Policy & Law
19.11.2025

The View from Brussels #44-2025

News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week

News CW 46 (10-16.11.2025)

Gigabit Infrastructure: The Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA) entered into effect on 12 November 2025. It aims to simplify complex procedures and accelerate the rollout of telecom networks.

Digital Omnibus: Politico and Euractiv report critical reactions to the planned changes relating to AI and data protection.

Democracy and civil society: The EU Commission has presented the European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society. The Democracy Shield aims to improve the collective capacity to counter information manipulation and disinformation and to strengthen the resilience through a whole-of-society approach. The new European Centre for Democratic Resilience will bring together EU and Member States’ expertise and resources to provide a framework for information exchange and capacity building. The strategy aims to intensify cooperation between the European Commission and civil society and to support and protect the work of organisations. Politico reports on critical reactions.

Digital Skills: The European Digital Skills Awards were presented on Wednesday.

AI: Reportedly, the entry into force of the rules on high-risk AI systems is to be postponed by one year, until August 2027.

Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks

 

Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations

Selections of the CW 47 (17-23.11.2025)

Council:

The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 30.11.2025 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 and the plenary sittings for 2026 is available here.

Committees

LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)

The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee taking place on 20.11.2025 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)

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee, the Committee on Security and Defence, as well as the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety will be taking place on 17.11.2025 and can be found here.

The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee taking place on 20.11.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda items are relevant:

  • Presentation of the study “Interplay between the AI Act and the EU digital legislative framework” by the Policy Department
  • Amending Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 of 13 July 2021 on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and repealing Regulation (EU) 2018/1488
  • Exchange of views with Dan Jørgensen, Commissioner for Energy and Housing, on current energy related issues including the State of the Energy Union

The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 11.11.2025) 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 11.11.2025) 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.

The ruling in the case Amazon EU v Commission (T-367/23) is scheduled for Wednesday. The proceedings concern the classification as a very large online platform, non-profiling-based options for recommendation systems, as well as a publicly accessible advertising archive.

The View from Brussels 11 June 2018

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