Name: Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-07-15T08:30:00+00:00
Duration: 4547 s

08:42 - 10:10

Speaker 1

So, colleagues, good morning or nearly good afternoon. Next point in the adoption is the adoption of the agenda. If there are no amendments, the agenda of the meeting can be adopted. Please take your seat, everybody. Okay.

I love everybody could seat, everybody could seat. It's not a party with a cocktail. Not yet. Sometimes it's really funny. Okay.

So, colleagues, I submit for approval the minutes of the meeting held on the 6th and 7th May 2026. Do you have any comments? If there are no comments, the minutes are deemed approved. So now, colleagues, we are now coming to the vote on the report on hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU territory integrity and critical security and defense infrastructure. This will be an electronic vote, so please have your voting cards ready.

And before proceeding to the vote, no, I don't what, I would like to briefly give the floor, sorry, to rapporteur Rasa for one minute. Rasa, the floor is yours.

10:10 - 11:40

Speaker 2

Thank you. Chair, colleagues, just a few words before we vote. My thanks to the shadow rapporteurs, to all the teams behind them, because that is where much of the real work happened. And a special thank to Katharina Wolf, our SEDE advisor. Anyone who has lived through about 500 amendments knows how much work it is.

I think our biggest achievement is not only the good text. It is that today, across a very broad political spectrum, we understand this threat in the same way. That is not something we could have said in the previous parliamentary term. And it matters more than it might sound. A shared sense of the threat, political will, unity, these are what Russia's, especially Russia's, hybrid strategy tries to break first before military attack begins.

They are the foundation of our deterrence. So this report is a step towards a union able to defend not only its territory, but also the democratic foundations our security rests on. Colleagues, despite many amendments, we have one block vote. On a hybrid topic, let us try to avoid a hybrid vote. Let us keep this one simple.

And allow me one wish. I have a dream that this report will be read, not only in this room, but in our capitals as well.

11:38 - 11:44

I wish you a peaceful summer. Thank you all.

11:44 - 12:05

Speaker 1

Thank you very much, Bart. I can see that we have clearly enough of members to meet the quorum for a vote. So before we proceed, we need to check the voting system working correctly. So please insert your voting cards. Now we have a test vote and the vote is open.