10-10-2018 14:30
Interparliamentary Committee Meeting - The Future of Europe
On Wednesday 10 October, from 14:30 to 18:30, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs will hold an ICM entitled "State of the debate on the future of Europe". The main aim of this ICM is to allow MEPs and MPs to discuss together in view to assess institutional and political evolutions that have followed the adoption of Parliaments resolutions of 16 February 2017, on "Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty" (Bresso/Brok report),
The debate will be opened with Statements by the AFCO Chair Ms Hübner, Juliane Bogner-Strauß, on behalf of the Austrian Council Presidency, the Commissioner Věra Jourová and the two Chairs on EU affairs of the Austrian Parliament, Christian Buchmann and Reinhold Lopatka. Mr Joaquín Almunia, former Vice President of the Commission will be the invited expert to address to national MPs. The Presidents of the EESC, Luca Jahier, and of the CoR, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, will also intervene.
The AFCO Rapporteur Ramón Jáuregui and the ECON Rapporteur for an opinion Ivana Maletić will present their proposals.
- Draft Programme (PDF - 827 KB)
- Invitation letter (EN) (PDF - 21 KB)
- Invitation letter (FR) (PDF - 23 KB)
- EP Relations with National Parliaments
- EPRS Briefing "Future of Europe debates"
- EP resolution of 16 February 2017 on improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty (2014/2249(INI))
- EP resolution on possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union
- EP resolution of 16 February 2017 on budgetary capacity for the euro area (2015/2344(INI))
- European Commission Web page on the Future of Europe
- European Council Political reflection on the future of the European Union
- Thematic Digest on the state of debate on the Future of Europe (supporting analyses from Parliament's Policy Departments)
- Photos of the Interparliamentary Committee Meeting