IMCO opens, adjusts its agenda and hears a detailed Eurobarometer presentation on adolescents’ screen time, exposure to online harms and public support for EU rules, followed by MEP questions on addiction, parental roles and education and Commission replies on the limits and policy relevance of the data. The segment closes with suspension of the meeting ahead of the voting session.
Discussion turns to whether the EU programme can finance waste management, noting an exception that would in principle allow cohesion funds to support it and highlighting that 80% of waste in French Guiana still goes to landfill versus 15% at national level. The speaker explains that due to negotiation difficulties in the last programme, waste management could ultimately not be financed, and the visit concludes with closing thanks.
The group reaches the terminus and briefly compares it to forest stations, before demonstrating the ticketing and validation system including card and bank card payment. They outline how passengers will move along the dedicated BRT corridor and access subsequent stations on foot.
Explanation of French Guiana’s first BRT project to address congestion and shift commuters from cars to buses, citing the major structuring project under the 2014–2020 EU programme with €40 million funding. The speaker describes imported technical equipment for bus maintenance, washing, fuelling and the new real-time control and safety monitoring centre for the entire network.
National and European parliamentarians question the FRO and Consultative Forum on integrating rights into policing, AI assessments and the AI Act, coordination with FRA, new surveillance technologies, third‑country cooperation, children’s data, remedies for erroneous links, ETIAS, and lethal force presumptions, with responses detailing advisory but influential FRO opinions, limits on data exchange with abusive regimes, safeguards for data accuracy and freezing, and the need for trust‑based, rights‑compliant policing before the chair closes the session.
Commission trade and fisheries officials defend limited tuna concessions and autonomous SPS/IUU controls, highlight FTA-based leverage on sustainability and labour, describe safeguard clauses and IT CATCH traceability, address Thailand and Philippines yellow‑card risks, labelling, pollock imports and Indonesia fleet transparency, after which the Chair urges defence of EU fisheries interests and closes the meeting.
The Secretary-General responds on Ukraine and the Abu Dhabi talks, Black Sea grain exports and global food security, EU engagement with Israel–Palestine, enlargement and the European security architecture, sanctions and the Arctic strategy with EEAS resource needs, then addresses the Bosnia High Representative issue before the Chair closes the AFET meeting.
The Chair launches the Q&A round in which MEPs question the Secretary-General on Ukraine talks and security guarantees, grain diplomacy, EEAS institutional positioning and election observation, Russia sanctions enforcement and hybrid threats, Europe’s security order and Abu Dhabi representation, Magnitsky-style tools, Palestine and the Arctic, perceived double standards, and the Bosnia High Representative and EU–US alignment.
The chair closes the Europol item and opens the fundamental rights session, where Europol’s Fundamental Rights Officer and the new Consultative Forum present their legal bases, monitoring roles, handling of third‑country data transfers, oversight of AI and innovation tools, and the Forum’s initial establishment phase and confidentiality framework.
MEPs raise taxation and food policy, EU‑wide screening, rural access, school exercise, industry regulation and national performance, prompting expert discussion of population‑level screening using glucose and HbA1c, social determinants and inequalities in access to new drugs, stigma and blame narratives around type 2 diabetes, the need for integrated care pathways, and full inclusion of children with diabetes in physical activity, before the Chair closes the session and promotes on‑site testing.
MEPs from several groups question the impact of tuna concessions on EU fleets and canneries, demand stronger safeguards, transparency and traceability, raise sanitary, IUU and labour-rights objections regarding Southeast Asian partners, point to cumulative FTA effects and Philippine monitoring setbacks, and challenge the consistency of maintaining large fish imports from Russia.
The Chair opens the AFET exchange with the new EEAS Secretary-General, who delivers a broad introductory statement on her role, evolving multilateralism, democracy and human rights, Middle East priorities, CFSP effectiveness, recent global outreach actions and the link between the next MFF/Global Europe and the EU’s external ambitions.
The Chair closes the EMFAF debate and opens the trade–fisheries item, while DG TRADE and DG MARE explain EU dependence on fish imports, the treatment of tuna and other sensitive products in FTAs with Southeast Asian partners, the use of calibrated quotas, strict rules of origin, sustainability and IUU disciplines, and vigilance against back‑door market access.
The European Commission presents the existing EU framework on pesticides and OSH and Member States’ enforcement role, after which the Chair summarises key points and outlines future EMPL committee work on protecting agricultural workers from pesticide risks.
The Chair closes the gender item, opens the agenda point on early action on diabetes and introduces experts, who set out IDF Europe’s prevention and physical activity agenda, Erasmus+ tools, and the epidemiology, costs and mortality of diabetes in Europe, distinguishing type 1 from type 2 and underlining early detection, lifestyle measures and modern cardio‑protective treatments.
Experts respond on EU frameworks and Biotech Act implementation, obstetric and gynaecological violence, national best practices, and the neglect of endometriosis, while stressing the central role of prevention, HPV vaccination and screening, the need to include women (including pregnant women) in trials, to adjust pharma incentives, and to scale up EU funding and awareness for women’s specific conditions.
The Commission responds on implementation timelines, definitions and support for small-scale and outermost fleets, under‑24m and young fisher thresholds, fleet balance and DNSH, CO₂ and engine rules, WTO compatibility on overfished stocks, public‑aid targeting by market failure, and defends the current SSCF definition and CFP performance while pointing to upcoming Vision 2040 work.
The rapporteur and several MEPs highlight persistent discrimination in women’s health, underrepresentation in research, gaps on fertility, prenatal care and endometriosis, and call for an EU strategy on gender and health, while asking experts about frontrunner member states, informed consent, and concrete priorities and legislative levers at EU level.
Members press Europol and the Management Board on the migrant smuggling taskforce, fears of a supranational police role, online and platform‑based crime, operational readiness and change management, revolving doors and grants, governance reforms, and the impact of MFF cuts on delivering the 2027–2029 programme, with replies outlining support to Member States, limits of Europol’s mandate, online cooperation tools, grant oversight, and structural budget constraints.
EIGE’s expert links unequal health prevention and outcomes to broader structural gender inequalities, intersectional disadvantages and gaps in screening and diagnosis, then identifies EU priorities around supporting informal carers, investing in quality care services, and promoting positive gender norms to improve prevention and reduce violence against women.
Chairs launch the debate and MPs/MEPs question Europol on the gap between workload and the 2027 budget, safeguards in cooperation with Türkiye, Israel and MENA partners, and whether priorities should shift toward cyber and hybrid threats, with Europol stressing project postponements, strict Article 25 use, respect for national sovereignty and the need for central EU‑level technological investment.
Three consecutive question rounds where MEPs interrogate EU‑OSHA, NGOs, trade unions and employers on Omnibus 10, pesticide authorisations, OSH enforcement, data gaps, disease recognition, CAP social conditionality, competitiveness and practical prevention tools.
Rapporteur and shadows from major groups set out political priorities on EMFAF, calling for more flexibility, deeper simplification, stronger support for safety, decarbonisation and small-scale fleets, scrutiny of engine and capacity rules, tailored treatment for outermost regions, protection of social and environmental spending, and clarification of links with WTO obligations and future funds.
The Chair opens the SANT meeting, sets the agenda on gender inequalities in health, and introduces ESGO’s expert, who outlines the burden of gynaecological cancers, structural research gaps, and gender bias in trials before presenting concrete ESGO asks for EU-level instruments, including ring‑fenced funding, Biotech Act implementation with sex‑disaggregated data, centres of excellence, and an EU women’s health plan.
The Chair opens the Fisheries Committee meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and introduces the EMFAF simplification and WTO subsidies file, followed by the Commission outlining the objectives, timelines, funding rules and new support schemes proposed in the targeted EMFAF amendment.
Co‑chair introduces the Europol activities item, followed by Europol’s leadership detailing new legal powers on migrant smuggling, multiannual programming under the next MFF, external partnerships, major crime and terrorism trends, cyber and hybrid threats, and the need for adequate funding and governance to match Europol’s expanding mandate.
Launch of the public hearing on occupational exposure to pesticides and initial evidence from EU‑OSHA, PAN Europe, EFFAT and GEOPA‑COPA on health risks, regulatory gaps, enforcement challenges, employers’ concerns and transition pathways in agriculture.
Chairs open the 19th JPSG meeting, confirm agenda and troika decisions, and provisionally adopt the Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights working methods after hearing Swedish concerns, with a written procedure and final decision foreseen in Vilnius.
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
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