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What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report
From · draft committee report· 9 Sept 2025
on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025
To · plenary report· 8 Jan 2026
on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025
AI:What changed, in short
The report expands significantly, adding many new recitals and paragraphs on topics like funding cuts, UN financial crisis, gender equality, and digital surveillance.451012 It strengthens language on multilateralism, international justice, and support for the ICC and UN, with new calls for EU unity and reform.672224 It adds many new calls on specific human rights issues, including freedom of religion, corporate accountability, and protection of HRDs.15171821 The other changes are mostly wording and formal updates, such as rephrasing and adding references to Articles 2 and 21 TEU.1238
26 changes of substance · 0 formal · 7 of wording only
Written by AI from the two texts only · read the changes before relying on it · 4 Sept 2026 · Report a problem
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Part 5 of 5: EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
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Each year, the European Parliament adopts three annual reports on the EU’s foreign, security and defence, and human rights policies.
The three reports are on:
• the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy - annual report 2025 (based on the report of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy to the European Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy) - competence of the AFET Committee,
• Human Rights and Democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2025 (based on the EU Annual report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World) - competence of the DROI Subcommittee, and
• the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy - annual report 2025 (based on the report of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy to the European Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy) - competence of the SEDE Committee.
These reports monitor and assess the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, including the EU policy on Human Rights and the Common Security and Defence Policy. They are a key component of the European Parliament’s contribution to EU foreign policy making, most notably in regard to the strengthened right of scrutiny conferred to the European Parliament by the Treaty of Lisbon. It is essential that the European Parliament respond to the annual reports issued by other institutions as soon as they are published.
This report focuses on the most salient trends in challenges to human rights and democracy, and on an evaluation of the EU external policy tools that aim to ensure that the Union and its Member States promote and protect the universality and the indivisibility of human rights around the world.
This report contributes to the ongoing preparations for a new Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy for the post-2027 period by evaluating the current EU toolbox in the field of human rights and democracy and providing its recommendations to the other EU institutions for further developing it.