Plenary sessions

588th plenary session, with the following guests: Bora Muzhaqi, Minister for Youth and Children of Albania, Biliana Sirakova, EU Youth Coordinator, Elias Dray, Vice-President of the EU Youth Forum, Katrīna Leitāne, President of the EESC Youth Group and youth representatives – Anne Fort, Head of Unit for Defence Industrial Policy, EC Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), Tania Latici, Political Officer – Peace, Security and Defence, European External Action Service; Associate fellow at the Egmont Institute and Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Pietro De Lotto, President of the CCMI – Vasco Cordeiro, President of the CdR, Elisa Ferreira, EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Chair of the Group of High-Level Specialists on the Future of Cohesion Policy – Dubravka Šuica, EC's Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Marie-Colline Leroy, Belgian State Secretary for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity, Emmanuel Achiri, representative from the EU Network Against Racism, Janelle Rizzo and a second representative of the EU Citizens Panel on Tackling Hatred in Society – László Andor, Sec. Gen. of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Jarosław Pietras, former Polish Secretary of State in charge of EU accession, Dr. Tinatin Akhvlediani, Research Fellow in the EU Foreign Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Štefan Füle, Former EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Chairman of the EU Policy Center (EPC) Task Force on enlargement

You will be able to follow the debates by web streaming. Web streaming

587th Plenary session, with the following guests: 

Ana Gallego Torres, Director General, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST), Ken Godfrey, Executive Director of the European Partnership for Democracy, Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs; Maive Rute, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW); Lanfranco Fanti, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli; Florence Raes, Director of UN Women Brussels, Mary Collins, Secretary General of the European Women's Lobby, Ilaria Todde, Advocacy Director of the Eurocentralasian Lesbian Community and Sif Holst, President of the EESC Equality Group.

586th plenary session, with the following guests: Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights and Karine Lalieux, Belgian Minister of Pensions and Social Integration, in charge of Persons with Disabilities, Combating Poverty and Beliris, Marilyn Neven, Thierry Beaudet, Zornitsa Roussinova, Christelle Savall, Hendrik Nahr, and Brikena Xhomaqi; Enrico Letta; Ajith Sunghay and Sergio Cecchini. 

585th plenary session with the following guests: Maroš Šefčovič, EC Executive VP for European Green Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight; Dubravka Šuica, VP of EC and Commissioner for Democracy and Demography and Tatiana Molcean, Under-Secretary General of the UN, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania and Milojko Spajić, Prime Minister of Montenegro.

584th plenary session, with the following guests: Pierre-Yves Dermagne, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Employment, Belgium, David Clarinval, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Middle Classes, the Self-Employed, SMEs, Agriculture, Institutional Reforms & Democratic Renewal, Belgium, Tinne Van der Straeten, Minister of Energy, Belgium.

583rd plenary session: Celebration of the 65th anniversary of the European Economic and Social Committee; The Conclusions of the Spanish Presidency of the EU; Global climate commitments: reflecting on the outcomes of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP28. Web streaming

582^nd plenary session, with the following guests: Evelyn Regner, Vice-President of the European Parliament and Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Equality, Pernille Weiss, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the MEP Water Group. Web streaming

581^st plenary session with the following guests: Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budget and Administration, and Margarida Marques, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets, Elise Fleury, ECI organiser, Campaign Lead, Eurogroup for Animals, and Tilly Metz, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the subcommittee on Public Health -  Web streaming

580th plenary session  LIVE streaming - With the following guests: Dorin Recean, Prime Minister of Moldova, Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Majlinda Bregu, SG of the Regional Cooperation Council, Dubravka Šuica, VP for Democracy and Demography, and Dr Heidrun Mollenkopf, Pres. of the AGE Platform Europe

579th Plenary with the following guests: Bram DE WISPELAERE, deputy chief of staff, Belgian Ministry for Energy, and Pedro LINARES, Higher Technical School of Engineering (ICAI), María Rodriguez, president of the European Youth Forum; Agata Meysner, president of Generation Climate Europe, and Mireia Nadal Chiva, CEO of ReDI School of Digital Integration/Friends of Europe.