European Democracy Shield: tackling foreign interference online
With an oral question to Democracy Commissioner Michael McGrath, MEPs are set to demand an investigation into whether major online platforms’ ‘recommender systems’ are undermining democracy and violating EU digital rules. Recent elections have shown how these systems can amplify disinformation and foreign propaganda, potentially skewing civic discourse and electoral outcomes. The debate starts at around 10.00.
Yasmina YAKIMOVA
(+32) 470 88 10 60
Kyriakos KLOSIDIS
(+32) 470 96 47 35
Ensuring rule of law breaches do not endanger the EU budget Following their debate yesterday, MEPs will vote at noon on a draft report assessing nearly five years of implementation of the rule of law conditionality mechanism. The system was designed to ensure rule of law breaches do not endanger the EU budget. Among other proposals, MEPs want it to be easier to activate the mechanism. They also want more transparency and improved protection for the final beneficiaries of EU funding.
Janis KRASTINS
(+371) 26 54 23 69
@EP_BudgControl
Eszter ZALÁN
(+32) 477 99 20 73
@EP_Budgets
In brief
Thirtieth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement. First on today’s agenda is a debate, at 9.00, with Commissioner Michael McGrath to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing, in Paris, of the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War.
Violent attacks against humanitarian workers and journalists. Rounding off the last plenary session of 2025, from 15.00 MEPs and Commissioner McGrath will debate the dramatic global rise in violent attacks on aid workers and journalists.
Votes
At noon, MEPs will vote, among others, on:
- a resolution on the continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania;
- motions for resolutions on: the arbitrary arrest and sentencing of academics Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov in Azerbaijan; the mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary’s Catholic school in Papiri; and the grave political situation in Guinea-Bissau after the coup of 26 November;
- a report on the decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries; and
- the appointment of a member of the Executive Board of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA).
Live coverage of the plenary session can be found on Parliament’s webstreaming site and on EbS+.
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