593rd Plenary session — 22-23 Jan 2025

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Event type
Plenary Session

Location

Brussels
Belgium

593rd plenary session, with the following debates and guests:

  • The EU’s Southern Neighbourhood, with Princess Rym Ali, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation, Dubravka Šuica, European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Nasser Kamel, Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean and Eliane El Haber, youth representative for the opinion REX/583, advisor at the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goal 4 Youth & Student Network and project officer at the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, linked to the adoption of the opinion REX/583 Youth involvement in social and civil dialogue in the Mediterranean region, at 10:15 on Thursday 23 January 2025 
  • Artificial intelligence at the workplace, with Roxana Mînzatu, European Commission Executive Vice-President, Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Katarzyna Nowakowska, Deputy Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy of Poland and Janine Berg, senior economist, International Labour Organization, Switzerland, linked to the adoption of the opinion SOC/803 Pro-worker AI: levers for harnessing the potential and mitigating the risks of AI in connection with employment and labour market policies, at 9:00 on Thursday 23 January 2025
  • Ensuring a sustainable and just transition through people-centred climate and biodiversity action with Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director-General of the Environment Department of the European Commission (tbc), Hans Bruyninckx, Professor of Environmental Governance, University of Antwerp and former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), Friedrich Wulf, international biodiversity policy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, Anabella Rosemberg, senior advisor on just transition, Climate Action Network (CAN) International, Pegah Moulana, Secretary-General of the Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), Dirk Bergrath, rapporteur of the opinion NAT/933 Towards a just transition legislative proposal and EU policy tools that enable a more social European Green Deal, adopted in December 2024 and Maurizio Reale, President of the EESC Sustainable Development Observatory at 11:45 on Thursday 23 January 2025 

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

The 24 language versions of the opinions, information reports and resolutions adopted will be available as soon as they have been received from translation.