Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP/Renew) must continue to be patient as SEDE chairwoman. The planned upgrading of her Subcommittee on Security and Defense to a full committee is now to take place in the new year and no longer this autumn. The new target date is Jan. 1, according to the EU Parliament. The reason for the delay is that they now want to concentrate on the hearings and wait for confirmation from the next Commission.