The View from Brussels #24-2025

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 26 (23-29.06.2025)

Post-quantum cryptography: The EU Member States have presented a roadmap for the implementation of post-quantum cryptography. According to this roadmap, all Member States should start transitioning to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2026; critical infrastructures should be transitioned as soon as possible, but no later than the end of 2030.

European Media Freedom Act: The EU Commission has launched a consultation on upcoming guidelines to protect media service providers from the unjustified removal of their content from very large online platforms (with over 45 million users per month).

AI: The EU Commission has unveiled new features for AI researchers and industry on the AI-on-Demand platform (aiodp.eu).

Submarine cables: A group of experts from EU Member States and the EU Commission has agreed on EU-wide mapping and coordinated risk assessment of submarine cable infrastructures. The results are due to be published in autumn 2025.

Media Pluralism: The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom has presented its Media Pluralism Monitor 2025.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

Digital product passport – 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)
eIDAS Regulation – risk management procedures for non-qualified trust service providers (implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
eIDAS Regulation – trusted lists (amendment to implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
eIDAS Regulation – accreditation of conformity assessment bodies (implementing act) (until 18.07.2025)
International calls and text messages (SMS) within the EU – fair use and anti-fraud policy (until 21.07.2025)
Standardisation Regulation – revision (until 21.07.2025)
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)
2026-2030 gender equality strategy (until 11.08.2025)
Omnibus Regulation Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 18.08.2025)
Omnibus Directive Aligning product legislation with the digital age (until 18.08.2025)
Burden reduction and simplification for competitiveness of small mid-cap enterprises – Omnibus Directive (until 18.08.2025)
Burden reduction and simplification for competitiveness of small mid-cap enterprises – Omnibus Regulation (until 18.08.2025)
Consumer Agenda 2025-2030 and action plan on consumers in the Single Market (until 31.08.2025)
Merger guidelines – review (until 03.09.2025)
Impact assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings (until 12.09.2025)

Selections of the CW 27 (30.06.-06.07.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 13.07.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

EU-Moldova summit, 07.2025

Preparatory Bodies:

Ad Hoc WP on Defense Industry, 06.2025
Working Party on Financial Services and the Banking Union (Banking Union), 06.2025, Agenda
Visa Working Party, 06.2025, Agenda
Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 06.2025, Agenda
COREPER II, 06.2025
Working Party on Frontiers, 07.2025, Agenda
Working Party on Space, 07.2025, Agenda
WP on Hybrid Threats, 07.2025
Working Party on Intellectual Property – Copyright, 07.2025, Agenda
Ad Hoc WP on Defense Industry, 07.2025
Politico-Military Group (PMG), 07.2025
Trade Policy Committee (TPC) – Experts (Services and Investment), 07.2025, Agenda
COREPER II, 07.2025, Agenda
COREPER I, 07.2025, Agenda
Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 07.2025, Agenda
Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 07.2025
Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 07.2025, Agenda
WP on Hybrid Threats, 07.2025

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

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)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 30.06.2025 can be found here.

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.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 24.06.2025) 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 26.06.2025) 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. 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.