596th Plenary session — Tu 29 - We 30 Apr 2025

596th plenary session, with the followinfg guests and debates (tbc):

• Mid-term review of cohesion policy, with Raffaele Fitto, European Commission Executive-Vice-President for Cohesion and Reforms, linked to opinion ECO/676 on the Cohesion policy mid-term review (2025), at 15:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2025.
• EU foreign policy in a new geopolitical reality, with Iratxe García Pérez and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Members of the European Parliament; Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive and Chief Economist at the European Policy Centre; and Pierre Haroche, Associate Researcher of Defence at the Institute Jacques Delors and Senior Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille, at 16:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2025.
• Democracy and digitalisation, with Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, Co-rapporteur on the Artificial Intelligence Act; Iverna McGowan, Advisor on Technology and Human Rights at the Office of the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights; Udbhav Tiwari, Vice-President for Strategy and Global Affairs at Signal Foundation; Marthe Nagels, Head of Participatory Democracy at Make.org; and Alina Radu, Director of the investigative newspaper Ziarul de Gardă in the Republic of Moldova, at 17:15 on Tuesday 29 April 2025.
• The road to the next multiannual financial framework linked to the adoption of opinion ECO/662 on The road to the next multiannual financial framework, at 9:30 on Wednesday 30 April 2025.