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Shadow rapporteur and Commission justify the new tasks, staffing levels and fee–budget balance, explain handling of EMA building costs and future updates to financial statements, and the Chair sets amendment and vote deadlines and adjourns the meeting.
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Political group representatives express support or opposition to reinforcing EMA and Commission staffing, debate the limits of redeployments, scrutinise the proposed fee structure and long‑term building costs, and raise subsidiarity and national sovereignty concerns about shifting costs to taxpayers and centralising databases.
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The standing rapporteur and committee shadows assess the budgetary impact of strengthening the European Medicines Agency under the MDR/IVDR revision, addressing new posts, redeployments and the balance between EU budget and fees, with broad support for better patient access but sharp criticism from PfE on increased taxpayer funding, Eudamed centralisation and use of delegated acts; members then exchange on why additional EMA posts are needed in a reform presented as simplification and on how stronger EU‑level scientific support can both speed approvals and preserve national competences.
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The Chair closes the EGF cases and opens the EMA/medical devices and IVDR file, while the rapporteur presents the budgetary impact, staffing needs, and fee–EU budget balance for the proposed mandate revision.
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Members debate three European Globalisation Adjustment Fund cases, with Furet and Geisel criticising EU policies they see as destroying jobs, questioning Belgium’s high number of applications, the eligibility of the Cora retail case and the share of funds going directly to workers versus services, while the Commission defends the regulatory basis, explains Belgian over‑representation and details the mandatory split between cash allowances and active labour measures before the Chair closes the files and announces amendment and vote deadlines.
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Rapporteurs and shadows present the Finnish Valmet Automotive, Spanish Galicia automotive and Belgian Cora retail restructuring EGF applications, detailing worker numbers, EU co‑financing levels, planned up‑/reskilling and reintegration measures, and political group views on the EGF’s complementary role, labour‑market implications and amendment and vote timetable.
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The committee assesses three EGF applications for redundancies at Valmet Automotive (Finland), in Galicia’s automotive sector (Spain) and in Cora retail stores (Belgium), with rapporteurs and groups broadly supportive but stressing EGF’s limits versus national labour policies, while critical voices link job losses to EU policies and question Belgian over‑representation; Commission services justify eligibility criteria, clarify the effects of online retail and explain the spending split between direct allowances and active labour market measures.
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Members examine two early warning files: the EEAS New Delhi delegation lease expiry and potential €750,000 threshold crossing, and ECHA’s ‘Building 2030’ project in Helsinki linked to evolving tasks, hybrid work and future premises needs, with concerns about delayed preparation and a request to revisit once more concrete data are available.
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The Chair conducts a brief voting session on the Global Europe regulation, a 2026 budget transfer and the Pole Star building, then moves to early information files on the Brussels B5/2026 project, the New Delhi EEAS delegation lease renewal and the ECHA Helsinki premises ‘Building 2030’ planning, outlining timelines, budgetary thresholds and alignment with the Commission’s property strategy.
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Members examine the EESC’s internal transfers to bolster communication, social media and external staff, with MEPs contesting the added‑value of such spending, before turning to the Commission’s long‑term usufruct arrangement for the Pole Star building, where the rapporteur and several MEPs query delays, density, financial terms and use of buffer space, and the OIB defends the project’s operational synergies and loan‑financed fit‑out under constrained annual appropriations.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
After the Chair hands over to EPRS, its expert presents research on AI’s gendered opportunities and risks, including documented bias in AI systems, deepfakes, online violence, economic discrimination, health data gaps and privacy concerns around femtech. Members then react with questions and comments on rural women’s access and protection, AI’s implications for democracy and Parliament’s work, and the need to address gender‑based online and political violence within broader institutional debates on AI governance.
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The Chair reorders the agenda to introduce transfer DEC 11/2026, and the Commission details the proposed redeployment from macro‑financial assistance grants to finance the Connectivity for Peace package in the South Caucasus and urgent Chernobyl repairs, followed by MEPs’ questions on the sharp budget increase, geopolitical rationale and financing structure, and the Commission’s justifications on EBRD‑led co‑funding and use of unused MFA appropriations.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Gender Mainstreaming Network opens its meeting with agenda and minutes adoption and announces the 7th European Gender Equality Week in November 2026, inviting committees and delegations to organise gender‑equality‑related events across policy areas.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Gender Mainstreaming Network meeting is opened with procedural points, announcements on European Gender Equality Week and the annual gender mainstreaming report, and the introduction of a thematic exchange on gender equality and artificial intelligence. The Commission’s AI Office then outlines women’s underrepresentation in AI and ICT, details EU skills and education initiatives to increase women’s participation, and explains how the AI Act aims to prevent discriminatory AI outcomes while calling for coordinated action across stakeholders to close the gender gap in AI.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Political groups respond to the draft CSW71 report, with S&D backing the substance but questioning rapporteur neutrality, Patriots for Europe attacking what they see as an ideological gender agenda and costs, and Renew, Greens and The Left pushing for strong language on SRHR, climate, violence, participation and funding for women’s organisations. ESN and feminist MEPs clash over motherhood, STEM quotas and the scope of gender equality policies, before the rapporteur and Chair close by defending the process, clarifying budget figures and calling for a strong, common EU line towards the Council and at CSW.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Political groups present contrasting views on the draft CSW71 report, with S&D, Renew, Greens and The Left seeking ambitious language on poverty, climate, SRHR and violence, while conservative members criticise the gender agenda and emphasise motherhood; the rapporteur and chair close by defending the process and calling for a unified Parliament line for New York.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The chair introduces the draft report on EU priorities for the 71st UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the rapporteur outlines the strategic focus on women’s economic autonomy, decent work, STEM skills and green/digital transitions, stressing implementation tools, data and the EU’s role in shaping a credible common position.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair opens agenda item 5 on EU priorities for the 71st UN Commission on the Status of Women and gives the floor to rapporteur Giusi Princi, who sets out Parliament’s proposed priorities on women’s economic independence, social protection, digital and green transitions, and gender‑responsive climate and disaster policies. She stresses data, monitoring and strong involvement of Parliament and civil society in shaping a unified EU position for CSW71 in New York.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The FEMM committee opens its meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and proceeds through all voting blocks on the gender‑equality‑focused opinion on boosting skills and vocational education and training, including compromises, individual amendments and the final roll‑call vote.
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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 Security and Defence 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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