How to watch European Union parliamentary committees

Committee on Public Health (SANT)

Public hearing Panel 1: systemic health promotion and exposome

Adam Jarubas and 8 others

The Chair launches the public hearing on healthy lifestyles, with Milena Simeoni advocating systemic, underfunded lifestyle‑based health promotion and a new practitioner profile, and Robert Barouki detailing the exposome, lifestyle determinants and persistent health inequalities, after which MEPs and experts exchange on an EU lifestyle strategy, fiscal tools, new professional roles, structural determinants and training needs, including calls for large exposome cohorts and competence‑based approaches to behaviour‑change support.

In this chapter

1. Public hearing introduction: healthy lifestyles and prevention goalsAdam Jarubas
2. Simeoni: systemic health promotion and new profession proposalAdam Jarubas

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Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)

Meeting opening and shift to Public Procurement Act

Christian Doleschal PPE

Chair Doleschal handles agenda, procedural announcements and previous decisions before introducing the Commission’s proposal for a new, streamlined Public Procurement Act as the first substantive item.

In this chapter

1. Opening of IMCO meeting and chair’s announcementsChristian Doleschal
2. Commission: presentation of Public Procurement Act proposalChristian Doleschal

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

EUDA 2024 drugs report: key threats and responses

Javier Zarzalejos and 4 others

EUDA Director Nolan outlines the growing threats from synthetic opioids, cocaine and ketamine, stresses health–security linkages and the ‘one‑safety’ approach, and answers MEPs’ questions on UK cooperation, cryptocurrencies, agency coordination, precursors, harm reduction, wastewater analysis, resources, narco‑violence, trafficking routes, war‑related impacts and prevention before presenting the EUDA 2030 strategy direction.

In this chapter

1. EUDA Director Nolan: synthetic opioids threat and preparedness
2. EUDA report: cocaine markets and health–security nexus
3. EUDA report: ketamine, normalisation risks and one‑safety approach

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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)

Joint SEDE–AFCO: towards a Common European Defence Union

The joint SEDE–AFCO session on the institutional aspects of a Common European Defence Union is opened, with rapporteurs Herbst and De Meo outlining how to operationalise Article 42(7) TEU, avoid duplication with NATO, create an EU assistance ‘playbook’ and security council formats, reform decision‑making and governance, and ensure democratic oversight and preparedness for enlargement, including Ukraine’s future membership.

In this chapter

1. Opening of joint SEDE–AFCO meeting on Defence Union
2. Rapporteur Herbst (SEDE): operationalising Article 42.7
3. Rapporteur De Meo (AFCO): treaty tools, governance and enlargement

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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)

CULT committee: AI report on cultural sectors

Nela Riehl and 7 others

The committee opens its meeting, introduces the own‑initiative report on culture and creative sectors in the age of AI, and hears the rapporteur and political groups set out priorities on human‑centred creativity, copyright/acquis interaction, fair remuneration, transparency, and social and linguistic diversity. A catch‑the‑eye round and the Commission outline youth‑related concerns, the forthcoming AI strategy for cultural and creative sectors, and possible adjustments to the EU copyright framework in response to generative AI.

In this chapter

1. Opening of CULT meeting and AI agendaNela Riehl
2. Rapporteur Sousa Silva: goals of AI and culture reportHélder Sousa Silva
3. Political groups: positions on AI and cultural sectorsHannes Heide

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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)

JURI opinion on AFCO report and Court of Justice role

The Chair presents JURI’s draft opinion reshaping AFCO’s text on Article 19 TFEU and Court of Justice competences, followed by S&D and ECR shadows’ opposing positions on rule of law safeguards, reliance on non‑independent courts and perceived federalist tendencies, before closing with details on the amendment deadline and next procedural steps.

In this chapter

1. Chair’s draft JURI opinion on AFCO report and Court of Justice competences
2. S&D shadow Śmiszek: rule of law safeguards and judicial independence
3. ECR shadow critique and conclusion on amendments and next steps

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Committee on Public Health (SANT)

MEP–Commission Q&A: prevention tools, funding and vaccine safety

Bartosz Arłukowicz and 6 others

Committee coordinators and additional MEPs question Commissioner Várhelyi on concrete EU financing and instruments for CVD prevention, implementation gaps, vaccination guidance, health data and e‑cigarette regulation, prompting detailed replies on rebalancing health budgets towards prevention, use of EU funds, upcoming Council recommendations, EMA vaccine safety findings and future tobacco and vaccination proposals, followed by a political clash over vaccine narratives and disclosure of Safe Hearts and health funding before the Chair closes the item.

In this chapter

1. Coordinators’ questions: funding, prevention, myocarditis, risk factorsBartosz Arłukowicz
2. Additional questions: implementation gaps, vaccination guidance, e‑cigarettesAurelijus Veryga
3. Commission responses: prevention spending, EU tools, vaccine safetyOlivér Várhelyi
4. Political clash on vaccine narratives and Safe Hearts funding detailsBartosz Arłukowicz

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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)

Strategic food stocks: MEP positions and Commission reply

Daniel Buda and 12 others

Rapporteur and political group speakers set out divergent views on the scope, funding and market role of national food reserves, including links to inputs, sovereignty, speculation and CAP resources, after which DG AGRI clarifies that reserves are optional, non‑intervention stocks coordinated via EFSCM and separate from instruments on fertilisers and other inputs; the Chair concludes by stressing crisis‑only use, uneven national preparedness and the need for EU‑level coordination before closing the item.

In this chapter

1. Rapporteur Sargiacomo and EPP: scope, funding and subsidiarityDaniel Buda
2. Political group reactions: sovereignty, market impacts and inputsGilles Pennelle
3. Greens and others: speculation, data and stock design questionsThomas Waitz

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Committee on Budgets (BUDG)

Opening of sitting and EU solidarity funds

Lucia Yar and 5 others

The committee opens its sitting, adopts the agenda and examines the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for storm damage, followed by scrutiny of the Finnish EGF application for paper‑sector redundancies and related political assessments of EU support instruments. Deadlines for amendments are set and the first part of the sitting is suspended after confirming broad backing for both solidarity files.

In this chapter

1. Opening of sitting and EUSF storms mobilisationLucia Yar
2. EGF Finland paper sector: redundancies and political reactionsLucia Yar

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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)

Chips Act 2.0: Commission proposal and political reactions

Maravillas Abadía Jover and 2 others

The rapporteur and Commission set out the rationale, evaluation of Chips Act 1.0 and four priorities of the revised framework, followed by shadow rapporteurs’ questions on legal certainty, coherence, funding, strategic autonomy and investment targeting, and the rapporteur’s wrap‑up on competitiveness, financing and simplification.

In this chapter

1. Rapporteur Abadía Jover: priorities for Chips Act 2.0Maravillas Abadía Jover
2. Commission (DG CONNECT): evaluation of Chips Act 1 and new challenges
3. Commission: four priorities of Chips Act 2.0Ilhan Kyuchyuk

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Committee on Public Health (SANT)

Opening and Commission presentation: Safe Hearts Plan

Adam Jarubas and 1 other

The Chair opens the SANT committee meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, links the session to World Heart Day, and gives the floor to Commissioner Várhelyi to present the Safe Hearts Plan, its 2035 CVD mortality target, legislative links (tobacco, vaping, medical devices, biotech) and the new Council recommendation on cardiovascular health checks and EU Screening Week.

In this chapter

1. Opening, agenda, minutes, World Heart Day contextAdam Jarubas
2. Commission: Safe Hearts Plan and EU Screening WeekOlivér Várhelyi

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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)

Opening of AGRI meeting and food reserves mandate

The Chair opens the AGRI Committee meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, explains the new post‑2027 CMO emergency supply chapter, and gives the floor to DG AGRI to present the Commission’s proposal on national strategic food reserves within the EU preparedness and stockpiling framework.

In this chapter

1. Opening of AGRI meeting and agenda adoption
2. Introduction: strategic food stocks and CMO reform
3. Commission (DG AGRI): proposal on national food reserves

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Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN)

Opening and agenda: tourism and STR item

Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi and 7 others

The Chair opens the TRAN meeting, confirms the agenda and amendment deadlines, and introduces the joint IMCO–TRAN tourism debate on short-term rentals in the context of the forthcoming Affordable Housing Act.

In this chapter

1. Opening of TRAN meeting and agenda settingElissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi
2. Tourism panel I: sustainability impacts of short-term rentals
3. Tourism panel II: Barcelona STR industry vs housing regulation

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Committee on Petitions (PETI)

PETI workshop: minority rights in EU enlargement

Fredis Beleris and 1 other

Opening of the PETI meeting and a thematic workshop on improving monitoring of national minority rights in enlargement countries, with Commission, Council of Europe and academic/ECMI experts examining the 2020 enlargement methodology, complementarity with CoE instruments, and concrete ways for the European Parliament to mainstream and condition accession on robust minority protection, ending with exchanges on the ‘Copenhagen dilemma’ and internal EU standards.

In this chapter

1. Opening of PETI meeting and minority rights workshopFredis Beleris
2. Commission (DG NEAR): minorities in 2020 enlargement methodologyFredis Beleris
3. Council of Europe: Framework Convention monitoring and challengesFredis Beleris

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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)

Meeting opening, agenda and subsidiarity notice

Ilhan Kyuchyuk Renew

The Chair opens the JURI meeting, confirms agenda and minutes, announces decisions on immunity, rapporteurships, missions and hearings, and then formally presents the subsidiarity reasoned opinion under Rule 43 while introducing the upcoming Chips Act 2.0 item on the agenda.

In this chapter

1. Opening, agenda, minutes and chair’s announcementsIlhan Kyuchyuk
2. Subsidiarity item under Rule 43 and transition to Chips Act 2.0Ilhan Kyuchyuk

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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)

SACEUR Q&A: hybrid threats, Ukraine and European pillar

Riho Terras and 10 others

MEPs question SACEUR on responses to Russian sabotage, security guarantees for Ukraine, pro‑Russian parties and leaks, the southern flank and weaponised migration, lessons from Ukraine on drones and autonomous warfare, the shadow fleet, and proposals for a stronger European pillar in NATO, culminating in a lightning round on hybrid thresholds, Article 5, EU–NATO roles, Berlin Plus and the evolving US posture in Europe.

In this chapter

1. Q: Terras: Russian sabotage and Ukraine guaranteesRiho Terras
2. Q: Cremer: pro‑Russian parties and NATO‑EU agreementTobias Cremer
3. Q: Thionnet: southern flank, migration as weapon, European SACEURPierre-Romain Thionnet

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

Irish Presidency: migration, security and rule‑of‑law Q&A

Javier Zarzalejos and 7 others

MEPs from several groups question Minister O’Callaghan on the Migration Pact’s crisis response, returns and external centres, anti‑smuggling measures, Palestinian visas, Spanish regularisation, anti‑racism and online hate speech, leading to clarifications on returns effectiveness, legal competences, judicial independence and equal treatment of applicants before he closes the exchange.

In this chapter

1. EPP (Miguel Pedro): Ceuta crisis, Pact limits and crisis mechanismJavier Zarzalejos
2. Patriots/ENS (Zajączkowska-Hernik): firm returns, offshore centres, Ceuta and Polish burdenJavier Zarzalejos
3. Non‑attached (Yoncheva): anti‑smuggling package and external border gapsJavier Zarzalejos

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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

Opening and Irish Presidency JHA priorities

Javier Zarzalejos PPE

The Chair opens the LIBE meeting, adopts the agenda and rapporteur designations, then Minister O’Callaghan presents the Irish Council Presidency’s justice and home affairs priorities on migration and returns, Schengen and internal security, organised crime and child protection, CSAM regulation, digital justice and ECHR accession.

In this chapter

1. Opening of LIBE meeting and agenda adoptionJavier Zarzalejos
2. Irish Presidency: justice and home affairs priorities
3. Migration Pact implementation, funding and returns

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Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE)

SEDE opening: NATO–EU cooperation framework

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and 1 other

The Chair opens the SEDE meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the strategic exchange with NATO’s SACEUR and the US Ambassador, followed by De Meo’s questions on NATO–EU cooperation and Grinkewich’s detailed scene‑setting on the global threat picture, NATO 3.0 and the EU’s role in defence industrial ramp‑up and standard‑setting.

In this chapter

1. Opening of SEDE meeting and agenda adoptionMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
2. De Meo (NATO PA delegation): NATO‑EU cooperation questionsSalvatore De Meo
3. SACEUR: global threat picture, NATO 3.0 and EU role

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