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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
The Chair underlines that resilience relies on trust, education and regulation, thanks the Norwegian minister and announces the transition to a closed in‑camera agenda item.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The Court of Auditors presents its special report on RRF‑financed energy‑efficiency investments in residential buildings, detailing audit scope, main findings on renovation depth, reform design, result‑orientation, cost‑effectiveness and its recommendations to the Commission and Member States.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
Commission, Taxpayers Association of Europe and Bruegel experts present the 2026 Taxation Trends findings, recent national tax reforms, EU tax initiatives and compliance drivers, contrasting views on labour and capital taxation, and the shift from a purely anti‑avoidance agenda towards competitiveness. They debate legal certainty, simplicity, data protection, and the risks that an EU Tax Omnibus could weaken key anti‑avoidance tools while the EU seeks a growth‑friendly yet fair tax framework.
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Committee on Tax Matters (FISC)
The Chair opens the FISC meeting, adopts the agenda and practical arrangements, then details recent coordinators’ decisions on past and future missions, new own‑initiative tax files, analytical studies and the upcoming interparliamentary meeting, before introducing the public hearing speakers. This sets the institutional and work‑programme context for subsequent debates on EU tax trends and VAT policy files.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
MEPs ask about differentiating domestic and foreign manipulation, auditing platforms, engagement‑based ranking and the role of libraries, schools and independent centres; Norway responds on its trust‑based culture, DSA uptake, safeguards for arm’s‑length governance and the central role of libraries and reading strategies in media literacy.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Rapporteur René Repasi and shadows set out competing visions for the EU Inc statute on workers’ rights, scope, corporate mobility, stock options and preventive controls, followed by additional MEP concerns and Commission clarifications, before the rapporteur closes by arguing for a high‑standard, anti‑arbitrage EU company label with robust labour and anti‑abuse safeguards.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Rapporteur and political groups set out their positions on the 2024 discharge to Council and European Council, focusing on Council’s non‑cooperation, accountability, unanimity, transparency and possible legal or procedural ways out of the long‑standing deadlock.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Chair Schwab opens the CONT meeting, confirms interpretation and webstreaming, and formally adopts the agenda, minutes and coordinators’ decisions.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The committee adopts its opinion on an EU strategy for international justice, approves the ITRE report on the European Biotech Act, confirms the JURI rapporteur’s mandate on the 2027 EU budget and Court of Justice appropriations, and closes with a unanimous vote on a legal‑basis file under Rule 41.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
The Chair introduces Norway’s minister and questions on EU law and education, while the minister presents Norway’s 2025–2030 strategy, its constitutional basis for safeguarding public discourse, five priority areas, and Norway’s support for EU regulatory frameworks and European democratic cooperation.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
The Co‑Chair closes the first hearing block by defining disinformation as a permanent instrument of war, particularly for Russia, and calls for EU‑level capabilities, proactive narrative projection, major investment in disruptive technologies and a common political protocol across member states.
Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
MEPs question experts on neural warfare safeguards, EU offensive capabilities, data poisoning, limits of open societies, paid covert influence, education, legal bases for disruption and infrastructure vulnerabilities, with replies stressing preemption, platform duties, mapping adversary networks and embedding digital literacy in education systems.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
MEPs raise issues on EU Inc and European Business Wallets, AI gaps and SME burdens, personal and political use of AI tools, detailed concerns on the CADA file, the Chips Act 2.0 and semiconductor resilience, digitalisation of justice systems and access‑to‑justice risks, and regulatory‑burden reduction, with the Minister closing by updating on CADA progress, deferring sector‑specific questions to other ministers, and setting an end‑year timeline for advancing EU Inc as a 28th regime.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
NATO StratCom and MIT experts outline the geopolitical AI power race, structural EU vulnerabilities, the shift to machine‑layer manipulation and neurodata risks, recent AI‑enabled influence operations, and propose regulatory and operational responses including a high‑risk AI influence category and offensive disruption of hostile networks.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
MEPs from several groups question the Irish Presidency on AI industrial strategy, copyright circumvention by major AI firms, deregulation and competitiveness, the handling of AI companies headquartered in Ireland, the CADA Act’s ambition and timeline, data‑centre sustainability and enforcement capacity, followed by the Minister’s initial response outlining Ireland’s AI governance, forthcoming AI summit and approach to copyright review within the AI Act framework.
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Committee on European Democracy Shield (special committee) (EUDS)
The Chair and Co‑Chair open the joint hearing, adopt the agenda, set out the committee’s mandate on the future information environment, and frame AI‑driven manipulation as part of a broader hybrid threat against European democracy.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Minister Richmond outlines the Irish presidency’s overarching motto and competitiveness agenda, details the EU Inc corporate framework proposal and its digital single market benefits, explains the state of play and timeline for Council work and trilogues, and sets out priorities on copyright, AI and the supplementary protection certificates reform package.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The chair opens the JURI meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports coordinators’ decisions on key files and court cases, and formally introduces Irish Minister Neale Richmond to present the Irish Council presidency’s priorities to the committee.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair and an MEP report on the AGRI delegation visit to the Azores, underline specific insularity challenges and the role of POSEI, and then confirm the next meeting date and close the session.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair and EESC rapporteur present the integrated wildfire risk management approach prioritising structural prevention and a possible dedicated fund, while MEPs and DG AGRI debate forestry models, grazing, prescribed burning, use of CAP and rescEU, and whether to create a separate EU wildfire fund or rely on existing instruments and partnership plans.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair formally ends the SME study item and opens work on the INI report ‘From prototypes to capabilities’, as rapporteur Stakīs presents the amendment calendar and key priorities to secure demand, accelerate payments, harmonise testing and certification, and support production scaling for new defence market entrants.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
DG AGRI presents mid‑term CAP performance on income support, risk‑management tools, eco‑schemes, rural development and new indicators, followed by MEPs questioning redistribution, low insurance uptake, administrative burden, social conditionality and gender aspects, with the Commission explaining data lags, plan changes and available flexibility for current crises.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The Chair and Commission outline the state of play in EU–UAE FTA negotiations (mandate, objectives, outstanding issues on TSD, energy pricing, subsidies, SOEs, sanctions circumvention and UAE sovereignty), followed by MEPs’ detailed scrutiny on human rights, labour standards, regional security role and competitiveness impacts, and the Commission’s responses on leverage limits and staying within the mandate to keep the deal feasible.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
MEPs and the expert examine how risk‑averse procurement cultures, fragmented standards and security rules, and timid engagement with Ukrainian innovation impede SME entry and EU defence industrial competitiveness, with calls for stronger political backing for risk‑taking and deeper EU‑Ukraine technology cooperation.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Coordinators question Fiott on leveraging SMEs, avoiding US‑style consolidation, tackling the two ‘valleys of death’, and funding testing and certification infrastructure, with Fiott stressing mindset barriers, fragmented national procurement and the need for fresh, better‑integrated EU funding.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Fiott outlines how to streamline EU defence instruments under the next MFF, improve SME access to funding and testing, and close the gap from early innovation to operational procurement by better combining tools such as Agile and HEDI.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
Professor Fiott analyses how existing EU instruments (EDF, EDIP, ASAP, FAST, EDIS) interact with SME access barriers and valleys of death, then uses Ukraine’s wartime procurement model to illustrate how streamlined procedures and ‘good enough’ capabilities can accelerate deployment in Europe.
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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)
The Chair mandates the study for SEDE, then Professor Fiott sets out the strategic role of defence SMEs in the EU DTIB, using lessons from Ukraine to frame their innovation potential and the core financial, regulatory and political obstacles they face.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Coordinators and MEPs highlight strategic, social and territorial roles of livestock, raise concerns on animal health, imports and Brazilian meat bans, welfare legislation, climate and biogas, and crisis support, while the Commission stresses maintaining a viable, regionally balanced sector using CAP, financial instruments and private‑chain initiatives.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The Chair and Commission present the mandate and state of play of EU–Philippines FTA negotiations, followed by MEPs’ scrutiny on timelines, TSD, procurement and human rights, and detailed Commission replies on GSP+ graduation, monitoring, TSD enforcement, procurement, corruption, digital trade and links with the Industrial Accelerator Act and reciprocity debate.
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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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