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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs press the EEAS and expert witness on using GSP+ leverage, concrete benchmarks on blasphemy, forced conversions, women’s and minority rights, counter-terrorism and narcotics cooperation, and the impact of possible GSP+ suspension, while raising emblematic cases, political prisoners and human rights defenders.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs from several groups question the Commission on InvestEU’s transparency, ex‑post additionality, risk assumptions, conditionality, climate focus, SME and startup financing, geographic scope, losses and provisioning, while Ms Berger and Mr Marin explain KPIs, evaluation timing, conservative risk methodology and plans to adapt InvestEU within the future European Competitiveness Fund before the chair closes the item.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
Coordinators from main groups outline initial positions on passenger focus, competition, platforms, investment and liability, and the Commission responds by justifying the package on grounds of market failure, clarifying the treatment of platforms under existing EU law and confirming liability rules for disrupted journeys.
Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Commission presents the three proposals on multimodal booking, rail ticketing and single‑ticket passenger rights, explaining scope, data‑sharing and platform obligations, FRAND conditions, booking horizons and the allocation of liability and rights for passengers travelling on single tickets.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The chair opens the joint BUDG‑ECON item and Ms Berger, as incoming InvestEU steering board chair, presents InvestEU’s mandate, governance model, implementing partners, financial products, Omnibus II reinforcement, Member State compartments and performance metrics, positioning a reinforced InvestEU as a central de‑risking tool within a future European Competitiveness Fund.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The committee receives a state of play on trilogue negotiations and technical work on the proposed military mobility regulation, then the Chair briefly gathers group reactions before moving SEDE into an in‑camera session on CARD findings and 2024 defence data.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs, the Commission, Europol, FRA and NGOs engage in a structured Q&A on using existing EU security and radicalisation tools, preventive versus punitive approaches, child recruitment by organised crime, age of criminal responsibility and forthcoming EU legislative and operational initiatives.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair opens the item on the passenger package and the Commission sets out the wider geopolitical, economic and climate context underpinning the need for resilient, passenger‑centred EU transport systems.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The chair and EEAS frame the Pakistan item within EU–Pakistan dialogue, GSP+ conditionality and the Strategic Engagement Plan, with an external expert detailing technology-driven repression, media and blasphemy abuses, followed by EEAS assessment of limited progress and persistent structural violations.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair and rapporteur Sargiacomo launch the CMO reform debate on market crisis tools, higher intervention prices, strategic stocks and extended sectoral programmes, with shadows and Members contesting early‑warning systems, minimum price concepts, origin labelling and meat names, while DG AGRI defends exceptional, flexible crisis instruments and a simplified, EU‑oriented school scheme before Sargiacomo’s wrap‑up on stocks, sectoral envelopes and budget constraints.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
MEPs question the experts on mortality, inequalities, sector priorities, agriculture and regulatory ambition; experts reply on integrating health authorities, strengthening agricultural and heating rules, and targeting vulnerable groups, before final remarks on farming efforts and formal closure of the session.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
New DG Trade Director‑General Ditte Jørgensen presents DG Trade’s strategic priorities on FTAs, WTO reform, trade defence, economic security, China and the US, followed by extensive group interventions on the Industrial Accelerator Act, agriculture, Mercosur, Ukraine, Western Sahara, climate and labour clauses, to which she responds on implementation, country ‘equivalence’, China rebalancing, CETA, India FTA, Russia sanctions and the link between trade, climate and child labour tools.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
DG AGRI backs targeting support via a robust active farmer definition, stronger risk management and youth schemes, and mandatory environmental priorities, while Lins closes by weighing degressivity versus redistributive payments, signalling openness on coupled support, defending existing large structures in some regions, and calling for an EU‑wide agri‑environment budget linked to the MFF outcome.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Further questions address how to engage non‑state armed groups and private military companies without legitimising them, trust‑building with actors such as M23 and Sahel jihadist groups, mine bans and protection commitments in South Sudan, limits of the mandate in Cyprus, the scope of work on Ukraine and Russia, and the Chair’s formal closing of the Geneva Call exchange.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Chairs introduce the Policy Department study on PM2.5 as a public health priority, and invited experts present scientific evidence on health impacts, trends, regulatory drivers, major remaining emission gaps and recommended upgrades to EU air‑quality and sectoral policies.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Members question Geneva Call on AI and drone impacts on warfare, funding independence, work in Ukraine, the regional fallout from Gaza, enforcement of IHL and accountability, and current operations in Syria including Kurdish integration, detention camps and rule‑of‑law support.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
DG TRADE briefs members on the multiple tracks of WTO reform, including foundational rules, decision‑making, SOEs and development, as well as plurilateral initiatives on e‑commerce and investment facilitation, followed by MEP questions on alliances, Global South positions, US tariffs and climate integration, and Commission replies on partners, process and the Industrial Accelerator Act.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair reopens the LIBE Committee, adopts the agenda and introduces the item on the EU strategy against criminal exploitation of minors, followed by initial institutional and expert framing of youth recruitment, online risks and gaps in child‑protection safeguards.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
SEDE launches the exchange of views with Geneva Call, as its leadership presents the organisation’s mandate, strategic analysis of evolving conflicts, operational engagement with armed groups, illustrative field cases, and recommendations for how EU institutions should integrate these insights into security, CSDP and high‑tech warfare policies.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Shadow rapporteurs and Members set out group lines on preserving a strong, autonomous CAP budget, the scale of environmental earmarking, social and labour conditionality, capping and redistributive payments, support for small farms and generational renewal, treatment of large historical holdings, and sector‑specific tools such as coupled aid and crisis schemes.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair opens the SEDE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and leads the committee through the rapporteur’s priorities and voting on amendments for SEDE’s 2027 EU budget opinion, culminating in adoption of the opinion letter by roll‑call vote.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
HRDN representatives and MEPs debate the shift from a rights-based to interest-driven EU external policy, risks linked to Global Gateway, the future EU Human Rights Action Plan, funding under the MFF and Global Europe, digital and civic space, and the EU’s credibility and alliances in defending the ICC and global human rights.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Co‑rapporteurs and shadows present and debate amendments on organ processing and genetically modified microorganisms, contrasting innovation goals with strong safeguards on ethics, non‑commercial organ use, risk‑based authorisation, data protection, delegated powers and traceability, followed by Commission defence of the proposals and procedural next steps.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The Chair reopens the INTA committee, adopts the agenda and minutes, and then holds a structured exchange with the Commission and political groups on the planned Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement with Côte d’Ivoire, focusing on cocoa, sustainability, SME access, dispute settlement, civil‑society involvement and a possible parallel track with Ghana.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Chair Satouri reopens the DROI subcommittee, adopts the agenda and minutes, explains the postponement of the Afghanistan item, and frames the overall political and human rights context for the sitting.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair and rapporteur Lins formally open the CAP reform item, outline the legislative calendar and massive volume of amendments, and frame core disputes on capping, degressivity, social conditionality, green architecture, and the active farmer definition, with the Committee of the Regions insisting on a stronger regional role and more ambitious climate adaptation tools.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Chairs open the joint SANT–ENVI meeting, resolve technical and procedural issues, adopt the agenda and minutes, and outline the joint procedure for handling the biotech directives within the European Biotech Act framework.
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The Chair reiterates the strategic importance of the CMO and indicates that reflection on potential reforms will continue before formally closing the Fisheries Committee meeting.
MEPs call for reinforced origin labelling, traceability and market protection against imports not meeting EU standards, including in restaurants and processed products, address competition issues, fraud and producer structures, while the Chair underlines the need for ambitious yet simple EU labelling and the Commission outlines possible but not yet decided CMO revisions, linked to digital traceability, proportionality and Article 41 sustainability agreements.
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The Chair opens the agenda point on the fisheries and aquaculture CMO, and the Commission explains current CMO rules on consumer information, origin labelling and traceability, as well as evaluation findings and gaps, particularly regarding prepared/preserved products and the usefulness of existing catch-area information.
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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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