News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 23 (02-08.06.2025) and CW 24 (09-15.06.2025)
Digital: The EU Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy have presented the International Digital Strategy.
Cybersecurity crisis management: The EU Member States have adopted the Commission’s proposal on the “Cyber Blueprint”.
AI: The EU Commission has launched a public consultation on high-risk AI systems, which will remain open until 18 July 2025.
Cybersecurity: The EU Commission is making available a total of €145.5 million under the Digital Europe Programme and the Horizon Europe Programme. The funding will be used to promote, among other aspects, cybersecurity in hospitals and healthcare providers, as well as the use and development of generative AI for cybersecurity applications.
AI: The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published its Generative AI Outlook Report.
CSAM: Politico reports on the EU’s difficult efforts to crack down on child sexual abuse material.
Social media: French President Macron is calling for children under the age of 15 to be banned from social media. He has set a three-month deadline to reach an EU-wide agreement – otherwise, national implementation will follow. The European Commission has responded by indicating that Member States will be free to set their own minimum ages (Euractiv).
AI: Politico reports on the struggle over the AI Act and the potential suspension of its implementation.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Key Issues in the European Council – State of play in June 2025
- Public health
- Southeast Asia
- Recovery and Resilience Dialogue with the European Commission 16 June 2025
- Tax Barriers and Cross-Border Workers: Tackling the Fragmentation of the EU Tax Framework
- Revision of the Child Sexual Abuse Directive
- Digital agenda for Europe
- South Asia
- Policy for research and technological development
- AI Act implementation timeline
- Affordable communications for businesses and consumers
- Consumer policy: principles and instruments
- The internal market: general principles
- The EU’s digital partnerships
- Scaling up European Innovation
- Financial services policy
- Russia
- Innovation policy
- Hate speech: Comparing the US and EU approaches
- Financing the Trans-European Networks
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Impact assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings (until 18.06.2025)
- The EU Cybersecurity Act (until 20.06.2025)
- Digital Justice strategy for 2025-2030 (until 23.06.2025)
- Political advertising – guidance on implementing EU rules (until 25.06.2025)
- Digital product process – rules for service providers (until 01.07.2025)
- Electronic freight transport information (eFTI) platforms – specifications on the functional requirements (until 08.07.2025)
- Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act – speeding up decarbonisation (until 09.07.2025)
- Digital Networks Act (until 11.07.2025)
- European Data Union Strategy (until 18.07.2025)
- Proposal for an amendment to the InvestEU Regulation (until 18.07.2025)
- Vehicle safety – revising the EU’s roadworthiness package (until 28.07.2025)
- Mini omnibus for defence (until 29.07.2025)
- European grid package (until 05.08.2025)
- Omnibus Regulation Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 09.08.2025)
- Omnibus Directive Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 09.08.2025)
- Burden reduction and simplification for competitiveness of small mid-cap enterprises – Omnibus Directive (until 09.08.2025)
- Burden reduction and simplification for competitiveness of small mid-cap enterprises – Omnibus Regulation (until 09.08.2025)
- 2026-2030 gender equality strategy (until 11.08.2025)
- Consumer Agenda 2025-2030 and action plan on consumers in the Single Market (until 31.08.2025)
- Merger guidelines – review (until 03.09.2025)
Selections of the CW 25 (16-22.06.2025)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 29.06.2025 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Informal meeting of agriculture ministers, 15-17.06.2025, Agenda
- G7 summit, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, 16-17.06.2025, Agenda
- Eurogroup, 06.2025, Agenda, Agenda
- Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (Social policy) 19.06.2025, Agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- COREPER II, 06.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Competition, 06.2025, Agenda
- Antici Gr. (Simplification), 06.2025, Agenda
- Working Party of Foreign Relations Counsellors (Relex), 06.2025, Agenda
- Trade Policy Committee (TPC) – Experts (Services and Investment), 06.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 06.2025, Agenda
- JHA INFORMATION EXCHANGE, 06.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 06.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 06.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 06.2025
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 06.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on e-Justice, 06.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 06.2025
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 (STRA)
The agenda for the current plenary sittings week can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:
- State of play and follow-up two years after the PEGA recommendations and the illegal use of spyware
- Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy
- Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material. Recast
- Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility
- The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report
- Topical debate (Rule 169) – Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia
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.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 10.06.2025) 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 08.04.2025) 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 can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the CJEU here.
The closing statements in the Google and Alphabet v Commission (C-738/22 P) case are scheduled for Thursday, 19 June 2025. The legal dispute concerns, among other things, competition law issues related to the conditions used for the pre-installation of apps on mobile devices, the tying of the search app (Google Search) to Play, the tying of the Chrome browser to Play and the search app, as well as obligations to prevent fragmentation.
