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  1. Highlights - High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU - Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union

    High Level Event on the Housing Crisis in the EU
    On 5 May 2026, the European Parliament's Special Committee on the Housing Crisis (HOUS) and the European Commission will jointly host a high-level event on the housing crisis in the European Union, bringing together policymakers, civil society, financial institutions and citizens to turn political commitments into concrete action.

    The event follows the opening conference of March 2025 and marks a decisive shift from diagnosis to implementation: Parliament adopted its resolution on the EU housing crisis in plenary on 11 March 2026, while the Commission presented its first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan (COM(2025)1025) in December 2025.

    Running from 09:00 to 12:30, the morning will be structured around three thematic panels on financing the housing transition, areas under housing stress and the construction sector, and housing and young people. Parliament President Roberta Metsola will address participants via video message. Committee Chair Irene Tinagli and Commissioner Dan Jørgensen will open and close the event respectively.

    The event is designed to foster genuine dialogue between MEPs, policymakers, civil society and citizens, and will serve as a preparatory forum ahead of the first EU Housing Summit, expected later in 2026 under the Irish Presidency.


    Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

  2. Newsletters - May 2026 - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development


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  3. Highlights - BUDG-CONT debate with EESC/CoR on performance framework regulation – 05.05.2026 - Committee on Budgets

    A stack of colorful euro banknotes (including €50, €100, €200, and €500 bills) is held together by a small metal lock.
    The Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) will hold an exchange of views with the European Economic and the Social Committee (EESC) and European Committee of the Regions (CoR) on establishing a budget expenditure tracking and performance framework and other horizontal rules for the Union programmes and activities, on 5 May 2026.

    The EU budget's performance framework comprises the systems and tools designed to ensure that Union spending delivers the intended results, and to monitor and report on the extent to which the budget achieves its objectives. The Commission's proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) aims to consolidate the performance provisions currently dispersed across the rules governing more than 50 programmes under the 2021-2027 period.

    As provided for in Article 300 TFEU, the Parliament, the Council and the Commission are assisted in their work by the EESC and the CoR, which perform advisory functions. The EESC and the CoR will present the perspectives of regional and local authorities, as well as those of employers, workers and civil society. As both are currently preparing their opinions on the proposed performance regulation, this exchange will provide timely input and contribute to Parliament's ongoing work on the performance framework for the next MFF.

    Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

  4. Highlights - Vote in CONT: Opinion on EPPO and OLAF access to VAT information at Union level - Committee on Budgetary Control

    Three wooden blocks stacked vertically spell “VAT.” A curved blue arrow behind them points upward, suggesting value-added tax evasion.
    On 5 May 2026, the CONT Committee will vote on the draft opinion to the ECON Committee on their report about the access of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to value added tax information at Union level. This amending regulation is the first building block of the Anti-Fraud Architecture revision anticipated in the Commission's White Paper in July 2025.

    Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

  5. Highlights - Justice programme and 28th Regime - Committee on Legal Affairs

    Image of Justice holding a scale; in the background there are modern buildings; one of the buildings bears on the whole façade the EU flag
    On 4-5 May 2026, the Members of the JURI Committee will meet jointly with LIBE Committee to present the draft report on Establishing the Justice programme for the period 2028-2034 (2025/0255(COD)). At the same meeting, Members will hear the presentation of the 28th Regime proposal by Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath.

    The Committee will also consider the amendments to the opinion on Establishment of European Business Wallets (2025/0358(COD)). Subsequently, JURI Members will consider the draft recommendation on the Conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Council of Europe Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law (2025/0244(NLE)), followed by the consideration of the draft report Authorising Member States to accept, in the interests of the European Union, the accession of Cabo Verde to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (2026/0041(NLE)). THe meeting will finalize with the votes on an opinion on the legal basis to a TRAN legislative dossier (2025/0407(COD)).

    Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP