What Katarina spoke about.

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Delegated acts (Rule 114(6)) (action taken)

No objections were raised to the recommendation for a decision not to object to a delegated act submitted by the INTA Committee, which was announced in plenary on Monday 7 July, within the 24 hour period. In accordance with Article 114(6), the Recommendation is therefore deemed to have been adopted and will be published with the texts adopted.

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Composition of committees and delegations

A few messages follow. The ESN Group has forwarded decisions on changes to appointments in committees and delegations to the President. These decisions will be recorded in the minutes of today's meeting and will enter into force on the day of this announcement.

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2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

The debate is thus closed.

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2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

If I have just rightly understood that you refer to colleagues as criminals: I will pass this on for review. After all, we want to treat each other respectfully.

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2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

Dear colleague, do you accept another blue card from Mr Oliveira?

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State of play of implementation of the European Media Freedom Act in the Member States (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. "Democracy dies in the dark" said US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward. The light that protects democracy is the free media. Without journalists and independent journalists, there is no effective control of politics and the economy. Without them, the line between fact and fake blurs to the point of unrecognizability. Especially in times when many believe that information can be obtained for free. With young people, TikTok and YouTube have become the most important information channels, where you naturally get something. Whether you can even call it information is on another page. The European Media Freedom Act This is a big step towards more transparency and more independence. As a member of the Pegasus Committee of Inquiry, I am particularly proud that we have succeeded in enshrining the protection against spyware such as Pegasus in it. In a month's time, the Freedom of the Media Act will finally come into force. It is important that Member States apply it and that the Commission cracks down on infringements. Never before has a free, independent press been as important as it is today.

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2025

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Adjournment of the session

I declare the session of the European Parliament adjourned.

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Dates of the next part-session

The next part-session will take place in Strasbourg from 7 to 10 July 2025.

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Approval of the minutes of the sitting and forwarding of texts adopted

The minutes of this meeting will be submitted to Parliament for approval at the beginning of the next meeting. If there are no objections, I will forward the resolutions adopted at today's sitting to the persons and bodies referred to in those resolutions.

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2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (B10-0277/2025)

We now come to the explanations of vote on the Clean Industry Deal.

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (A10-0091/2025 - Anna Stürgkh)

We now come to the explanations of coordination on electricity grids as the backbone of the EU energy system.

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Oral explanations of vote (Rule 201)

The next item on the agenda is the explanations of vote.

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Protecting bees: advancing the EU's New Deal for Pollinators (debate)

The debate is closed.

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2025

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Protecting bees: advancing the EU's New Deal for Pollinators (debate)

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the Commission statement on promoting the new EU deal for pollinators to protect bees (2025/2745(RSP)).

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2025

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Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

The minutes of yesterday's meeting and the texts adopted are available. Are there any objections to this? That is not the case. The minutes have therefore been approved.

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The United Kingdom accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (B10-0273/2025) (vote)

The following vote concerns the accession of the United Kingdom to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (see point 5.7 of the Protocol).

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Clean Industrial Deal (B10-0277/2025, B10-0278/2025) (vote)

The following vote concerns the Clean Industry Deal (see point 5.6 of the Protocol).

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Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (A10-0091/2025 - Anna Stürgkh) (vote)

The following vote concerns electricity grids as the backbone of the EU energy system (see point 5.5 of the Protocol).

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Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability (A10-0104/2025 - Veronika Vrecionová) (vote)

The following vote concerns the welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability (see point 5.4 of the Protocol).

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Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali (RC-B10-0291/2025, B10-0281/2025, B10-0291/2025, B10-0292/2025, B10-0293/2025, B10-0294/2025, B10-0297/2025, B10-0298/2025) (vote)

The following vote concerns the dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali (see point 5.3 of the Protocol).

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Case of Ahmadreza Jalali in Iran (RC-B10-0284/2025, B10-0280/2025, B10-0284/2025, B10-0285/2025, B10-0286/2025, B10-0296/2025, B10-0299/2025, B10-0300/2025) (vote)

The following vote concerns the case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran (see point 5.2 of the Protocol).

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Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli (RC-B10-0282/2025, B10-0282/2025, B10-0283/2025, B10-0287/2025, B10-0288/2025, B10-0289/2025, B10-0290/2025, B10-0295/2025) (vote)

The following vote concerns media freedom in Georgia, in particular the case of Msia Amaghlobeli (see point 5.1 of the Protocol).

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2025

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Voting time

The next item on the agenda is the voting session.

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2025

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

Now, the thing was that the PiS government changed a lot of organisational procedure to elect only judges close to PiS to the Constitutional Court. Now, the Constitutional Court is 100 % loyal to PiS. The current government is trying to change that, but the president can come in with a veto – so there is no possibility for the current government to change this. Now, do you want to punish a government that wants to change it? It is not my party – my party is a very small part of this government. But this government is not trying to make it 100 % a loyal Constitutional Court, as your government did.

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The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen! Democracy thrives on people knowing what is going on, both in their country and internationally. Today came the news: 71% of Germans actively avoid news. I see it as a reflex: There are bad headlines every day, you sometimes want to pull the blanket over your head. But then what happens? Switching off often means being on social media. Then there are many entertaining snippets waiting, of which you do not even notice that information is also to be transported and transported, just often not fact-based, but mood-mongering, often enough totally detached from every reality. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon said:Flood the zone with shit“. And what happens then, what effects this can have, can be seen in the USA, if you look at how many people in the USA now believe that the earth is a disk. It works. That is why it is so important that the Commission, in its Rule of Law Report, also looks very closely at where the media are concerned, especially in the area of disinformation and hate campaigns, but not only there.