Policy & Law
16.09.2025

The View from Brussels #35

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 37 (08-14.09.2025)

Data Act: The Data Act entered into force on Friday. Information from the German Federal Network Agency can be found here in German.

Strategic Foresight Report: On Tuesday, the European Commission published its 2025 Strategic Foresight Report, entitled “Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to thrive amid turbulence and uncertainty”.

State of the Union: On Wednesday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered the State of the Union 2025 speech to the European Parliament.

Digital Services Act: The General Court annulled the Commission’s decisions setting the supervisory fee applicable to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. (EURACTIV, POLITICO)

Digital sovereignty: On Friday, a working meeting   in Vienna to draft a European Charter on digital sovereignty principles.

Digital Fairness Act: The German Advisory Council on Consumer Affairs has published a German-language position paper entitled “Perspectives for a Digital Fairness Act”.

DSA and GDPR: The European Data Protection Board has adopted guidelines on the interplay between the Digital Services Act and the General Data Protection Regulation. Feedback may be provided as part of a consultation until the end of October.

AI: Albania has appointed the world’s first AI-made minister. Her name is Diella (meaning sunshine in Albanian) and she will be responsible for all public procurement.

Social media: A French parliamentary Inquiry Commission called for, among other things, a ban on social media for children and minors under the age of 15, as well as a call for 15- to 18-year-olds  to have their accounts compulsorily switched off between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise on social media restrictions for minors by the end of the year. Sweden’s Health Minister Jakob Forssmed called for faster action.

Security: The EU’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Bartjan Wegter calls for the police to access certain end-to-end encrypted messages.

Transatlantic relations: The US is its cooperation on combating disinformation under the framework to counter foreign state manipulation.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

 

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

Selections of the CW 38 (15-21.09.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 28.09.2025 can be found here.

Summit and Ministerial Meetings:

Preparatory Bodies:

 

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.

ITRE Committee (Industry)

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

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 09.09.2025) 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 02.09.2025) 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.

  • For Thursday, 09.2025, the Opinions of the Court are scheduled in the joined cases – namely, WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates (C-188/24) and Coyote System (C-190/24).
  • For Thursday, 09.2025, the Opinions of the Court are scheduled in the case Magyar Telekom (C-514/24).
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