Highlights of the November I plenary session included debates on the architecture and governance of the new 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework, and on the conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025. Further debates concerned Parliament's statement commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris; Council and Commission statements on the illegal unilateral declaration of the secessionist entity created by Türkiye in Cyprus and the continued Turkish military occupation; and protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Adopted in 1989, the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was the first international instrument to explicitly recognise children as human beings with innate rights. As of 2025, it has been ratified by 196 countries, including all EU Member States, and it has become the landmark treaty on children's rights, outlining universal standards for the care, treatment, survival, development, protection and participation of all children. The promotion and protection of children's rights is one of the key objectives embedded in Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). Moreover, Article 24 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU recognises that children are entitled to 'protection and care as is necessary for their well-being'. The same article recognises that the child's best interests should be the primary consideration for public authorities and private institutions. Over the years, the EU has moved from a sectoral approach towards a more coherent policy approach. Whereas initially, children's rights were developed in relation to specific areas – such as the free movement of persons – since 2000 the EU has taken a more coordinated line. The European Parliament has been especially vocal in advocating for children. This briefing offers an overview of the most relevant actions at European level to address and promote children's rights before looking at upcoming challenges. This briefing is an update of a 2022 briefing written by Rosamund Shreeves. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The EU is facing the challenge of mobilising massive investments required to meet its strategic priorities and must find effective ways to finance them. In response, the European Commission published the savings and investments union (SIU) action plan on 19 March 2025, designed to channel EU savings into productive investments. This briefing presents an overview of the plan. The SIU was launched in the context of the Draghi and Letta reports, which set out recommendations for strengthening the EU's single market and competitiveness. Announced in the Commission's Competitiveness Compass (the January 2025 roadmap to restore and boost the EU's economic dynamism), it places strong importance on mobilising private financing for key EU priorities such as innovation, digitalisation, defence and the green transition. The SIU seeks to further integrate the EU's financial system and make its capital markets more attractive to investors. The SIU is structured around four work strands. The first focuses on the demand side – savers and investors – promoting effective savings instruments that link citizens' savings with productive investments. The second targets the supply side by expanding financing options for firms. The remaining two strands aim to strengthen market infrastructure and advance supervisory convergence, which could, in specific areas, evolve towards a single supervisory framework. Key proposals include amendments to securitisation rules (ongoing), revised rules and products for supplementary pensions, and measures to improve financial market infrastructure. The SIU has received support from the European Parliament through its September 2025 resolution on EU competitiveness, which also makes some remarks and offers further directions for action. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The fourth summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) took place in Santa Marta, Colombia, on 9-10 November 2025. With the adoption of a joint declaration, the EU and CELAC sent a strong signal about defending multilateralism, cooperation and a rules-based international order. The partners agreed, among other things, to fight drug trafficking and organised crime through a new security alliance. The summit was partly overshadowed by the poor participation of leaders, the deadly United States (US) strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, and military threats by US President Donald Trump against Venezuela. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Les députés ont quasi unanimement supprimé la baisse de l'aide fiscale aux entreprises ultramarines. Dans sa copie initiale, le gouvernement prévoyait de limiter le dispositif aux investissements verts. C'est une « bonne nouvelle pour nos Outre-mer », se félicite le député Moerani Frébault.

Les douaniers essaient tous les jours de stopper la drogue avant qu’elle n’atteigne les foyers. À l’aéroport, sur les routes ou les quais, 133 agents sont mobilisés. Reportage en zone sous douane, rarement accessible aux médias.

This study provides a complementary impact assessment of the proposed Council directive on equal treatment outside of employment on the grounds of religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation. It covers all EU Member States. Moreover, it includes five case studies: Czechia, Germany, Italy, Romania and Sweden. It reviews the necessity of the proposed EU initiative and its added value, considering subsidiarity and proportionality. The study analyses the coherence of the proposed directive with existing and future frameworks and its likely effectiveness in achieving the objectives of increased protection and inclusion, and combating discrimination. It also assesses the proposal's likely costs and benefits. The findings suggest that the proposed directive responds to the need for EU action and complies with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. It is coherent with the existing legal and policy framework and would significantly strengthen fundamental rights and close the protection gap against discrimination. The proposed directive is expected to generate limited costs, mainly relating to reasonable accommodation in education, while delivering significant social and economic benefits, notably through improved access to goods and services. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea has failed to halt fisheries collapse, with four of the seven key stocks critically depleted. Conventional single-species reference points are inadequate under combined pressures from climate change, eutrophication and chronic assessment errors. This briefing highlights ecosystem reference points (ERPs), the ecosystem-adjusted fishing mortality FECO and complementary size- and age-based indicators, exploring how they could be developed in the Baltic Sea setting. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Demain s’ouvre la 10ème édition du salon des Tuamotu Gambier sur la place To’ata. 56 artisans venant de 11 îles des Tuamotu ont répondu présent. Bijoux en coquillages, décorations, et même abat-jours en fibres naturelles, toutes ces créations seront exposées au public jusqu’au 23 novembre.

Mareva Leu, déléguée générale du FIFO pendant des années, est décédée en Nouvelle-Zélande des suites de complications médicales. S'en sont suivies de nombreuses réactions. Une pluie d’hommages pour cette figure emblématique du FIFO et de façon plus générale, de la culture polynésienne et océanienne. Elle laisse derrière elle un grand vide.

Un tournant décisif dans les relations entre l'Australie et l'Indonésie selon le premier ministre australien. C'est ainsi que le chef du gouvernement de Canberra a qualifié l'accord de sécurité et de défense négocié entre les 2 pays. Une initiative majeure face à la montée des tensions en Asie-Pacifique.

« Quatre ans après, la traduction concrète d’une meilleure visibilité des Outre-mer reste très sommaire », souligne le texte de l’amendement

La chambre territoriale des comptes émet 8 recommandations, de la procédure de contrôle des titulaires de la carte professionnelle à un dispositif de prévention des conflits d'intérêt

L'accident a eu lieu en fin de matinée, sur la commune de Haapiti, sur la route de ceinture.

Une maison d’habitation a été entièrement détruite à la mi-journée après qu’un feu s'est déclenché pour une raison encore inconnue.

The Peace pillar – The European Union (EU) is a long-standing and active partner for peace and governance in Africa, providing both substantial financial and operational support. Cooperation between the EU and Africa in the area of peace and security promotes Africa's ownership – the principle of 'African solutions to African problems' – and recognises the African Union as a central player in this field. EU common security and defence policy missions and operations, together with the European Peace Facility and the Global Europe instrument, back African peace operations, mediation efforts and institutional capacity building. However, this partnership faces increasing challenges from regional fragmentation, shifting alliances, and intensifying geopolitical competition on the continent. This publication is part of a series on the Africa-EU partnership and its four pillars: Prosperity (economy and connectivity; natural resources, health, research and education), Peace (security and governance), People (migration and mobility) and Planet (multilateralism). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

During the November I plenary session, Parliament will vote its position on the Commission proposal of 2 July 2025 to amend the European Climate Law. The proposal seeks to ensure a cost-efficient and realistic pathway to climate neutrality by 2050, by setting an intermediate EU emissions reduction target for 2040. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

On 30 July 2025, the European Commission published a proposal for a European fisheries and aquaculture statistics (EFAS) regulation. The proposed regulation modernises and streamlines the legal framework for EU fisheries and aquaculture statistics by repealing five existing regulations whose provisions date back around 30 years. Aside from providing legal simplification, the proposal expands the statistical coverage, reduces the volume of data flagged as confidential, and addresses data inconsistencies. A significant change is the reuse of information from existing EU databases. This includes the reuse of data on catches, collected as part of the fisheries control system, rather than asking Member States for this information again. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Austria's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) was updated for the second time on 8 July 2025. The plan totals €4 187 million, of which €3 961 million is financed through Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) grants and the difference through national resources. To implement the plan, Austria is leveraging further amounts beyond EU support from the national budget. The Austrian economy has been in a slowdown since the end of the second quarter of 2022. A lack of expansionary impetus both domestically and abroad led to a decline in economic output in 2023 and 2024. According to recent estimates, Austrian gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow slightly (by 0.3 %-0.4 %) in 2025 and by 1.2 % in 2026. In Austria's NRRP, 56 % of EU resources are allocated to the green transition, and 36 % to the digital transformation. The plan includes a significant number of reforms with the potential to support lasting structural changes in other areas, such as the primary healthcare system, less red tape for business, and modernisation of the public administration. By the end of October 2025, Austria had received €2 812 million in pre-financing and two result-based payments, which is above the current EU average (56.4 %). Following a positive assessment, the third payment should be disbursed soon. This briefing is one in a series covering all EU Member States. Fourth edition. The 'NGEU delivery' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the lifecycle of the plans. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

This report, requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, examines EU progress on implementing UN CRPD Article 19. It synthesises the EU's 2015 and 2025 UN CRPD reviews, assesses implications of the proposed Multiannual Financial Framework 2028-2034 and evaluates Member States' efforts on deinstitutionalisation. Despite policy advances, institutionalisation, inadequate community-based services and lack of meaningful consultation persist. Clear definitions, a minimum dataset and CRPD-compliant investments are among the measures required to realise Article 19. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Figure discrète mais essentielle du monde culturel polynésien, la déléguée générale du Fifo, chercheuse et éditrice, Mareva Leu est décédée en Nouvelle-Zélande le 11 novembre. Elle aurait eu 44 ans le 25 novembre prochain.

À Mataiea, les pereo’o faraoa sont devenus une institution. Tous les matins ou presque, ils sillonnent les différents quartiers de la commune afin de livrer pains et autres viennoiseries. Relancés pendant le Covid, le service a rencontré un tel succès qu'il ne s’est jamais arrêté. Mieux, les commerces ambulants se développent au-delà de la boulangerie.

À peine arrivée dans l'Hexagone, l'AS Pirae s'est mise au travail. C'est du côté du centre d'entraînement de Lisses, en grande banlieue parisienne, que les hommes de Vatea Terai se préparent pour leur déplacement en Coupe de France, samedi 15 novembre prochain, sur le terrain du Carnoux FC, formation de Nationale 3.

Après l'attaque de requin survenue dimanche dernier à Ua Pou, aux Marquises, l'heure est aux questions. Les morsures de requins restent globalement rares et peu graves, en Polynésie. Toutefois, l'activité humaine contribue à attirer les squales.

Vahine Fierro, Tya Zebrowski et Kauli Vaast viennent de participer à un stage intensif de préparation à Surf Abu Dhabi, « l’un des meilleurs bassins à vagues de la planète », d’après la Fédération française de surf. Une préparation sérieuse en vue des JO de Los Angeles, mais les champions polynésiens n’ont pas oublié de s’amuser…

« Rien n’est encore acquis, mais ces avancées marquent une reconnaissance des besoins et des réalités ultramarines » : c’est ainsi que la députée Mereana Reid Arbelot présente les trois amendements pris en commission à l’Assemblée nationale en faveur des Outre-mers. Il est question notamment de la création d’un centre de désintoxication en Polynésie française.

African and European Heads of State or Government will meet in Luanda (Angola) on 24 and 25 November 2025 for the Seventh European Union (EU)-African Union Summit. The Africa-EU partnership faces significant challenges, including global geopolitical shifts and shrinking development finance. Central to the EU's new approach, the Global Gateway strategy aims to mobilise €150 billion by 2027 to boost Africa's digital connectivity, transport infrastructure, and energy transition. However, questions remain over ownership and whether African priorities are genuinely reflected. To ensure the partnership remains effective, it must deliver on the commitments made at the 2022 summit and strengthen accountability mechanisms. This means addressing persistent challenges in implementation, such as lack of coordination, inconsistent reporting, and data gaps. The European Parliament has consistently advocated for a people-centred partnership that genuinely benefits both Europeans and Africans. This briefing provides an insight into the broad context that will set the scene for discussions. Detailed specifics of the four pillars of the partnership are discussed in separate publications: Prosperity (economy and connectivity; natural resources, health, research and education), Peace (security and governance), People (migration and mobility) and Planet (multilateralism). It is crucial for the next summit to embody a partnership of equals, supporting sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for both continents. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The Prosperity pillar (1/2) – Africa's economic transformation is central to the partnership between Africa and the EU. Unlocking the continent's potential is not only key to its own development but also to boosting global competitiveness for both Africa and Europe. This requires reducing investment risks, strengthening regional value chains, and supporting intra-African trade. Progress depends on improving the mobilisation of domestic resources and addressing unsustainable debt levels. Expanding both physical and digital infrastructure and services across the continent is also key to achieving this transformation. This publication is part of a series on the Africa-EU partnership and its four pillars: Prosperity (economy and connectivity; natural resources, health, research and education), Peace (security and governance), People (migration and mobility) and Planet (multilateralism). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Prosperity pillar (2/2) – Youth and natural resources are key assets for Africa and its partnership with the European Union. To harness these assets, Africa and its European partners need to address climate-related challenges, energy poverty, health system gaps and education shortfalls. Joint initiatives are under way in all these areas; however, the Seventh European Union -African Union Summit will have to tackle asymmetries and tensions over differing priorities. This publication is part of a series on the Africa-EU partnership and its four pillars: Prosperity (economy and connectivity; natural resources, health, research and education), Peace (security and governance), People (migration and mobility) and Planet (multilateralism). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Funding for the fishing sector is one of the oldest components of the EU fisheries policy. The current programme is the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF), which is worth EUR 6.108 billion over the 2021-2027 period. The EMFAF aims to support sustainable fishing in order to achieve food security through the supply of seafood products, the growth of a sustainable blue economy and healthy, safe and sustainably managed seas and oceans. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

European groupings of territorial cooperation (EGTCs) were set up to facilitate cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation between Member States or their regional and local authorities. EGTCs enable these partners to implement joint projects, share expertise and improve coordination of spatial planning. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The purpose of the EU PEACE PLUS programme is to support peace and reconciliation and to promote social, economic and regional stability and cooperation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Following the adoption of various items of EU legislation, both international and cabotage road haulage and passenger transport services have been gradually liberalised. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Le bulletin de veille sanitaire l'annonce : l'épidémie de dengue est finie en Polynésie française. Les indicateurs sont à très faible niveau, avec un nombre de cas déclarés inférieur au seuil épidémique depuis au moins deux semaines consécutives.

Comment expliquer l’attaque de requin d'hier, à Ua Pou ? Les pêcheurs de l’île en témoignent : il y a une prolifération de squales dans l’archipel en ce moment. « C’est un phénomène qu’on ne comprend pas », rapporte le premier adjoint au maire, Georges Toti Teikiehuupoko.