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  1. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Commission Right to Stay Strategy and hearing closure

    The Commission outlines the forthcoming Right to Stay Strategy and integrated National Regional Partnership Programmes, defending flexible use of ERDF and ESF+, after which the Chair closes by linking the debate to post‑2027 cohesion discussions and a REGI mission report from southern Italy that highlights project results and concerns over centralisation in the new programming period.

    In this chapter

    1. Commission – outline of upcoming Right to Stay Strategy
    2. Closing of hearing and report on REGI mission to PugliaDragoş Benea

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  2. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Second panel MEP Q&A on governance and indicators

    MEPs probe the feasibility of integrated funding frameworks, territorial antennas and qualitative monitoring, and ask how to convert women’s associative power into formal decision‑making, with speakers detailing governance reforms, legal instruments like Spain’s Statute of Rural Women, and funding priorities to make staying a real choice for young women.

    In this chapter

    1. Second panel – MEP questions on integrated funds and rural women’s rightsElena Nevado del Campo
    2. Second panel – MEP questions on monitoring, power and industrial changeValentina Palmisano
    3. Parisi – detailed answers on territorial antennas and qualitative monitoring
    4. López – answers on governance, statutes and funding prioritiesDragoş Benea

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  3. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Second panel concepts and Spanish cohesion demands

    An expert reframes the right to stay through a relational, anthropological lens and proposes new knowledge, welfare and indicator systems, while FADEMUR presents evidence of shifting rural female migration patterns and advances concrete gender‑focused requirements for the next MFF and cohesion architecture.

    In this chapter

    1. Second panel – anthropological reframing of the right to stay
    2. Second panel – proposals on knowledge, welfare and indicatorsDragoş Benea
    3. Spain – FADEMUR on reversing rural female depopulation
    4. Spain – critique of future MFF and five cohesion proposalsDragoş Benea

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  4. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    First panel MEP Q&A on funding and local leadership

    MEPs from several groups question the first panel on rural women’s access to EU and national funding, demographic renewal, women’s networks, cohesion and CAP design post‑2027, and how to strengthen women’s economic participation, farm ownership and representation in local executive roles.

    In this chapter

    1. First panel – MEP questions on funding, demography and democracyDragoş Benea
    2. First panel – MEP questions on access to EU funds and local leadershipAna Miranda Paz
    3. Poland – responses on gender‑sensitive funding and women’s rural networksBeata Krzewińska
    4. Galicia and Ireland – local project impacts and women’s leadershipDragoş Benea

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  5. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Opening and country case studies on rural women

    The Chair situates the hearing within Gender Equality Week and future cohesion debates, then speakers from Poland, Galicia and Ireland present detailed socio‑economic profiles of rural women, illustrating systemic barriers, local EU‑funded initiatives, and the practical meaning of the right to stay in their territories.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening of hearing and Gender Equality Week messageDragoş Benea
    2. Poland – rural women’s profile and systemic barriersDragoş Benea
    3. Poland – EU funding experience and recommendations for 2028–2034Beata Krzewińska

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  6. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Q&A on rural young women study and implications for Right to Stay strategy

    MEPs question the study team on voluntary versus forced out‑migration, data gaps, indicators and targeting, while authors stress the need to define young rural women as a distinct EU target group and empower local actors; the Commission then signals it will integrate these findings and better data needs into the forthcoming Right to Stay strategy before the authors and Chair close the meeting.

    In this chapter

    1. Le Callennec: question on ‘forced’ versus ‘chosen’ rural out‑migrationIsabelle Le Callennec
    2. Kountoura: Greek data gaps and monitoring design questionsElena Kountoura
    3. Gerzsenyi: targeting vulnerable rural women and role of partnershipsGabriella Gerzsenyi

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  7. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Study presentation: young women’s right to stay in rural and remote areas

    Researchers present a REGI‑commissioned study on young women in rural and remote areas, detailing demographic decline and gender imbalance, key obstacles in employment, services and representation, gaps in EU and cohesion policy targeting and funding patterns, limited evidence on ‘right to stay’ impacts, and recommendations for the next MFF, a Right to Stay strategy and improved statistics.

    In this chapter

    1. Study introduction: objectives, scope and methodology
    2. Key findings: demographic trends and gender imbalance in rural areasAustėja Švedkauskienė
    3. Obstacles for young rural women: employment, services, representationAustėja Švedkauskienė

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  8. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Omnibus regulation under Article 349 TFEU for outermost regions

    Political groups and the Commission examine the horizontal omnibus proposal adapting fisheries, agriculture, environment and asylum rules for outermost regions, with support for a stronger Article 349 ‘test’ but divergent views on the French Guiana deforestation exemption and asylum derogations, and confirmation of forthcoming committee opinions and amendment timetables.

    In this chapter

    1. Introduction: omnibus regulation for outermost regions (Article 349 TFEU)Dragoş Benea
    2. EPP: cautious welcome and demands for greater ambition
    3. S&D/Nora Mebarek via Ros: support with reservations on deforestation and asylumMarcos Ros Sempere

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  9. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Dock dues regime for French outermost regions

    Members and the Commission debate the proposal to prolong and technically update the octroi de mer regime until 2030, outlining its fiscal and industrial role, differing political views on its social impacts and fairness, and agreement on using a simplified procedure and setting a tight amendment deadline.

    In this chapter

    1. Introduction: Council decision on dock dues (French outermost regions)
    2. EPP position: support for extended dock dues flexibility
    3. S&D/Nora Mebarek via Ros: backing prolongation but seeking post‑2030 clarityMarcos Ros Sempere

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  10. GMT+1

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Opening of REGI meeting and procedural vote

    The Chair opens the REGI meeting, confirms quorum and agenda, and organises a Rule 220 show‑of‑hands vote that validates attribution of a legislative file to the REGI bureau, closing the procedural questions before moving to substantive items.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening of meeting and agenda adoptionDragoş Benea
    2. Procedural vote: attribution of legislative file to REGI bureauDragoş Benea

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  11. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting REGI-COTER meeting

    Post-Commission political messages and closing

    After Fitto’s departure, REGI and COTER members reaffirm cohesion as an investment tool complementary to security and competitiveness, warn against national agendas shrinking the MFF, cite concrete territorial examples, and the Chairs close by committing to joint work to anchor multi-level governance and regional subsidiarity in the NRPP-based MFF.

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  12. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting REGI-COTER meeting

    Climate, solidarity and governance in NRPPs plus Q&A with Commission

    Greens and COTER members highlight climate, solidarity and governance gaps in NRPPs, call for mandatory regional chapters and territorial impact assessments, and then engage in a focused Q&A with the Commission and Fitto on regional roles, funding cuts, outermost regions and the ‘right to stay’, to which Fitto responds by defending the NRPP framework and inviting concrete amendments.

    In this chapter

    1. Climate, solidarity instruments and governance gaps in NRPPsDragoş Benea
    2. Short Q&A to Commission and Fitto’s closing responseDragoş Benea

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  13. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting REGI-COTER meeting

    Political groups and regions: defence of cohesion, CAP and partnership

    EPP, S&D, Patriots for Europe, ECR, Greens and regional leaders present converging criticisms of the NRPP architecture, reject cuts to cohesion and CAP, warn against recentralisation and merged envelopes, and demand legally secured regional co-decision, ring-fenced allocations and a robust partnership principle rooted in multi-level governance.

    In this chapter

    1. EPP and S&D coordinators: MFF size, regional role, and anti-centralisationPascal Arimont
    2. Patriots for Europe and ECR: defence of PAC, POSEI and cohesion envelopesAndré Rougé
    3. Greens and regional leaders: cross-group defence of cohesion and partnershipVladimir Prebilič

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  14. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting REGI-COTER meeting

    Opening and Commission vision for future cohesion

    The Chair and CoR President frame the 2028–2034 MFF debate around the treaty-based role of cohesion and risks of the NRPP model, followed by Executive Vice-President Fitto outlining the Commission’s proposal to integrate funds into national and regional partnership plans, maintain a territorial focus and prepare the next period while improving current implementation.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening by Chair Benea: framing MFF and cohesionDragoş Benea
    2. Cordeiro (CoR President): critique of NRPP modelDragoş Benea
    3. Executive Vice-President Fitto: vision for future cohesion and NRPPsRaffaele Fitto

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  15. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    SME critical technologies study and final Q&A

    An external expert presents findings on how cohesion funds support SMEs in critical technologies and proposes post‑2027 reforms, followed by MEPs’ questions on territorial safeguards, performance‑based instruments and links with Horizon and InvestEU before the Chair closes the meeting.

    In this chapter

    1. Presentation: SME support in critical technologies via cohesion funds
    2. Q&A on SME study, territorial safeguards and future instrumentsSérgio Gonçalves

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  16. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Catch-the-eye round and Fitto’s closing commitments

    In a catch‑the‑eye sequence, MEPs seek stronger regional involvement, binding island and RUP clauses and sufficient cohesion resources for the ‘right to stay’, while Fitto concludes by underlining Parliament’s role, confirming POSEI‑type support via NRPPs and linking implementation of the new strategies to the next MFF, before the Chair closes the exchange.

    In this chapter

    1. Catch‑the‑eye questions on islands, RUP, NRPP and right to stayDragoş Benea
    2. Fitto’s concluding responses and link to next MFFRaffaele Fitto
    3. Chair closes Fitto exchange and introduces SME critical technologies studyDragoş Benea

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  17. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Coordinators’ Q&A: RUP, islands and NRPP safeguards

    Political group coordinators and other MEPs question Fitto on implementing Article 349 TFEU, POSEI, ETS derogations and NRPP design, raising concerns about demographic decline, multi‑level governance and horizontal prioritisation of outermost, island and eastern border regions, to which Fitto responds on NRPP timing, flexibility and cross‑portfolio coordination.

    In this chapter

    1. First coordinators’ round: RUP, islands and NRPP concernsDragoş Benea
    2. Continued coordinators’ questions: RUP safeguards and demographic declineDragoş Benea
    3. Fitto’s first replies on NRPP, flexibility and Article 349Raffaele Fitto

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  18. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Commission Fitto: new strategies for islands and outermost regions

    Executive Vice‑President Fitto presents the new EU strategies for islands and outermost regions and explains related regulatory adaptations, then reports on cohesion policy simplification, mid‑term review results and governance for a more flexible, place‑based approach.

    In this chapter

    1. Introduction of exchange with EVP Fitto on islands and outermost regionsDragoş Benea
    2. Fitto: EU islands strategy and its four pillarsRaffaele Fitto
    3. Fitto: Outermost regions strategy and regulatory packageRaffaele Fitto
    4. Fitto: Simplification, mid‑term review and cohesion governanceRaffaele Fitto

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  19. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Opening and adoption of cohesion reports

    The Chair opens the REGI meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then leads voting on the cohesion policy report for cities followed by the report on eastern border regions, including a clarified incident on Amendment 201 and final roll‑call adoptions.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening, agenda and minutes approvalDragoş Benea
    2. Cities report: Rapporteur Nesci’s prioritiesDenis Nesci
    3. Start of voting and scheduling point of orderMarcos Ros Sempere

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  20. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Commission update and transition to NEB–JTF lab

    DG REGIO details NEB’s integration into cohesion funding, concrete project examples and allocated amounts, stressing support for smaller authorities and citizen engagement, before the Chair opens Panel 2 on post‑2026/27 continuity with a Saxony‑Anhalt deep‑rural NEB laboratory financed by the Just Transition Fund.

    In this chapter

    1. Commission (DG REGIO): NEB implementation and cohesion funding
    2. Panel 2 opening: Saxony-Anhalt NEB–JTF laboratory

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  21. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    MEP Q&A: monopolies, rural focus and enabling conditions

    MEPs question how NEB can counter housing monopolies, avoid deregulation risks, and better reach rural and peripheral territories, prompting replies that link past privatisations, loneliness and under‑used housing to NEB research, and highlight communication, local capacity, citizen participation and quality‑focused investment as key enabling conditions.

    In this chapter

    1. Q&A – Repp: monopolies, performance rules, rural NEBSabrina Repp
    2. Q&A – Ros Sempere: lessons and main obstaclesMarcos Ros Sempere
    3. Q&A – Bosanac & Heide: deregulation risks and rural gapGordan Bosanac

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  22. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Practitioner inputs: planning, cohesion and procurement

    Murphy and Schagemann present practice‑based principles for embedding NEB values in territorial development, emphasising inclusion, long‑term cohesion, local delivery capacity, and design quality, and call for procurement reform, clear NEB budgetary anchoring and MFF levers to finance early‑stage planning and small actors.

    In this chapter

    1. Murphy: five practical principles for NEB places
    2. Murphy: long‑term cohesion, capacity and scalingDragoş Benea
    3. Schagemann: design quality as delivery capacity
    4. Schagemann: procurement reform and MFF levers for NEBDragoş Benea

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  23. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Hearing opening and NEB strategic framing

    The Chair opens the hearing on the New European Bauhaus, situating it within the next MFF and cohesion policy, while Marčetić uses the housing crisis and financialisation to question whether EU‑level core values and NEB’s scope can effectively address monopolisation and socio‑economic inequality.

    In this chapter

    1. Chair: opening and hearing objectivesDragoş Benea
    2. Marčetić: NEB values vs housing financialisation
    3. Marčetić: defining common EU values and NEB’s scopeDragoş Benea

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  24. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    ECA RRF transparency report and implications for NRPPs and the next MFF

    The European Court of Auditors presents its findings on transparency and traceability of RRF funds, followed by MEP concerns about opaque national governance and replication of the performance model in NRPPs, and a DG ECFIN–ECA exchange on legal limits, indicators, cost data and the need to improve financial regulation, transparency and traceability in future performance‑based instruments.

    In this chapter

    1. ECA: presentation of RRF transparency and traceability reportIvana Maletić
    2. MEP concerns: national governance, performance model and future MFFElena Nevado del Campo
    3. Commission DG ECFIN reply and ECA’s final warnings on NRPP designDragoş Benea

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  25. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Parliament and stakeholders: insularity, right to stay and funding needs

    Rapporteur Omarjee, political groups, EESC and the Commission debate insularity as a structural handicap, connectivity and state‑aid rules, impacts of ETS/FuelEU on island transport, overtourism and housing, governance tools such as an insularity observatory and territorial impact tests, and calls for binding insularity clauses, dedicated resources and a possible ‘Dublin Pact’ for islands within cohesion and broader EU policies.

    In this chapter

    1. Rapporteur Omarjee: vision for islands, coasts and insularity governanceYounous Omarjee
    2. Shadows EPP and S&D: right to stay, binding insularity clauses and fundingIsabelle Le Callennec
    3. ECR and Renew: insularity as allocation criterion and connectivity exemptionsAntonella Sberna

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  26. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Commission strategies for EU islands and coastal communities

    The Commission presents its new EU Islands Strategy under Article 174 TFEU and the first strategy for resilient coastal communities under the Ocean Pact, detailing policy pillars, flagship actions, blue economy priorities and how island and coastal needs should be reflected in future EU funds and the next MFF without extra administrative burden.

    In this chapter

    1. Commission: EU Islands Strategy presentationDragoş Benea
    2. Commission (DG MARE): Coastal Communities StrategyDragoş Benea

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  27. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Votes on 2027 budget amendments and performance framework opinion

    The committee closes the wildfire item and proceeds to vote on REGI amendments to the 2027 budget and then on compromise amendments to the new performance framework opinion, shaping Parliament’s stance on expenditure tracking, indicators, simplification for beneficiaries and the preservation of climate‑related ‘do no significant harm’ provisions.

    In this chapter

    1. Votes: 2027 budget amendments and performance framework opinionDragoş Benea
    2. Voting on compromise amendments to performance regulation opinionDragoş Benea

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  28. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Cohesion instruments for disaster resilience and wildfire response

    MEPs from several groups detail how to embed resilience as a cohesion objective, extend RESTORE‑type reprogramming and funding flexibility, address rural and forestry impacts, strengthen fire services and civil protection, and ensure ‘do no significant harm’, before DG ECHO presents UCPM operations, rescEU air assets, wildfire risk management and the limits of RESTORE under current rules.

    In this chapter

    1. Cohesion policy tools: RESTORE, resilience and funding flexibilityDragoş Benea
    2. S&D, EPP, Greens: rural impacts, equipment and prevention gapsRosa Serrano Sierra
    3. Greens and EPP Spain: climate responsibility and forest managementGordan Bosanac

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  29. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    Opening and political framing of wildfires and cohesion policy

    The Chair opens the REGI meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the focus on heatwaves and wildfires, followed by EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens, The Left and ESN outlining how cohesion policy, ERDF and the next MFF should integrate climate resilience, prevention and less bureaucratic emergency support.

    In this chapter

    1. Opening of REGI meeting and agenda adoptionDragoş Benea
    2. EPP and S&D: climate-resilient EU investmentsAndrey Novakov
    3. Renew and Greens: preparedness, Green Deal and Rescue 2.0Dragoş Benea
    4. The Left and ESN: adaptation strategies and bureaucracyYounous Omarjee

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  30. GMT+2

    Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting

    REGI Q&A on cohesion policy and meeting closure

    MEPs question the Irish Presidency on the future of cohesion policy, NRPP governance, treatment of territorial specificities, funding predictability and simplification, with the Minister outlining the Presidency’s cautious approach and priorities, before the acting chair formally closes the REGI committee meeting and announces the next session.

    In this chapter

    1. MEPs: questions on cohesion policy, NRPPs and territorial specificitiesIsabelle Le Callennec
    2. Cohesion policy priorities: MEP Buda and Minister responseDaniel Buda
    3. REGI committee closure and post‑meeting audioCarlos Zorrinho

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Who spoke at the committee

  • Ciaran Mullooly 12 sittings
  • Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle 10 sittings
  • Daniel Buda 8 sittings
  • Dragoş Benea 8 sittings
  • Marcos Ros Sempere 7 sittings
  • Paulo do Nascimento Cabral 7 sittings
  • Sabrina Repp 7 sittings
  • Cristina Guarda 6 sittings
  • Gordan Bosanac 6 sittings
  • Pascal Arimont 6 sittings
  • André Rougé 5 sittings
  • Nora Mebarek 5 sittings
  • Vladimir Prebilič 5 sittings
  • Elena Nevado del Campo 4 sittings
  • Isabelle Le Callennec 4 sittings
  • Rosa Serrano Sierra 4 sittings
  • Sakis Arnaoutoglou 4 sittings
  • Sérgio Gonçalves 4 sittings
  • Younous Omarjee 4 sittings
  • Antonella Sberna 3 sittings
  • Irmhild Boßdorf 3 sittings
  • Kathleen Funchion 3 sittings
  • Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza 3 sittings
  • Valentina Palmisano 3 sittings
  • Ana Miranda Paz 2 sittings
  • Andi Cristea 2 sittings
  • Dan Barna 2 sittings
  • Denis Nesci 2 sittings
  • Jacek Protas 2 sittings
  • João Oliveira 2 sittings

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