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MEPs from several groups react to the study by raising concerns on producer organisations, small-scale fisheries, generational renewal, newcomers and the public nature of the resource, debate the balance between national discretion and EU steering, and discuss environmental and social criteria, while the expert and DG MARE respond on evidence, legal limits and emerging national reforms.
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Consultant Griffin Carpenter presents his study on how Member States allocate fishing opportunities, detailing legal bases, data and criteria used, showing the predominance of historical catches and equal access, assessing the limited impact of Article 17, and identifying barriers and possible EU/national ways forward.
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The Chair opens the Fisheries Committee meeting, outlines the post-summer legislative agenda and conducts the vote on the committee opinion and amendments for the 2027 EU budget, then introduces the study on allocation of fishing opportunities and its role ahead of December TAC/quota decisions.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
DG REGIO details NEB’s integration into cohesion funding, concrete project examples and allocated amounts, stressing support for smaller authorities and citizen engagement, before the Chair opens Panel 2 on post‑2026/27 continuity with a Saxony‑Anhalt deep‑rural NEB laboratory financed by the Just Transition Fund.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
Minister O’Brien presents the Irish Council Presidency’s climate, ETS, circular economy and international negotiation priorities, followed by two detailed rounds of MEP questions and replies on ETS design and timetable, CO2 standards for cars, water resilience, environmental omnibus regulation, nuclear and energy mix, LIFE and MFF, and protecting households and SMEs during the green transition.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
MEPs question how NEB can counter housing monopolies, avoid deregulation risks, and better reach rural and peripheral territories, prompting replies that link past privatisations, loneliness and under‑used housing to NEB research, and highlight communication, local capacity, citizen participation and quality‑focused investment as key enabling conditions.
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Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI)
The Chair conducts the afternoon voting session on ENVI-relevant EU budget lines, including compromise and roll-call votes, and then puts to a roll-call the Patriots’ challenge to the allocation of ETS rapporteurships, ultimately confirming the coordinators’ decision and closing the procedural block.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Murphy and Schagemann present practice‑based principles for embedding NEB values in territorial development, emphasising inclusion, long‑term cohesion, local delivery capacity, and design quality, and call for procurement reform, clear NEB budgetary anchoring and MFF levers to finance early‑stage planning and small actors.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The Chair opens the hearing on the New European Bauhaus, situating it within the next MFF and cohesion policy, while Marčetić uses the housing crisis and financialisation to question whether EU‑level core values and NEB’s scope can effectively address monopolisation and socio‑economic inequality.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Ivana Maletić and 4 others
The European Court of Auditors presents its findings on transparency and traceability of RRF funds, followed by MEP concerns about opaque national governance and replication of the performance model in NRPPs, and a DG ECFIN–ECA exchange on legal limits, indicators, cost data and the need to improve financial regulation, transparency and traceability in future performance‑based instruments.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Political group coordinators and other MEPs question the Minister on hydrogen rules, the Energy Security Package, data‑centre demand, industrial policy, windfall taxation and ETS relief, prompting a focused exchange on maintaining ETS integrity versus short‑term relief, where O’Brien outlines his honest‑broker role, citizen‑centred approach and Council workplan on the ETS file.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The committee hears the study on GAP III implementation in EU external action, highlighting institutionalization gains but major gaps in impact, funding and monitoring, followed by co-rapporteur and political group reactions outlining divergent priorities and ambitions for a more transformative GAP IV and post-2027 financing framework.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Minister O’Brien details priorities on energy security, electrification, grids and key legislative files, links recent climate and price shocks to the need for a resilient, affordable clean‑energy system, and signals upcoming Energy Councils on resilience and the post‑2030 framework to strengthen EU strategic autonomy.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The chair opens Item 8 and introduces Irish Minister Dara O’Brien, who presents the Irish EU Council Presidency’s overall vision, guiding principles and three strategic pillars in the energy and climate field.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Rapporteur Omarjee, political groups, EESC and the Commission debate insularity as a structural handicap, connectivity and state‑aid rules, impacts of ETS/FuelEU on island transport, overtourism and housing, governance tools such as an insularity observatory and territorial impact tests, and calls for binding insularity clauses, dedicated resources and a possible ‘Dublin Pact’ for islands within cohesion and broader EU policies.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Members report on the FEMM mission to Georgia, detailing democratic backsliding, gender equality setbacks and civil society repression, debate methodological choices such as not meeting government representatives, and discuss how Parliament should structure follow-up, manage expectations and plan future engagement around elections and visits.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The Commission presents its new EU Islands Strategy under Article 174 TFEU and the first strategy for resilient coastal communities under the Ocean Pact, detailing policy pillars, flagship actions, blue economy priorities and how island and coastal needs should be reflected in future EU funds and the next MFF without extra administrative burden.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
FEMM conducts its institutional role in the EU budget procedure by voting on its opinion to the 2027 General Budget and the accompanying resolution, including substitutions, compromise texts, individual and roll-call amendments, and final adoption of the committee’s position.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The committee closes the wildfire item and proceeds to vote on REGI amendments to the 2027 budget and then on compromise amendments to the new performance framework opinion, shaping Parliament’s stance on expenditure tracking, indicators, simplification for beneficiaries and the preservation of climate‑related ‘do no significant harm’ provisions.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Procedural opening of the FEMM meeting with adoption of the agenda, coordinators’ decisions and previous minutes, setting the framework for subsequent budgetary and policy items.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The ITRE chair opens the post‑summer meeting, confirms agenda and voting modalities, tests the electronic system, and then conducts votes on amendments to the 2027 EU general budget, including a compromise and final roll‑call vote before pausing the sitting.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
MEPs from several groups detail how to embed resilience as a cohesion objective, extend RESTORE‑type reprogramming and funding flexibility, address rural and forestry impacts, strengthen fire services and civil protection, and ensure ‘do no significant harm’, before DG ECHO presents UCPM operations, rescEU air assets, wildfire risk management and the limits of RESTORE under current rules.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
The Chair opens the REGI meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the focus on heatwaves and wildfires, followed by EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens, The Left and ESN outlining how cohesion policy, ERDF and the next MFF should integrate climate resilience, prevention and less bureaucratic emergency support.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
MEPs question the Irish Presidency on the future of cohesion policy, NRPP governance, treatment of territorial specificities, funding predictability and simplification, with the Minister outlining the Presidency’s cautious approach and priorities, before the acting chair formally closes the REGI committee meeting and announces the next session.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
Kos details the role of religious actors and proactive EU narratives against disinformation in candidate countries, then addresses Serbia’s trajectory, anti‑EU rhetoric, CFSP alignment, safeguard clauses and democratic resilience benchmarks before closing the exchange.
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The petitioner outlines alleged gaps in collective bargaining rights for Spain’s National Police and potential EU Charter breaches, the Commission sets out its legal assessment and limited competences, and MEPs react before the Chair confirms the petition remains open with additional follow‑up including an EMPL opinion and written replies.
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Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Chair opens the item on the upcoming Irish Council Presidency and Minister Chambers presents Ireland’s cohesion‑policy priorities, focusing on competitiveness, green and digital transitions, simplification and the long‑term role and funding of cohesion policy.
The committee examines the Maltese petition challenging the exclusion of insulin‑treated diabetics from Class 1 pilot medical certificates, hears the Commission and EASA on the planned revision of aviation medical rules, and agrees to keep the petition open pending a detailed written reply.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
The Minister closes by thanking the committee, underlining Parliament’s democratic mandate, pledging close interinstitutional cooperation throughout the Irish Presidency, and reiterating that EU values underpin its employment and social policy agenda.
Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
Commissioner Kos presents the Democracy Shield, resilience tools and their extension to candidate countries, followed by MEPs’ questions and his clarifications on public support for enlargement, civil society funding and accession conditionality, including the Serbia and Hungary–Ukraine minority rights files.
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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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