Agenda - 596th plenary session - April 2025

PLENARY SESSION April 2025 Draft agenda Plenary session No 596 Date 29-30/4/2025 Venue European Commission Room Charlemagne building (Alcide De Gasperi room) First day of plenary session 29/4/2025, 14:30 – 18:30 Second day of plenary session 30/4/2025, 9:00 – 13:00 DEBATES 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, Corapporteur 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...