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Commission and EIB outline the implementation focus needed to enhance EU financial sector competitiveness and describe complementary financial instruments, including securitisation support, digital euro cooperation and equity initiatives targeting tech and defence sectors.
Round of Member State interventions setting out national reservations and conditions on ESMA governance, funding and CASP coverage, followed by confirmation of a political agreement on the MISP general approach and explanation of the procedural next steps toward formal adoption.
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Simon Harris and 3 others
Introduction of the Council compromise on the Market Integration and Supervision Package, the Commission’s objections on reduced ESMA direct supervision and funding design, and subsequent backing from key Member States and the ECB framing the deal as a step for Capital Markets Union despite governance and DLT‑threshold concerns.
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Formal opening of the public Council session, practical arrangements for broadcasting, and qualified‑majority adoption of the A items, including Omnibus 5 defence‑readiness acts and the ETS Market Stability Reserve amendment.
Questions focus on the timetable and scope of the ECB Executive Board succession and on the Eurogroup’s divided debate over national escape clause use, with the presidency rejecting speculation on broader appointments while stressing the balance between protecting vulnerable citizens and preserving fiscal stability and rule credibility.
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Journalists question the Eurogroup president and Commissioner Dombrovskis on extra fiscal flexibility requested by Italy and Greece and on bond market tensions, prompting clarifications on existing tools, market differentiation, and expectations for credible medium‑term fiscal plans, including France’s commitments.
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Commissioner Dombrovskis and the ESM Managing Director assess the impact of the renewed energy shock, explain the use and limits of fiscal framework flexibilities, and set out principles for improving spending quality, tax collection, investment protection and defence-related outlays within the new EU fiscal rules.
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The Eurogroup president opens the press conference, outlines macroeconomic and energy challenges, discusses principles for targeted support and fiscal sustainability, reviews progress on the Capital Markets Union, and details the procedure and timetable for appointing a new ECB Executive Board member.
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Roberts Zīle and 20 others
The afternoon resumes with the Commission’s position on a prospective UN convention on older persons’ rights, political groups’ detailed expectations on its scope and content and related EU policies, and the Commission’s closure, followed by explanations of votes on earlier resolutions and the formal announcement of the next plenary dates and end of the session.
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Parliament holds an extensive roll‑call and show‑of‑hands voting block on multiple resolutions and objections across health, foreign policy, trade and anti‑corruption, followed by points of order contesting procedural decisions, as well as political tributes and reactions to external events, before suspension until the afternoon sitting.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Group speakers from S&D, ECR and Renew outline their positions on better regulation, criticising overregulation, weak impact assessments, urgency derogations and insufficient single market harmonisation while supporting stronger evidence-based lawmaking, SME-first rules and safeguards for small businesses, before Warborn and the Chair close the file with broad convergence noted and an amendment deadline set.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Warborn presents the draft report on better lawmaking, endorsing the Commission’s regulatory deep cleaning initiative while criticising the gap between stated and actual cost-reduction ambitions, and calls for a shift to one-in-two-out, an end to gold-plating and targeted compensation for SME reporting burdens within a stronger impact assessment and subsidiarity framework.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The Chair organises and announces the voting results on amendments to the Statute for Members of the European Parliament regarding proxy voting, then closes this item and introduces the next agenda point on EU regulatory fitness, subsidiarity and proportionality for 2025–2026, designating Warborn as rapporteur.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The committee moves from the Annual Report to the 2025 discharge, with Serafin presenting the integrated reporting package and performance data, followed by exchanges on RAL levels, recovery processes and tracking RRF impacts, further questions on Slovakia, unused funds, GNI reporting, RRF transparency and EPPO accession, and the Commission’s internal auditor reporting on overall system adequacy, problems in the EIC Accelerator and remaining internal control recommendations before the Chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The Chair sets amendment deadlines for CSA 2 and NIS2, then rapporteurs report on the state of play in the grid‑package permitting directive and TEN‑E trilogues regarding overriding public interest, permitting digitalisation, environmental safeguards and EU‑level energy infrastructure planning, before announcing the next ITRE meeting and closing the sitting.
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Raffaele Fitto and 53 others
Commissioner Fitto outlines new territorial strategies and related regulatory tools, followed by group speakers on funding, POSEI, ETS/FuelEU adaptations and cohesion policy, catch‑the‑eye interventions on concrete insularity challenges, and Commission conclusions on implementation through partnership plans and the MFF framework, before the sitting is suspended for votes.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Ruissen and Hohlmeier question high cohesion error rates, low absorption and loss of additionality through RRF retrofitting, while Heinäluoma probes the effectiveness of ECA and discharge recommendations; the ECA outlines deadline‑driven spending risks, substitution effects in RRF plans, implementation statistics for recommendations, and Serafin provides an extended defence of the Commission’s methodologies, enforcement on paying agencies, legal basis for milestone revisions and approach to EU borrowing and debt service.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Rapporteur and shadows discuss the NIS2 simplification proposal focusing on ‘report once’ logic, scope adjustments, ransomware reporting, post‑quantum transition timelines, and the relationship to mandatory certification, with the Commission clarifying that this is a focused correction to support implementation and enforcement while keeping NIS2 and CSA 2 coherent.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The Commission details the AI‑driven threat landscape and de‑risking of critical supply chains, explains the intended country‑based risk framework and ENISA’s expanded role in AI and standards for the CRA, and Gregorová closes by stressing alignment with existing law, defending mandatory certification, and flagging scope issues (including critical infrastructure components) for trilogue mandate building.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Political groups (EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew) and the IMCO rapporteur set out positions on strengthening ENISA, integrating AI, handling ‘kill‑switch’ and country‑risk issues, evidentiary standards for high‑risk vendor listings, the balance between voluntary and mandatory certification, and the burden on operators and SMEs.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The acting Chair introduces the CSA 2 regulation on ENISA, EU certification and ICT supply chains, and rapporteur Gregorová outlines her draft on high‑risk supplier listing, critical equipment coverage, phased network phase‑outs, mandatory EU‑level certification, a single reporting entry point, an EU cybersecurity reserve and resourcing conditions for ENISA.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
MEPs Grapini, Sanchez, Erixon and Sjöstedt press the ECA on persistent errors, identification of weak member‑state authorities, legality and procurement shortcomings, rapid growth in EU borrowing and risks to the euro, while the ECA clarifies sample‑based error rates, limits on naming countries, transmission of suspected fraud to EPPO/OLAF, and the audit challenges and debt risks of RRF‑style, performance‑based frameworks; the Chair and Chinnici then focus on unequal treatment in RRF milestone changes and the need to spread best practices from stronger national control systems such as Italy’s.
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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
The Chair opens the extraordinary ITRE meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, records a cleared conflict-of-interest on Chips Act 2.0, and then Ehler and Chahim confront the Commission over the Parliament–Commission dispute on creating and funding a Critical Raw Materials center, culminating in a compromise vote on the file.
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Raffaele Fitto and 31 others
Commissioner Fitto presents the Commission’s line on Türkiye, Greece, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, followed by political groups’ positions on sanctions, security guarantees and dialogue, a hate‑speech point of order, further interventions on Turkey’s regional strategy and EU leverage, and the Commission’s closing remarks linking de‑escalation and the Cyprus settlement to any deepening of EU–Turkey relations.
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The Chair opens the plenary, announces Council first‑reading positions and corresponding deadlines, then sets the agenda by introducing the first debate on Turkish provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Commissioner Serafin reacts to the audit opinions and error levels, defending the Commission’s corrective tools, while the rapporteur and MEPs question the reliability of RRF controls, the gap between ECA and Commission error estimates, SUMMA implementation and lessons for future performance‑based instruments, with the ECA explaining its methodologies and assurance concerns.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The ECA details high error rates in traditional MFF spending, structural weaknesses in CAP and cohesion controls, issues in the milestone‑based RRF model including double funding and weak national systems, and flags major risks linked to the next MFF’s borrowing, debt service and insufficient performance framework.
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Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
The Chair opens the extraordinary CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the 2025 Annual Report, after which ECA President Murphy presents the Court’s mandate, methods and confirmation of clean accounts and revenue for the EU budget.
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Parliament, Commission and Council discuss severe human‑rights violations and democratic backsliding in Iran, Georgia and Azerbaijan, calling for targeted sanctions, stronger conditionality in EU partnerships and candidacy prospects, and calibrated engagement that supports civil society while defending EU values.
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Council, Commission and MEPs assess how to implement and finance the Nature Restoration Regulation, debating flexibility for national plans, impacts on agriculture and forestry, member‑state resistance, and the balance between short‑term costs and long‑term economic and climate resilience benefits.
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Plenary Session
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 Development Ordinary meeting HEARING
Committee on Economic and Monetary 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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