News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News for CW 24, CW 25 and CW 26 (08/06/2026 – 28/06/2026)
Strategic partnership: The EU and Kenya are strengthening their strategic partnership in the areas of trade, digital transformation and sustainable investment. Under the “Global Gateway” initiative, investment will be made, amongst other things, in the expansion of high-speed connections to more than 3,000 public institutions, schools, health centres and digital innovation centres.
AI: The European Commission has published the final Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
Cybersecurity: From 10/06/2026 – 11/06/2026, around 5,000 experts took part in the EU-wide cyber exercise “Cyber Europe 2026”. The EU Cyber Blueprint, which sets out roles and responsibilities, was also tested for the first time during this exercise.
Digital Partnership: The EU and Brazil have signed a digital partnership which will strengthen cooperation in areas including data governance, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and connectivity, online platforms, and digital public goods and services. In this context, the parties also signed an administrative agreement focusing on the protection of minors on the Internet.
Cybersecurity: The Council of the European Union has approved Ukraine’s admission to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve. Ukraine can now draw on EU emergency support in the event of large-scale cybersecurity incidents.
Protection of Minors in the Media: The Special Committee on Children’s Online Safety met for the third and final time on 16/06/2026. On 13/07/2026, the committee’s two chairs will present their recommendations to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Video games: Following the “Stop Destroying Videogames” citizens’ initiative, the European Commission will engage with consumers and video game publishers.
Digital: The European Commission has published its fourth report on the state of the Digital Decade. This shows that progress has been made towards achieving the digital transformation targets by 2030. However, structural gaps still need to be closed.
Submarine cables: The European Commission is providing EUR 5.8 million to set up the first two regional cable centres in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. It has also published a call for tenders worth EUR 40 million to increase capacity for the repair of submarine communication cables.
Cloud computing: The European Commission has reached a preliminary assessment that Amazon and Microsoft, with their market-leading cloud services Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be classified as gatekeepers within the meaning of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), even though they do not meet the quantitative thresholds.
Selected publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Digital Omnibus Regulation on AI: Adoption in plenary
- EU Arctic policy update
- 28th regime: Proposal for an EU corporate legal framework
- Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
- Monthly Highlights: Research digest for committees – June 2026
- Question time: Current status of the European Commission’s commitment to reduce the reporting burden, particularly for SMEs
- Revision of the Cybersecurity Act
- Consumer policy: Principles and instruments
- Research for the TRAN Committee – Supporting Expert Report on the Roadworthiness Package
- Digital Omnibus on AI
- Revision of the Cybersecurity Act (CSA2)
- Addressing the gap between cyberbullying, cyberstalking and cyberharassment
- European Product Act
- Digital Health: Preparing Healthcare Systems for the Future
- Reforming the Better Regulation agenda: “A simpler, clearer and better enforced EU rulebook”
- Different legal approaches to the enforcement of key EU digital laws (Study)
- Different legal approaches to enforcing key EU digital laws (At a Glance)
- Could a digital services tax become an EU own resource? Revenue potential, policy trade-offs and strategic options
- The status of Taiwan (ROC) in an era of growing tension
- Monitoring the supply of critical raw materials in the EU
- A possible EU own resource based on a digital levy Cross-border trade in services, digital transformation and tax implications
- The implementation and impact of the VAT reverse charge mechanism in the EU: an assessment of implementation across Europe
- Plenary round-up – 01/06/2026
- The revision of the Eurojust Regulation: Key takeaways from implementation
- Slovenia’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest developments
- Revision of EU energy product legislation – Implementation takeaways
- MiCAR versus the GENIUS Act
- Outcome of the European Council meeting, 18/06/2026 – 19/06/2026
- Germany’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest developments
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Protecting children from crime (until 29/06/2026)
- Digital EU driving licences – standards and regulations (until 14/07/2026)
- Horizon Europe – European Partnerships to be implemented as joint companies (until 14/07/2026)
- European Interoperability Framework – Review (until 15/07/2026)
- EU Centre for Critical Raw Materials (until 29/07/2026)
- EU rules on multimodal digital mobility services and standardised digital booking and ticketing services (until 31/07/2026)
- Biotech Act (until 05/08/2026)
- Police cooperation – EU rules on the automated retrieval and exchange of biometric data with non-EU countries (until 07/08/2026)
- Markets for crypto-assets: evaluation of the EU legal framework (until 31/08/2026)
Highlights from the Current Week, CW 27 (29/06/2026 – 05/07/2026)
Council:
You can find the latest outlook on the Council’s work for the coming days up to 12/07/2026 here.
Summits and Ministerial Meetings:
- Meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Social Policy), 29/07/2026, Agenda, Agenda
Preparatory bodies:
- Working Party on Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN), 29/06/2026, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 29/06/2026, Agenda
- Security Committee, 29/06/2026 – 30/06/2026, Agenda
- JHA Counsellors, 30/06/2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 30/06/2026, Agenda
- COREPER I, 30/06/2026, Agenda
- COREPER II, 01/07/2026, Agenda
- Trade Policy Committee (TPC) (Experts – Services and Investment), 01/07/2026, Agenda
- Working Party on Civil Protection (Prociv) (Critical Entities Resilience (Cer)), 01/07/2026
- “Competitiveness and Growth” Group (Industry), 01/07/2026, Agenda
- “Company Law” Group, 02/07/2026, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 02/07/2026, Agenda
- “Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society”, 02/07/2026, Agenda
- COREPER I, 03/07/2026, 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 publication. 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 taking place this week.
You can find the current schedule for this week at the European Parliament here. The calendar of sessions for 2026 is available here.
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
The agenda for the LIBE Committee meeting on 29/06/2026 can be found here.
The agenda for the joint committee meeting of the LIBE Committee and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on 02/07/2026 can be found here.
The agenda for the joint meeting of the LIBE Committee, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Food Safety on 02/07/2026 can be found here.
You can find the LIBE Committee’s timetables here.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee on 02/07/2026 can be found here.
You can find the JURI Committee’s timetables here.
The agenda for the joint committee meeting of the ITRE Committee and the Committee on Public Health on 29/06/2026 can be found here.
You’ll find the agenda for the extraordinary meeting of the ITRE Committee on 02/07/2026 here.
The current timetables (as at 23/06/2026) for the ITRE Committee can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Single Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables (as at 07/05/2026) for the IMCO Committee can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables (as at 08/06/2026) for the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
You’ll find an overview of the forthcoming session weeks here. You’ll find the provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary session here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the court calendar for the CJEU here.
- The Court will deliver its judgment in the case of Airbus Defence and Space and Marlink Events v AED (T-105/24) on Wednesday 01/07/2026.
- The Court will also deliver judgment in the case of BT GS Belgium v Commission (T-173/25) on Wednesday 01/07/2026.
- The Court will deliver its judgment in the case of Google and Alphabet v Commission (C-738/22 P) on Thursday 02/07/2026.
- The Court will also deliver the judgment in the case of Traugott Ickeroth (C-67/25) on Thursday 02/07/2026.
