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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair opens the final agenda item on extending the Commission’s rule‑of‑law reporting to candidate countries and outlines DROI’s planned opinion on aligning internal rule‑of‑law assessments with the enlargement package, introducing external experts to discuss monitoring mechanisms.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
In the closed coordinators’ meeting, the agenda is adopted and coordinators begin deciding on rapporteur appointments and procedural approaches for the committee’s upcoming annual discharge opinions.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
The committee opens with the 2025–2026 report on better regulation and regulatory fitness, as rapporteur Warborn and political groups set out priorities on impact assessments, gold‑plating, scrutiny of urgent procedures, SME tests, and the balance between competitiveness, social and environmental objectives.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Presentation of the draft report on better law‑making and reactions from political groups, addressing impact assessments for major proposals and amendments, limits on national gold‑plating, strengthening the Regulatory Scrutiny Board, tracking net regulatory burden and competitiveness, while balancing SME‑friendly simplification with social, sustainability and equality objectives and tighter rules on urgent procedures and delegated/implementing acts.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
MEPs Dupont, Sippel and others question reciprocity in member‑state bilaterals, EU capacity to meet US deadlines, cumulative data transfers to the US and effective control, while the Commission stresses selective, risk‑based queries, member‑state discretion to refuse transfers, and oversight across existing PNR, TFTP and Europol tools.
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The committee considers a petition on Roma discrimination and hate rhetoric in Hungary, with DG JUST recalling existing infringements and the Racial Equality Directive, before turning to a petition on equal treatment of nuclear energy in EU policy, where DG ENER and several MEPs debate technology‑neutrality, state‑aid control and investment conditions, and PETI keeps both petitions open while requesting further input from the Commission and ITRE.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Commissioner Hansen responds by stressing shared responsibility with Parliament for complex legislation, detailing current and planned simplification tools (Food & Feed Omnibus, guidance and anti‑gold‑plating instruments), clarifying promotion budget arithmetic and under‑used lines, and outlining the approach to Birds, Habitats and Nitrates, eligibility of plant proteins, risks of making core CAP mechanisms voluntary, and the need for predictable CAP and MFF decisions for farmers’ investments.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Nela Riehl and 9 others
The first panel examines EMFA’s digital aspects (Articles 18, 20, 24), AVMSD prominence rules and regulatory gaps, with experts, broadcasters and regulators outlining risks from platforms, algorithms and AI, followed by a broad political debate on disinformation, media independence, visibility, literacy and the use of EMFA/DSA tools, concluding with wrap-up messages on direct rights, prominence and funding instruments like AgoraEU.
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The Chair and Commission present the EU–US Enhanced Border Security Partnership framework, explaining the EU legal competence, two‑level (EU and bilateral) structure, refusal of US direct system access, limits on mass queries, the automated hit/no‑hit plus human‑follow‑up model, and embedded data‑protection safeguards assessed by the EDPS.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
Members debate possible EU‑level trade measures on products from Israeli settlements, as EEAS, DG TRADE and DG TAXUD outline the deteriorating West Bank context, current differentiation and customs controls, legal constraints and Council divisions, while MEPs split between advocating a full EU‑wide ban and defending existing trade ties and Palestinian employment, increasing political pressure on the Commission to table a proposal.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
The Chair and MEPs review the DROI mission to Indonesia and ASEAN, debate how strongly to press human rights (including West Papua and LGBTQI+ issues) in trade and political relations, and confront differing views on EU tone, conditionality and engagement with government counterparts.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Report‑back on the Indonesia–ASEAN mission highlighting civic space, minority rights and ICC advocacy, with MEPs pressing for stronger parliamentary cooperation and HRD protection and debating the delegation’s tone and tactics, including on LGBTQI+ rights and meetings with government officials.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Greens and Left MEPs warn against ‘voluntarisation’ of key CAP tools, export‑oriented promotion and deregulation risks for climate, plant‑protein strategies and animal welfare, while Rapporteur De Meo and shadows across groups insist on genuine simplification, easier access for small farms, maintaining or restoring the €205 million promotion level, and clarifying the balance between trade policy, origin labelling and support for vulnerable sectors.
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Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
The chair opens the second EMFA implementation day and the Commission sets out the rationale and key digital provisions of EMFA, explaining Articles 18, 20 and 24 and their interaction with AVMSD and future prominence reforms to protect trustworthy media online.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair introduces the study on defunding women’s rights organisations and gender backsliding, the authors document funding cuts, administrative harassment and diversion of resources away from specialist services, analyse anti‑gender networks and the concept of backsliding without formal legal repeal, and MEPs clash over the framing of ‘backsliding’ while raising concerns about migrant women, threatened national services and low Daphne success rates; the authors then recommend multi‑annual operating grants, more accessible and traceable EU funding (including Daphne and GAP IV targets), and safeguards to ensure EU money supports specialist feminist services rather than anti‑equality actors, before the Chair closes the public meeting.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Group coordinators from EPP, S&D, Patriots, ECR and Renew question the pace and depth of CAP simplification, urge stronger EU action against national gold‑plating, criticise perceived cuts and reallocations in promotion funding (simple vs multi programmes, quality schemes), and debate how Birds, Habitats and Nitrates rules should be revised without undermining farmers or environmental ambition.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
MEPs debate how to operationalise gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting, including better uptake of FEMM amendments, mandatory justifications when they are rejected, divergent views on gender quotas in party lists, the role of delegations and external relations, and the need for resources, monitoring and civil society engagement to turn formal equality into concrete institutional change, before co‑rapporteurs and the Chair signal next steps and the January vote.
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
The Chair opens the AGRI meeting, sets the agenda on CAP simplification and agri‑food promotion, and Commissioner Hansen presents the Commission’s approach to simplifying CAP implementation and related acquis, warning against national gold‑plating and detailing the proposed 2027 promotion budget and work‑programme priorities, including support for SMEs and trade diplomacy campaigns.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
JURI seminar on emerging technologies examines their interaction with EU values, then focuses on synthetic human genomics and artificial placenta/womb research, detailing scientific state of play, risks of reproductive and eugenic uses, identity and dignity concerns, gaps in parental and fetal/child status protections, and MEP–expert exchanges on liability, intergenerational effects and democratic control of such reproductive technologies.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair closes the AI item and introduces the annual report on gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament, as co‑rapporteurs and the BUDG opinion rapporteur present priorities on women’s access to Parliament and leadership, gender‑responsive budgeting across EU institutions and the entire budget cycle, systematic use of EIGE tools and sex‑disaggregated data, and the need for standardised gender impact assessments, stronger FEMM influence, and clear timetables under Parliament’s Gender Action Plan.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
MEPs question experts on vague terrorism definitions, restrictions on free expression, CT misuse against activists in Europe and Turkey, and the EU’s concrete conditionality and accountability tools, followed by expert replies on legal tests, remedies, sanctions, and coherence, and the formal closing of the workshop.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The committee turns to the new EU forced labour regulation, with the Commission mapping global import bans, detailing US and other partners’ enforcement models, and then addressing MEPs’ concerns about Xinjiang, the delayed EU risk database, GSP treatment of high‑risk products, potential protectionism, and the practical application of the EU regime and cooperation with the US and ILO.
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PETI reviews petitions on a Polish urban plan in Górki Czechowskie, a Croatian marina project near Posidonia meadows and illegally buried hazardous waste in Gospić, with DG ENV outlining the applicable EIA, Habitats, waste and Aarhus rules, pending national and EU procedures, and MEPs supporting keeping all three environmental petitions open, seeking deeper Commission scrutiny, written replies and follow‑up with Croatian authorities.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The study authors respond to MEPs on how AI can be steered for positive equality outcomes via feminist, rights‑based regulation, explain enforcement and accountability challenges under the AI Act and DSA (including limits of self‑assessment, de‑risking, resourcing of equality bodies and trusted flaggers, and the AI Office’s guidance role), and clarify how unconscious developer bias, data gaps, moderation practices and weak complaint handling reproduce structural gender inequalities beyond classic discrimination concepts.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Rapporteur and shadow speakers from multiple groups outline political priorities and concerns on AI’s risks and opportunities for gender equality, focusing on online abuse, deepfakes and hypersexualisation, the limits of current bans and classifications, structural discrimination in labour and welfare, data and NGO roles, and the need for stronger enforcement, reporting systems and a possible EU‑wide AI liability regime, including reference to stricter national approaches such as Italy’s labour rules.
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Committee on Human Rights (DROI)
Opening of the DROI workshop, presentation of the commissioned study, and initial expert statements from the UN Special Rapporteur, FIDH and EEAS on global misuse of counter‑terrorism frameworks and the EU’s human‑rights‑based approach.
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
The Chair opens the FEMM meeting during Gender Equality Week, sets the agenda and links the commissioned study on gender bias and AI to the committee’s own‑initiative work, while the authors present their research questions, impacts across key life domains and tech‑facilitated GBV, and a detailed analysis of the EU legal framework (equality law, GDPR, DSA, AI Act, VAW directive), including remedies, gaps and recommendations.
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Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Joint JURI–LIBE hearing on the 2024/1069 anti‑SLAPP Directive, covering the legal framework, uneven and often minimalist national transposition, gaps on domestic SLAPPs, examples from Malta, Belgium and candidate countries, Commission monitoring and infringement action, and an in‑depth Q&A on incentives for broader scope, judicial training, early dismissal tools and possible future legislative revisions within current Treaty limits.
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The Chair opens the PETI meeting, confirms coordinators’ decisions and agenda, then examines petitions on low‑glycaemic sweeteners for diabetic consumers and fluoroquinolone‑associated disability, with DG SANTE detailing the EU legal and scientific framework while MEPs argue to keep both health files open and request updated Commission information.
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Committee on International Trade (INTA)
The Chair opens the INTA session and conducts the annual exchange with the ILO on labour standards implementation in EU trade instruments, focusing on Colombia, the Philippines, Argentina and Uzbekistan, with MEPs and the Commission scrutinising ILO findings, government reforms and the leverage of FTAs and GSP+ before closing the item.
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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
SANT – ICM on Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening EU Health Resilience and Preparedness for Future Global Health Crises
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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