Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Ordinary meeting Joint meeting Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
4 November 2026
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LIBE, FEMM European Parliament
00:07 - 01:39
Speaker 3
Well dear colleagues, please take your seats so we can start our joint session with LIBE and FEMM Committees
on a very important topic. If there are no objections to the draft agenda, we'll consider that as adopted. And then we move
to the substantial item that we are going to discuss. The Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, two years on: progress, gaps, and the fight for a consent-based definition of rape.
This Directive, adopted in 2024, is an essential step forward to better protect women and girls from violence, whether at home, at work, offline, or online. Additionally, the Directive will play a key role for preventing patterns of coercion, power, and control, and in particular for preventing rape. I'm confident that these measures, once implemented at national level, will make a difference in the lives of victims or potential victims of violence. From the perspective of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, this discussion is an opportunity to look at the preparations for the timely transposition
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