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Committee on Development (DEVE)
MEPs Bullmann and Jongen and Chair Andrews question the experts on what concrete steps the EU should take on debt reduction and structural reform, illicit financial flows, project viability and taxpayer risks, Chinese lending and its treatment in restructurings, debt‑for‑nature swaps, and the impact of EU tariffs on African public finances.
Committee on Public Health (SANT)
The Chair opens the SANT meeting on childhood cancer, President Metsola provides the political framing and EU commitments, and survivor and parent‑economist testimonies expose treatment inequalities, market failures and the case for an EU‑level pediatric oncology pathway.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs question Whelan on how the draft merger guidelines and existing law apply in practice to resilience, efficiencies, ‘killer acquisitions’, telecom consolidation and post‑trade infrastructure, as well as on state aid volumes, innovation support and crisis frameworks. The exchanges also cover coordination with financial and digital rules (DMA, AI, data access), national competition authorities’ alignment, resource constraints and lessons from past digital mergers, clarifying DG COMP’s enforcement approach and boundaries of future reform.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
AFRODAD outlines Africa’s rising and increasingly commercial public debt, domestic debt vulnerabilities and the Zambia case, criticises the limited relief and social impacts of current restructuring tools including the G20 Common Framework, and calls for EU support to a binding UN‑level sovereign debt mechanism following the Seville process.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Four experts from CER, Volkswagen, CLEPA and IndustriAll present macroeconomic, industry, supplier and trade union perspectives on the IAA, detailing proposals on local-content thresholds, geographic scope, FDI screening, fleet rules, batteries, competitiveness and social and employment conditionalities.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The chair opens the ECON meeting, presents DG Competition’s new Director‑General and sets the context around revised merger guidelines, state aid reform, digital and AI, followed by Whelan’s detailed outline of the four‑pillar merger framework and parallel state aid modernisation work. This segment frames the legal basis, policy priorities and adoption timetable that structure the subsequent Q&A with MEPs.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The Chair frames the agenda item around shifting from grants to loans and SDG‑related debt sustainability, then UNCTAD presents data on global debt ratios, worsening net transfers, higher borrowing costs for developing countries and policy recommendations on concessional finance, liquidity tools and borrower coordination.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Chairs open the joint INTA–ITRE–IMCO hearing, clarify agenda, procedures and interpretation, and frame the Industrial Accelerator Act’s strategic trade and industrial context and the format of the first expert panel.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
Satouri closes by linking human rights to economic development, underlining the need for credible, well-financed Global Europe instruments to support poverty eradication and human rights in Africa.
Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Members question the Commission on legal bases, information tools and sustainable EU funding as the Commission explains the interaction between the directive and social security coordination, limits on prior authorisation, digital simplification and ERN support, before the rapporteur issues a political funding call and the Chair sets amendment deadlines and closes the sitting.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
De Schutter answers MEPs on indicators, debt-for-social-protection swaps and country-led strategies, while DG INTPA and EEAS set out the EU’s development, Global Gateway and human-rights-based external action approaches to poverty eradication.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi outlines Africa’s ‘growth with depth’ needs, presents ACET’s Transformation Index, and calls for EU–Africa relations that support regional production, the AfCFTA, long-term transformation finance, and mutually agreed priorities.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Rapporteur Georgiou presents draft report priorities on updating the directive, tackling prohibitive out-of-pocket costs and securing higher EU funding, while political groups set out their positions on access, ERNs, digital health alignment, equity and patient protection against unsafe treatments abroad.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Following the formal launch of the EBA Executive Director appointment procedure and Thomas Tschechner’s presentation of priorities, MEPs press him on completing the single market and Banking Union (including EDIS), implementing DORA, ensuring proportionality and protection for host countries, reducing reporting burdens for SNCIs, and safeguarding EU and global competitiveness, after which he reiterates his focus on streamlining work, risk‑based prioritisation and non‑deregulatory simplification ahead of the ECON and plenary votes.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
Following technical problems with the second expert, the chair opens an initial round of MEP questions focusing on multidimensional poverty metrics, corruption safeguards, health systems, ODA priorities, debt swaps, and the distributional impacts of EU-led growth models.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Political and expert debate on whether obstacles stem mainly from national implementation or the directive itself, treatment of upfront payments and prior authorisation, potential upgrading of the directive and strengthening of ERNs, and options for new EU-level funding or solidarity instruments linked to biotech and pharmaceutical contributions.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
Olivier De Schutter presents the UN ‘beyond GDP’ roadmap, explains why growth has failed to eradicate poverty, and proposes international economic reforms on debt, taxation, monetary arrangements and social protection to create policy space for developing countries.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
The Chair announces a dedicated technical briefing and Q&A on the three files, informs members of the next committee meeting and formally closes the session.
Committee on Development (DEVE)
Chairs Andrews and Satouri formally open the agenda item, frame the debate around moving beyond GDP towards a human-rights-based development model, and introduce the invited experts and their mandates.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The Chair formally closes the GAP III gender item while relaying the committee’s concern on removing targets, then reconvenes for item 8 in joint session with the Human Rights Subcommittee, where both Chairs frame the debate on economic growth, SDG 8 and poverty eradication as a question of development model and human rights obligations before giving the floor to invited experts.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Presentation of the European Added Value Assessment on cross-border healthcare, detailing the three‑pillar roadmap on patient access, ERNs, telemedicine and the European Health Data Space, followed by rapporteur and shadow rapporteur reactions on persistent barriers, legislative versus implementation gaps, and needs of vulnerable patient groups.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The expert answers MEPs by identifying major gender gaps in Global Gateway and innovative finance and by defending strong binding targets, including an 85‑20‑5 approach, after which the Commission reports on progress under GAP III, explains the rationale of the post‑2027 Global Europe proposal with fewer explicit targets but gender mainstreaming obligations, and pledges to sustain a high level of ambition across instruments.
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Committee on Public Health (SANT)
Formal opening of the committee meeting, adoption of the agenda, coordinators’ announcements and political framing of 2027 health budget priorities, followed by the detailed voting sequence on the 2027 EU general budget health lines and immediate procedural follow-up.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
MEPs question Comporti on the centralisation of supervision from NCAs to ESMA, treatment of smaller markets and SMEs, sequencing of new ESMA powers, competitiveness versus investor protection, and the risks and opportunities of digital finance, tokenisation and AI, with Comporti detailing phased transfers, stronger supervisory convergence, proportionality, simplification without deregulation, and ESMA’s role in managing technological change before closing with his commitments to Parliament.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The EU Asylum Agency presents asylum trends and Pact‑related tools, then answers MEPs’ questions on foresight, training, safe country concepts and externalisation models, leading into a political exchange on Member State practices, fundamental‑rights risks and the future of the right to asylum in the EU.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)
MEPs probe thresholds for compensation, data‑sharing obligations, economic impacts on operators and ticket prices, accessibility of information, long‑distance journeys and platform commissions, while the Commission provides detailed clarifications on the 12‑hour rule, sponsored results, B2B scope, enforcement tools, KPIs and links with broader EU rail policy and Council negotiations.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
Chair Tinagli opens the ECON meeting, outlines the legal basis and procedure for the ESMA Chair appointment, and introduces Council’s candidate Carlo Comporti, who details his supervisory background and sets out strategic priorities for ESMA on supervisory convergence, innovation, burden reduction, sustainable finance and ESMA’s role in Capital Markets Union and global standard‑setting.
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
The acting ECON Chair opens the meeting, sets out the legal basis and procedure for Parliament’s role in appointing ESMA’s Chair, and Carlo Comporti presents his professional background along with his strategic vision for ESMA focused on agile, data‑driven and convergent supervision aligned with the EU’s broader agenda.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The co‑rapporteur sets out Parliament’s political priorities for an ambitious GAP IV and the defence of binding gender targets, followed by MEPs’ questions and contrasting views on targets, implementation in specific countries and sectors, indicators of structural change, and the legitimacy and scope of EU‑funded gender equality projects, with additional concerns raised by the Chair on the signal sent by dropping targets and the classification of Global Gateway projects.
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
The Chair opens item 7 and invites the external expert to present key findings on the EU twin‑track approach to gender in development, detailed case studies on mainstreaming limits and structural impact, the role and scarcity of G2 targeted actions, and concrete recommendations for Parliament on binding targets, traceability and support to women’s organisations in the future Global Europe and GAP IV framework.
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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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