industrial ramp‑up, European strategic autonomy and burden sharing, rapid response arrangements and SACEUR’s role, and political tensions around Turkey, Cyprus and alliance unity, before the Chair closes the NATO item.
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Experts and EU institutions present regionalisation case studies for Western Waters, the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea, detailing governance frameworks, delegated acts, recovery plans and science–policy interfaces. The segment concludes with a broader debate on how CFP regionalisation operates in practice, including socio-economic integration, data and enforcement gaps, and cooperation with non‑EU countries.
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Chair opens the EMPL meeting, adopts the agenda, explains interpretation/speech-to-text arrangements, recalls Parliament’s mandate on MFF-related negotiations, and reports back from the informal EPSCO Council and recent changes in committee responsibilities and membership.
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European Political Community - 2 - International Summit
European Political Community - 1 - International Summit
Plenary Session
European Commissioner Andrius KUBILIUS in Italy
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
European Commissioner Andrius KUBILIUS at the UARM Hub Launch: From Frontline Innovation to European Defence Readiness
Committee on Constitutional Affairs Ordinary meeting
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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