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Weekly European Agenda

Weekly European Agenda 27/02/2023

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27 February – 5 March 2023

Monday 27 January

Tuesday 28 February

Wednesday 1 March

Thursday 2 March

Friday 3 March

European Movement International

Friday 3 March

The future of participatory and deliberative democracy
On Friday, 3 March at 9:30 CET, the European Movement International will co-organise an event on the future of participatory and deliberarive democracy, alongside the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and Solidar, in cooperation with the EESC’s Ad hoc Group on Fundamental rights and the rule of law (FRRL) and the EESC’s Ad hoc Group on European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). The workshop will explore different models available of deliberative democracy and what civil society organisations are doing to advance and promote participatory and deliberative democracy at the national and European levels. It will also take stock of the CoFoE and be the occasion discuss the future of European citizens’ panels.   

More information about the event here.

More information about EMI events can be found here. 

Institutional Agendas

European Parliament

Monday 27 February

European Parliamentary week 2023 – Opening session: Economic and social challenges in times of geopolitical uncertainty
For the opening session of the European Parliamentary week 2023, parliamentarians will discuss the economic and social challenges in times of geopolitical uncertainty.

Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic
Debates: Exchange of views on the lessons learned and recommendations for the future with Commissioner for International Parnerships, Jutta Urpilanen; exchange of views with Executive Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner of Trade Valdis Dombrovskis.

Tuesday 28 February

Committee on Budgetary Control
Debates: Discharge 2021: Presentation of the Council recommendations by the Swedish Presidency; Large Transport Infrastructure Projects in the EU – implementation of projects & monitoring and control of EU funds; CONT mission to Interpol; Establishing the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act.
Votes: Guidelines for the 2024 Budget; General burdget of the EU – European Parliament, European Council and Council, European External Action Service, Court of Justice of the European Union, Court of Auditors, European Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Ombudsman, European Data Protection Supervisor, European Public Prosecutors Office.

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Debates: Workshop on Hemp in the CAP reform organised by Policy Department B; Labelling of organic pet food; Exchange of views with Pierre Vauthier; Packaging and packaging waste.

Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Debates: Public hearing: One Health; Presentation of the study ‘The European public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for future cross-border health threats’; COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future.

Committee on Foreign Affairs
Debates: Exchange of views with Besnik Bislimi, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo; Joint debate: Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Thailand, of the other part.
Vote: Recommendation to the Council taking stock of the functioning of the EEAS and for a stronger EU in the world.

Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Debates: Study on “Passerelle clauses in the EU Treaties – Opportunities for more flexible supranational decision-making”; Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning question time, the central rostrum, the blue-card procedure, the explanations of votes, the transparency register and the Ombudsman; Study on “The implementation of Article 31 of the Treaty on European Union and the use of Qualified Majority Voting”; implementation of “passerelle” clauses in the EU Treaties.
Votes: Implementation report on the Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU; Institutional relations between the EU and the Council of Europe.
Hearing: “The European Treaties’ implications for economic policy-making of the Member States”.

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Debates: Joint meeting with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Combating violence against women and domestic violence; Sexual harassment in the EU and MeToo evaluation.

Committee on Petitions
Debates: Mission report following the fact-finding visit to Germany from 3 to 4 November 2022 on the functioning of the “Jugendamt” (Youth Welfare Office).
Vote: Activities of the European Ombudsman – Annual Report 2021.

Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
Debates: Exchange of views; Hearing on “Geopolitics of Spyware II”; Exchange of views on Export of Spyware.

Special Committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation
Debate: “Setting Global Standards to Protect the Integrity of Information”. 
Public hearing: “Climate change disinformation – International disinformation impact on the EU’s climate goals”.

Wednesday 1 March

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debate: European Health Data Space.

Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Debate: Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on the occasion of International Women’s Day: Gender Aspects of Energy Poverty.

Committee on Transport and Tourism
Debate: Digital automatic coupling in rail freight transport. 

Committee on Culture and Education
Debates: Policy Department Workshop on the influence of social media on the development of children and young people; Protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings.
Votes: Guidelines for the 2024 Budget; The protection of journalists around the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter.

Committee on International Trade
Debates: Joint debate on WTO Fisheries Agreement; Trade pillar of the Communication “A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age”; Trade and investment aspects of the Joint Communication “The Global Gateway”; Trade aspects of sanctions on Russia; Export controls and economic security.

Committee on Fisheries
Debates: Commission Communication on the functioning of the Common Fisheries Policy; Commission Communication on the energy transition of the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector; Action Plan on marine ecosystems and sustainable and resilient fisheries.
Votes: Multiannual management plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Debate: exchange of views with Chair of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board.
Votes: Amending Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments; mending Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 as regards settlement discipline, cross-border provision of services, supervisory cooperation, provision of banking-type ancillary services and requirements for third-country central securities depositories; European Semester for economic policy coordination 2023.

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debates: Establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals; Exchange of views with the Commission on the future revision of the REACH regulation; EU action plan against wildlife trafficking and debriefing on the outcome of the COP19 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; Exchange of views with the Commission on the implementation of the Beating Cancer Plan and of the Non-Communicable Diseases Initiative.
Votes: Fluorinated greenhouse gases; Substances that deplete the ozone layer and repealing; Sustainable Carbon Cycles; Ensuring food security and long term resilience of the EU agriculture; Guidelines for the 2024 Budget; Objection pursuant to Rule 112 (2) and (3) authorising the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified oilseed rape.

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debates: The adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; Study: The Primacy of EU Law and the Polish Constitutional Law Judgment; LIBE Working Group on Schengen Scrutiny.
Votes: Amending Council Decision 2005/671/JHA, as regards its alignment with Union rules on the protection of personal data; Digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters, and amending certain acts in the field of judicial cooperation.

Joint meeting of Committee on Budgets and Committee on Budgetary Control
Debate: Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.

Subcommittee on Human Rights
Debates: Exchange of views on Ukrainian civilians illegally imprisoned and tortured in Russia and occupied territories of Ukraine; exchange of views on the violation of international law and human rights of children from Ukraine forcibly deported to or retained in Russia.

Subcommittee on Security and Defence
Public Hearing: In association with the Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China: “Growing military cooperation between Russia and China”.
Debate: State of play of the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine.

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Vote: European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and social priorities for 2023.

Committee on Budgets
Debate: Update of the financial programming 2024 – 2027.

Thursday 2 March

Subcommittee on Human Rights
Debates: Exchange of views with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel; Exchange of views with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel.
Public hearing: Conscientious objection as a human right and in particular, Russian conscientious objectors

Committee on International Trade
Public hearing: Building Resilient, Sustainable and Competitive Supply Chains in Critical Raw Materials.

Committee on Budgets
Debates: Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions in budget 2023 and 2024; Guidelines for the 2024 Budget.
Votes: Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund; Methods and procedure for making available own resources based on the Emissions Trading System, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and reallocated profits and on the measures to meet cash requirements.

Committee on Transport and Tourism
Debates: European Investment Bank’s (EIB) Climate roadmap on transport; Chinese investment in EU ports.

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debates: Collection and transfer of advance passenger information (API) for enhancing and facilitating external border controls; ollection and transfer of advance passenger information for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime; The experiences with fundamental rights of displaced persons from Ukraine – findings of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights; Study: COVID-19: an analysis of the anti-discrimination, diversity and inclusion dimensions in Council of Europe member States – presentation by the representative of the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI); State of play of the negotiations in view of an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on cross-border access to electronic evidence for judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debates: The sustainable use of plant protection products; Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Ensuring availability and affordability of fertilisers; Standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin intended for human application.

Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.

Council of Ministers

Monday 27 February

Informal meeting of telecommunications, transport, energy ministers
The programme includes three sessions: first session on energy, which will discuss energy market design and security of supply. Following is the first session on transport, which will discuss the future transport policy for a competitive and climate neutral Europe. The last agenda item is energy and transport policies for an accelerated transition of the transport sector beyond 2030, which will be a joint session.

Tuesday 28 February

Informal meeting of telecommunications, transport, energy ministers
The second day will include a second session on Energy, which will discuss future energy policy for industrial competitiveness in all Member States. The second session on Transport will go over implementing Fit for ’55: taking stock and sharing best practices. It will end with a study visit with test driving for heavy-duty vehicles.

Thursday 2 March

Competitiveness Council
EU ministers responsible for the internal market and industry will seek to adopt two Council positions on distance marketing of consumer financial services, and on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services.

An overview of planned Council meetings can be found here.

European Commission and High Representative

Monday 27 February

Šuica visits a child guarantee project
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will visit a child guarantee project in Međimurje.

Urpilainen participates in the EIB Group Forum 2023
Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen will participate in the EIB Group Forum 2023.

Sinkevičius gives a closing speech at the Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference
Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius will deliver a closing speech at the Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference.

Gabriel is on an official visit to Spain
Commissioner Maiya Gabriel will be in Madrid on an official visit.

Tuesday 28 February

von der Leyen meets with President of the Federation of German Industries and President of the Mouvement des Enterprises de France
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will meet with Siegfried Russwurm, President of the Federation of German Industries, and Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, president of the Mouvement des Enterprises de France.

Schinas delivers introductory remarks at the European Parliament
Vice-President Margaritis Schinas will deliver introductory remarks at an event on European Health Data space at the European Parliament.

Gentiloni participates in the Digital Euro Roundtable
Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni will participate in the Digital Euro Roundtable.

Šuica receives Minister for Regional Development and EU Funds
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will receive Šime Erlić, the Minister for Regional Development and EU Funds.

Wednesday 1 March

von der Leyen receives Secretary General of the Council of Europe
President Ursula von der Leyen will receive Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Šuica receives Eurochild President
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will receive Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Eurochild President.

Gabriel delivers an opening speech on “Repowering the EU with Hydrogen Valleys: showcasing innovative solutions”
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will deliver an opening speech on “Repowering the EU with Hydrogen Valleys: showcasing innovative solutions”.

Thursday 2 March

Urpilainen visits Finland and meets with Prime Minister of Finland
Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen will meet with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin.

Gabriel participates in the “National Day of Bulgaria celebration”
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will organise and participate in the “National Day of Bulgaria celebration”.

von der Leyen meets with Prime Minister of Sweden
President Ursula von der Leyen will meet with Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson in Stockholm, and she will participate in a working dinner with Prime Minister Kristersson and the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Friday 3 March

Schinas is in Greece and delivers a lecture at the National School of Defence
Vice-President Margaritis Schinas will deliver a lecture at the National School of Defense in Greece.

Gabriel holds a meeting with the European RoundTable of Industrialists
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will hold a meeting with the European RoundTable of Industrialists.

An overview of the Commission College can be found here; the Commissioners’ weekly activities can be found here; the agenda of upcoming College meetings can be found here; Commission events can be found here.

European Economic and Social Committee

Monday 27 February

Hearing on water policies and challenges named “Time for a Blue Deal”
A hearing on water policies and challenges will be held at the EESC, with a focus on the most pressing water-related challenges, and on what is the state of play regarding existing policies and actions.

EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform Annual Conference 2023
The EESC as well as the European Commission will host the 2023 sixth Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform Annual Conference 2023, and the focus will be on the role of the circular economy in driving recovery, open strategic autonomy and resilience.

Wednesday 1 March

Civil Society Days
Panel discussion: Facing threats and transformations for organized civil society in the EU and beyond.
Workshops: Can we democratice the European economy through the European Semester? Skills and lifelong learning for democratic societies; Civil society space, civil dialogue and funding of civil society.

Thursday 2 March

Civil Society Days
Workshops: CSO resilience against shrinking democratic space in the CEE; Volunteers and resilience; Digital participation and digital rights in the European public space: a focus on youth; Elections 2024: debating EU outside the capitals and the key role of organised civil society.

Friday 3 March

Civil Society Days
Workshops: The future of participatory and deliberate democracy.
Panel discussion: Organised Civil Society by 2050: Empowering our youth for today and tomorrow.

More information about EESC events can be found here.
The agendas of the different EESC meetings can be found here.

Committee of the Regions

Wednesday 1 March

132nd Commission for Financial and Administrative Affairs meeting
The Commission for Financial and Administrative Affairs will hold meeting number 132.

Friday 3 March

PES extraordinary Group meeting
There will be a PES extraordinary group meeting in the European Committee of the Regions.

More information about Committee of the Regions events can be found here. The agendas of the different Committee of the Regions meetings can be found here.

Swedish Presidency

Monday 27 February – Tuesday 28 February

High-level meeting: A gender equal economy in a society free from gender-based violence
This meeting is for politicians at ministerial level or state-secretary level from all Member States. The first day will focus on gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process and discussions to inform the draft Council conclusions that Sweden will present later during its Presidency. The second day will highlight a number of award-winning methods for the detection and prevention of men’s violence against women.

Living in the bioeconomy
The transition to a biobased economy is key for climate, jobs, growth and development in rural areas. The current challenges have further accentuated the need for renewable resources for a resilient Europe. In June 2022, the Commission presented its progress report on the implementation of EU Bioeconomy Strategy. During this conference, the Presidence will continue the discussions on policies and actions to take towards a sustainable, biobased society with resource-efficient value chains.

The agenda of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU can be found here.

European Central Bank

Monday 27 February

Lane speaks at an event on “Macro-Financial Stability in the EU: some lessons on the occasion of Fifty Years of Irish Membership of the EU”
Board Member Philipp Lane will give a lecture on “Macro-Financial Stability in the EU: some lessons on the occasion of Fifty Years of Irish Membership of the EU” at an event organised by the Consulate General of Ireland and Goethe Universität in Frankfurt.

Thursday 2 March

Schnabel speaks at Money Market Contact Group (MMCG) meeting in Frankfurt
Board Member Isabel Schnabel will speak at the Money Market Contact Group (MMCG) meeting in Frankfurt.

More information about ECB events can be found here. 

European Investment Bank

Monday 27 – Tuesday 28 February

EIB Group Forum 2023
The EIB is hosting its first ever EIB Group Forum with a goal of bringing together key voices from the public and private sector to discuss a range of issues, including social inequality, economic stability, digitalisation and the green transition.

The agenda of the EIB can be found here.

Council of Europe

Monday 27 February – Wednesday 1 March

Secretary General High-level visit to Brussels
Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić will go on an official visit to Brussels, where she will meet with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission High Representative and Vice-President in charge of co-ordinating the external action of the European Union Josep Borrell Fontelles, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová. The Secretary General and the Commissioner Várhelyi will inaugurate two major co-operation programmes between the European Union and the Council of Europe: Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye, and Partnership for Good Governance.

Thursday 2 – Friday 3 March

PACE Standing Committee to commemorate 75 years since the Congress of Europe in the Hague
Parliamentarians are due to debate reports on European solidarity in regards to asylum and international protection, on Cultural Routes as platforms for intercultural dialogue, on promoting online education and research across national borders, and on innovative approaches to sexual and reproductive health and crisis.

Find an overview of Council of Europe events here; the PACE diary here; the Congress calendar of events here; information on forthcoming judgments here; the calendar of hearings here; information on Venice Commission events here; the agenda of the Commissioner of Human Rights here; and the Chairmanship agenda 

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