News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 35 (25-31 August 2025)
Cybersecurity: The European Commission and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) have signed an agreement on the operation and management of the EU Cybersecurity Reserve.
Franco-German relations: Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron have agreed on a joint economic agenda covering AI, quantum computing and digital sovereignty, among other topics.
Open source: The Linux Foundation has published the 2025 World of Open Source
Europe Report: Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage.
AI: The United Nations General Assembly has decided on the modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance.
Transatlantic relations: The US House of Judiciary Committee invited former EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Thierry Breton to testify at a hearing on “Europe’s threat to American speech and innovation.” Breton declined the invitation. The EU Commission’s spokesperson for digital affairs, Thomas Regnier, dismissed the allegations of censorship as nonsense, saying they were completely unfounded and false.
Data protection: Europe is turning its external borders into a digital fortress. Drones, cameras, satellites and huge databases comprehensively record migrants and effectively treat them as suspects. Experts criticise the measures as disproportionate and warn of systematic violations of fundamental rights. There is also a risk that these surveillance technologies will also be used against the general population in the future.
Transatlantic relations: Politico reports on Donald Trump’s threat to impose significant additional tariffs and export restrictions on technology and chips on countries with discriminatory digital taxes, laws, rules or regulations, as well as the reactions of Teresa Ribera, Stéphane Séjourné, Paula Pinho, and Emmanuel Macron.
Selected publications from the EP Think Tank
- Alternative dispute resolution
- The European Union’s AI code of practice
- 3D printed firearms
- Payment services framework
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Omnibus Regulation Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 3 September 2025)
- Omnibus Directive Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 3 September 2025)
- Merger guidelines – review (until 3 September 2025)
- Digitalisation of justice: European judicial training strategy 2025-2030 (until 9 September 2025)
- Legislative act on the European Research Area Act (until 10 September 2025)
- Data retention by service providers for criminal proceedings – impact assessment (until 12 September 2025)
- Inside information platforms and registered reporting mechanisms under REMIT – Commission Regulation (until 15 September 2025)
- Whistleblower Protection Directive – evaluation (by 18 September 2025)
- Review of the Digital Markets Act (by 23 September 2025)
- Action plan against cyberbullying (by 29 September 2025)
- European Innovation Act (by 3 October 2025)
- Digital Fairness Act (by 24 October 2025)
- EU Space Act – new rules for safe, resilient and sustainable space activities (by 26 October 2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) – EU funding for competitiveness (until 26 October 2025)
- The next long-term EU budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) – EU funding for cross-border education and training, solidarity, young people, media, culture and creative industries, values and civil society (until 26 October 2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for cross-border education, training and solidarity, young people, media, culture, and creative sectors, values, and civil society (until 26 October 2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for external action (until 26 October 2025)
- EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – implementing EU funding with Member States and regions (until 26 October 2025)
- Artificial intelligence and digitalisation in the energy sector – a roadmap (until 5 November 2025)
- Energy – Heating and Cooling Strategy (until 20 November 2025)
Selection of the CW 36 (1-7 September 2025)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work in the coming days was not available at the time of writing. You may be able to find it at short notice on the Council’s website.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Informal meeting of energy ministers, 4–5 September 2025, agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- Working Party on Civil Protection (PROCIV), 1 September 2025, agenda
- Antici Gr. (Simplification), 1 September 2025, agenda
- Working Party on Frontiers, 1 September 2025, agenda
- Working Party on Research, 1 September 2025, agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 1 September 2025, agenda
- WORKING PARTY ON THE UNITED KINGDOM, 2 September 2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Energy, 2 September 2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Space, 2 September 2025, Agenda
- Ad Hoc WP on prep. Council concl. on enhanc. prepared., resp. capability & resilience future crisis, 3 September 2025
- Coreper II, 3 September 2025, Agenda
- Committee on Cultural Affairs, 3 September 2025, agenda
- Law Enforcement Working Party (Customs), 3 September 2025, agenda
- Woking Party on Space, 3 September 2025
- Coreper I, 3 September 2025, agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 4 September 2025, agenda
- Working Party on Research, 4 September 2025, agenda
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth – Internal Market, 4 September 2025, agenda
- WP on Defence Industry, 4 September 2025
- Ad Hoc Working Party on the Multiannual Financial Framework (European Competitiveness Fund), 4 September 2025, agenda
- WP on Telecommunications and Information Society,09.2025, Agenda
- WP on Tax Questions – Indirect Taxation, 5 September 2025, Agenda
- Working Party on e-Justice, 5 September 2025, agenda
- Working Party on Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN), 5 September 2025, agenda
- Antici Gr. (Simplification), 5 September 2025, Agenda
An overview of the various Council meetings can be found here.
Commission:
The agenda for the current Commission meeting was not available at the time of writing. You may be able to find it at short notice on the Commission’s website.
Parliament:
Plenary Sittings
There are no plenary sessions of the European Parliament this week.
Here you will find the current schedule for the European Parliament for the current week. The session calendar for 2025 is available here.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current schedules for the LIBE Committee can be found here.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current schedules for the JURI Committee can be found here.
The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee on 4 September 2025 can be found here.
The current timetables (as of 29 July 2025) of the ITRE Committee can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables (as of 15 July 2025) for the IMCO Committee can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
The agenda for the current meeting of the CULT Committee on 1 September 2025 can be found here.
The current timetables for the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary session can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the CJEU here.
The Opinion in the European Lotto and Betting and Deutsche Lotto- und Sportwetten case (C-440/23) is scheduled for Thursday, 4 September 2025. The request for a preliminary ruling from the Prim’Awla tal-Qorti Ċivili (Malta) concerns online gambling.
