News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 49 (01-07.12.2025)
Protection of minors: This year’s Safer Internet Forum took place on Thursday. Under the title “Why age matters: Protecting and empowering youth in the digital age”, participants discussed how to ensure age-appropriate online experiences.
AI: The European Commission, the European Investment Bank Group and the European Investment Fund signed a memorandum of understanding to support the development and deployment of AI Gigafactories across the European Union.
Digital Omnibus: Netzpolitik.org reports in German on the varying reactions of Member States to the European Commission’s reform package.
Data retention: According to heise online, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Home Affairs will propose a new attempt at data retention in the course of next year.
Labour law: The European Commission has presented a roadmap for future-proof, high-quality jobs. A potential future legislative act could include regulations on algorithmic management and artificial intelligence in the workplace.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Strategic dependencies, resilience and competitiveness in EU supply chains at the firm level
- Youth and social media
- Horizon Europe 2028-2034: 10th EU research and innovation framework programme
- The 28th regime
- The economics of copyright and AI – Empirical evidence and optimal policy
- Search engines in times of Artificial Intelligence
- Vocational training
- The United Kingdom
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- Standardisation Regulation – revision (until 17.12.2025)
- Audiovisual media services – evaluation and update of EU Rules (until 21.12.2025)
- Review of the Digital Decade policy programme (until 23.12.2025)
- Geoblocking Regulation – evaluation (until 29.12.2025)
- AI regulatory sandboxes – rules for their set-up and operation (until 30.12.2025)
- European Digital Identity Wallets – user onboarding (until 30.12.2025)
- Law enforcement cooperation – new Europol regulation (proposal) (until 15.01.2026)
- European Research Area Act (until 23.01.2026)
- EU strategy on combating trafficking in human beings 2026-2030 (until 26.01.2026)
- Simplification – digital package and omnibus (until 02.02.2026)
- Product legislation – ensuring futureproof rules (revision of the New Legislative Framework – NLF) (until 04.02.2026)
- Defence – simplifying EU rules for defence and sensitive security procurement (until 17.02.2026)
- Cross-border judicial cooperation – revision of Eurojust Regulation (impact assessment) (until 24.02.2026)
- Skills portability, action 1 – facilitating worker mobility across the EU through skills transparency and digitalisation (until 27.02.2026)
- Digital fitness check – testing the cumulative impact of the EU’s digital rules (until 11.03.2026)
Selections of the Current Week, CW 50 (08-14.12.2025)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 21.12.2025 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Justice and Home Affairs Council, 12.2025, Agenda
- Competitiveness Council (Internal market and industry), 12.2025, Agenda
- Justice and Home Affairs Council, 12.2025, Agenda
- Competitiveness Council (Research and space), 12.2025, Agenda
- Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 12.2025, Agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 12.2025, Agenda
- FINANCIAL SERVICES ATTACHES, 12.2025, Agenda
- Political and Security Committee, 12.2025
- Committee on Cultural Affairs, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 12.2025, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 12.2025
- Audiovisual Working Party, 12.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 12.2025, Agenda
- Financial Services Committee (FSC), 12.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 12.2025, Agenda
- Trade Policy Committee (TPC) – Experts (Services and Investment), 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Competitiveness and Growth – Better regulation, 12.2025, Agenda
- Ad Hoc WP on prep. Council concl. on enhanc. prepared., resp. capability & resilience future crisis, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Sport, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Consumer Protection and Information, 12.2025, Agenda
- Visa Working Party, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Non-Proliferation and Arms Exports (Non-Proliferation and Disarment), 12.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 12.2025
- JHA INFORMATION EXCHANGE, 12.2025
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 12.2025, Agenda
- Security Committee, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Intellectual Property – Copyright, 12.2025, Agenda
- Ad Hoc Working Party On The Multiannual Financial Framework (European Competitiveness Fund), 12.2025
- Wp Foreign Relations Counsellors (Horizontal Files Field Of Ext. Relations (Horizontal Questions)), 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Technical Harmonisation, 12.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 12.2025, Agenda
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 11.12.2025 can be found here.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee can be found here.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
The agenda for the current meeting of the JURI Committee taking place on 11.12.2025 can be found here. From the perspective of the Internet industry, the following agenda item is relevant:
- The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 02.12.2025) 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.
