This week in #EPlenary⤵️
🗣️Debate the EU’s new “tech sovereignty package” (Tuesday morning)
🗳️Votes on Tuesday
🔸AI Omnibus (final vote)
🔸Countering transnational repression
🔸European political parties & foundations
🗳️Votes on Wednesday
🔸 Progress of seven candidate countries
EUDS Committee Press
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- Follow the plenary session here ➡️ link.europa.eu/V6Rt74 More details in our plenary newsletter ➡️ link.europa.eu/f7BFj9
- 📢Tue 2/6 in @EP_Democracy 🕒 9.00 - 12.30 CEST 💪 Strengthening Democracy and Public Trust in 🇪🇺 w/ @VeraJourova 🌍 Russian-sponsored disinformation in Africa w/ @PhilipObaji 🇳🇬 👨🏻🏫 Presentation of @ECoD_network by @HelfriedCarl 🔴Streaming: link.europa.eu/VwNMQ7
- EUDS Committee Press reposted#EPlenary debate at 9:00 🔴 EU readiness for emerging cyber-capable AI models Watch LIVE 📹 europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/hom…
- 🗓️ This week in #EPlenary (18-21 May) 🛡️EU cybersecurity & preparedness in view of advanced AI systems: debate Tue a.m. w/ @marilena_raouna of @CY2026EU & @HennaVirkkunen 🔎Screening of foreign investments in 🇪🇺: final vote Tue 📝@rglucks1 1/3🇪🇺EU governance under pressure - institutional responses to global challenges: debate Tue p.m. w/ @marilena_raouna & @MarosSefcovic 📝 @svensimon for @EPInstitutional ⚖️Rule of law, fundamental rights & misuse of 🇪🇺funds in 🇸🇰 Slovakia: vote Wed 2/3🇦🇿Azerbaijan’s decision to suspend cooperation with @Europarl_EN: debate Thu p.m. 🔗 Full agenda, docs, streaming: link.europa.eu/V6Rt74 3/3
- EUDS Committee Press repostedAs of today, the Anti-SLAPP Directive becomes a reality across all EU Member States. A powerful tool to address abusive lawsuits used to silence the truth. This is for Daphne Caruana Galizia. For every journalist, activist, academic, artist and researcher who refuse to back
- ⏰The @EP_Democracy meeting starts now! Tune in for the latest on the 🇪🇺 EU Democracy Shield 🔴Follow live📢Mon 4/5 in @EP_Democracy 🕒 16.30 – 18.30 🗳️Interference threats & electoral integrity in 🇧🇬 Bulgaria’s elections w/ - Velizar Shalamanov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the caretaker government - @christogrozev - @AntoinetteNikol of @BalkanFreeMedia 1/2multimedia.europarl.europa.euSpecial committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting - Multimedia CentreThe multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-Gene...
- “2025 was the deadliest year for journalists on record” On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May), the @EP_Justice @EP_Democracy & @EP_HumanRights Chairs condemned the attempts to undermine the independent work of journalists. Statement: link.europa.eu/cQrVcv
00:00 - 📢Mon 4/5 in @EP_Democracy 🕒 16.30 – 18.30 🗳️Interference threats & electoral integrity in 🇧🇬 Bulgaria’s elections w/ - Velizar Shalamanov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the caretaker government - @christogrozev - @AntoinetteNikol of @BalkanFreeMedia 1/2🎓Academic freedom in 🇪🇺 the EU: discussion on the Academic Freedom Monitor 2025 @EP_EPRS w/ - Prof. Peter Maassen of @UniOslo - Dr. Vicky Kosta of Leiden University 📄Docs: link.europa.eu/9ftK67 🔴Streaming: link.europa.eu/JVQYJy 2/2
- 📣The six-month extension of the EUDS special committee mandate was confirmed today by plenary with 422 votes in favour, 202 against and 9 abstentions (until 3 February 2027).
- 📢This week in #EPlenary (28-30/4) 📱 Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (rapp. @anna_cavazzini & @Andreas_Schwab) 🗣️Tue 🗳 Thu 💻 Platform responsibility on cyberbullying & online harassment 🗣️Wed w/@EU_Commission 🗳 Thu 1/📜Fundamental rights in the 🇪🇺 European Union in 2024 & 2025 (rapp. @annastrolenberg) 🗣️Tue 🗳 Wed ⚖️ The @EU_Commission 2025 Rule of Law report (rapp. @kostarvanitis) 🗣️Tue 🗳 Wed 🏛️Supporting democratic resilience in 🇦🇲 Armenia 🗣️Tue 🗳 Thu 2/
- 📢This afternoon in @EP_Democracy 🕒 19.00 – 20.30 🗣️Discussion about Tech Sovereignty, Security & Democracy w/ @HennaVirkkunen 📄Docs: link.europa.eu/9ftK67 🔴Streaming: link.europa.eu/9CmgfT
- This afternoon in EUDS from 16.30 🇵🇱🇱🇹mission to Poland and Lithuania 🗣️JRC report on “Future Challenges to Democracy” 🇭🇺 Hungary's elections: foreign interference, AI and online smear campaigns Follow live 🔴link.europa.eu/bJV3nP
- This morning at 10.00 in @EP_Democracy "Dismantling FIMI house of cards" 🗣discussion w/ @eu_eeas on the 4th Report on Foreign Information Manipulation & and Interference Threats Livestream 📹




