News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 2 (5-11.01.2026)
DMA: The European Commission has published a summary of the results of the consultation on the review of the Digital Markets Act. The DMA will be reviewed every three years to ensure that it achieves its objectives and remains effective in the changing environment of digital markets. The first review report is due to be presented by 3 May 2026.
DSA: Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a law implementing the Digital Services Act, even though the Polish Parliament had already adopted the law at the end of 2025.
Cyberbullying: In France, 10 people were found guilty for repeatedly claiming that Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, was not a cisgender woman or that she was committing “criminal acts of pedophilia” against her husband.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Trans-European Networks – guidelines
- Risk and opportunities in relation to evolving financial and economic relations with the US
- Financing the Trans-European Networks
- Ten issues to watch in 2026
- Priority dossiers under the Cyprus EU Council Presidency
- Consumer policy: principles and instruments
- Revised rules on the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
- River Information Services Directive review
- Finland’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
- A newly adopted Culture Compass for Europe
- Digital package – Revision of the Cybersecurity Act: Implementation takeaways
- Mapping threats to peace and democracy worldwide: Normandy Index 2025
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Law enforcement cooperation – new Europol regulation (proposal) (until 15.01.2026)
- European Research Area Act (until 23.01.2026)
- Political advertising – detailed arrangements for the European repository for online political advertisements (until 26.01.2026)
- EU strategy on combating trafficking in human beings 2026-2030 (until 26.01.2026)
- Fair labour mobility package (until 02.02.2026)
- European Open Digital Ecosystems (until 03.02.2026)
- European Investigation Order Directive (until02.2026)
- Product legislation – ensuring futureproof rules (revision of the New Legislative Framework – NLF) (until 04.02.2026)
- Communication on better regulation (until 04.02.2026)
- Defence – simplifying EU rules for defence and sensitive security procurement (until 17.02.2026)
- Cross-border judicial cooperation – revision of Eurojust Regulation (impact assessment) (until 24.02.2026)
- Skills portability, action 1 – facilitating worker mobility across the EU through skills transparency and digitalisation (until 27.02.2026)
- Simplification – digital package and omnibus (until 09.03.2026)
- Digital fitness check – testing the cumulative impact of the EU’s digital rules (until 11.03.2026)
Selections of the Current Week, CW 3 (12-18.01.2026)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 25.01.2026 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
This week, there are no Council meetings of relevance to the Internet industry.
Preparatory Bodies:
- Working Party on Research, 01.2026, Agenda
- Education Committee, 01.2026, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 01.2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth – Industry, 01.2026, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 01.2026
- Political and Security Committee, 01.2026
- Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU, 01.2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Space, 01.2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 01.2026, Agenda
- Budget Committee, 01.2026, Agenda
- Trade Policy Committee (TPC) – Experts (Services and Investment), 01.2026, Agenda
- COREPER I, 01.2026, Agenda
- COREPER II, 01.2026, Agenda
- Listening Room Coreper 2, 01.2026
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 01.2026, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 01.2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 01.2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN), 01.2026, Agenda
An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.
Commission:
The agenda of the current Commission meeting was not available at our time of writing. You can potentially find it on the Commission’s website in the near future.
Parliament:
Plenary Sittings
There are no plenary sittings of the European Parliament taking place this week.
Here you can find a list of the upcoming dates of the European Parliament. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here (PDF).
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
No meeting of the LIBE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.
The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 15.01.2026 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:
- Exchange of views with Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director-General for Energy, European Commission, on the delegated act on Projects of common interest (PCI) and Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI)
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 16.12.2025) can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 3.12.2025) can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the CULT Committee (as of 3.12.2025) can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary sittings can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the CJEU here.
For Thursday, 15 January 2026, the judgment in the Wunner case (C-77/24) is scheduled. The request for a preliminary ruling from the “Obersten Gerichtshof” (Supreme Court of Austria) concerns claims for damages arising from the provision of online gambling without a licence.
On the same day, the Opinion in the Anne Frank Fonds case (C-788/24) is expected. The request for a preliminary ruling from the “Hoge Raad der Nederlanden” (Netherlands) concerns the publication of a work on the Internet as a communication to the public in a particular country, geo-blocking, and circumvention by means of a VPN or similar service.
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