News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 50 (08-14.12.2025)
Digital: On Monday, the first meeting of the Canada – European Union (EU) Digital Partnership Council took place. The joint declaration, together with the agreements on artificial intelligence and on digital credentials and trust services, can be downloaded here.
Digital Commons: The consortium for a European digital infrastructure, Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC EDIC), has been officially launched in The Hague. DC EDIC aims to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty by coordinating national efforts to develop open, interoperable and reusable digital solutions that can be shared across borders.
Virtual Worlds: The European Commission, together with the Virtual Worlds Association, has established the European Partnership for Virtual Worlds. The partnership aims to promote research, innovation, standardisation and skills development and to bring together all actors of the value chain. Between 2025 and 2027, the EU will provide €200 million under Horizon Europe and members of the Virtual Worlds Association will provide at least the same amount.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Enhancing EU defence investments
- Regulating influencer marketing in the European Union
- Strategic autonomy and European competitiveness: Security now comes first
- European green data – Implementation takeaways
- Cybersecurity Act review: What to expect
- Cloud and AI development act
- Health and safety at work
- Economic Dialogue with the European Commission on the launch of the 2026 European Semester cycle
- Justice programme 2028-2034
- Single market and customs programme
- Connecting Europe Facility 2028-2034: Financing EU infrastructure networks
- Information manipulation in the age of generative artificial intelligence
- Secure connectivity for LEO satellites in the EU
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)
- European Health Data Space Board operations (until 06.01.2026)
- Cybersecurity – repeal of Delegated Regulation supplementing the Radio Equipment Directive (until 07.01.2026)
- 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)
- Product legislation – ensuring futureproof rules (revision of the New Legislative Framework – NLF) (until 04.02.2026)
- Simplification – digital package and omnibus (until 09.02.2026)
- 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 51 (15-21.12.3035)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 28.12.2025 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
Preparatory Bodies:
- Politico-Military Group (PMG), 12.2025
- Antici Gr. (Simplification), 12.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN), 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Shipping, 12.2025, Agenda
- JHA COUNSELLORS, 12.2025
- Press Briefing Ahead Of General Affairs Council, 12.2025
- Press Conference Transport, Telecommunications And Energy Council, 12.2025
- COREPER II, 12.2025, Agenda
- WP on Hybrid Threats, 12.2025
- Working Party on Space, 12.2025, Agenda
- Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society, 12.2025, Agenda
- Press Conference General Affairs Council, 12.2025
- COREPER II, 12.2025
- Working Party on e-Justice, 12.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 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 (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:
- Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan
- Grids package and tackling raising energy prices through robust infrastructure
- European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs
- Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of work
- Preparation of the European Council meeting of 18-19 December 2025, in particular the need to support Ukraine, transatlantic relations and the EU’s strategic autonomy
- European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC)
- European Democracy Shield – very large online platform algorithms, foreign interference and the spread of disinformation
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 and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs taking place on 15.12.2025 can be found here.
The current timetables of the LIBE Committee for 2026 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 for 2026 can be found here.
The agenda for the current joint meeting of the ITRE Committee, the Committee on Security and Defence and the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, taking place on 15.12.2025, can be found here.
The agenda for the current meeting of the ITRE Committee and the Committee on International Trade, taking place on 15.12.2025, can be found here.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 09.12.2025) can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
The agenda for the current meeting of the IMCO Committee and the Committee on Security and Defence, taking place on 15.12.2025, can be found here.
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 03.12.2025) 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 for 2026 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 Opinion in the Gândul Media Network case (C-598/24) is scheduled for Thursday. The request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie (Romania) of 16 September 2024 concerns, among other things, the question of whether a text posted on a social network expressing an opinion on social practices considered inappropriate can be regarded as a work protected by copyright.
