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MEPs want a 90% reduction target for emissions by 2040 compared with 1990 levels to achieve a climate neutral EU by 2050.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

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Europe’s blue education is making waves, turning classrooms into gateways to ocean literacy

Progress on the joint Future Air Combat System (FCAS) has stalled due to a dispute between France and Germany’s aviation giants

Denmark challenges EU’s powers over pay as Court of Justice prepares landmark ruling

Dutch liberal Azmani’s report tries to square fast-track returns with fundamental rights, softening the Commission’s hard-edge approach

The EU still sits firmly in the ‘ambitious’ camp for emissions reduction targets. But to realise a green transition it must overcome a growing climate action fatigue, as well as the backroom ear-bending of lobbyists and public threats of mass layoffs

DRAFT OPINION on 2024 discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU - Commission
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Evin Incir

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Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Beijing accused the EU of enabling 'separatist activities' after Taiwan’s vice president made a rare address at the European Parliament

Former French president was sentenced to five years over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 campaign

"The Commission’s proposals are quite good and meet our demands," said EPP MEP Herbert Dorfmann, while sources close to the file said centre-left S&D lawmakers were unhappy with the suggestions

Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act

The Commission wants a new "European Centre for Democratic Resilience", per a draft of the European Democracy Shield initiative seen by Euractiv

REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/947 as regards increased efficiency of the External Action Guarantee
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Development
David McAllister, Charles Goerens

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The United States and China have been involved in a volatile trade and tariff war for months

Qui passera en premier à la caisse ?

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Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026

The next meeting of the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Monday, 17 November 2025 from 15.00 - 18.30 in Brussels (room ANTALL 4Q1).

Further information about the SEDE meeting can be found here.

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SEDE missions 2025:

• Djibouti - 27-29 October 2025
  
• Greenland - 15-19 September 2025
  
• Norway - 27-30 May 2025
• Moldova and Ukraine - 14-17 April 2025
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 24-27 February 2025
• Israel and Palestine - 5-8 February 2025

SEDE missions 2024:

• United Kingdom - 28-30 October 2024
• Ukraine - 25-26 October 2024

SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2025
EP calendar 2025
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À l’approche de la COP30 de Belém, les États membres de l’UE peinent à parler d’une seule voix sur la marche à suivre pour combler l’écart entre les promesses mondiales et les actions nécessaires. Lassitude politique, divergences d’approche et absence d’alliés solides… L’UE aborde le rassemblement mondial annuel dans un climat d’incertitude.

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Soucieuse d’éviter un blocage du prochain budget de l’Union par le Parlement européen, la Commission a fait savoir ce week-end qu’elle était prête à revoir des éléments clés de sa proposition.

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