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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair formally closes the morning session of the Committee on Regional Development, thanks participants, and announces the resumption of work in the afternoon.
Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
Presentation of the draft performance regulation and rapporteur’s priorities, then political groups and the Committee of the Regions set out their lines on simplification, safeguards and indicators, followed by the Commission’s defence of the tracking framework and the rapporteur’s closing political guidance for negotiations.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
Introduction to the REGI debate on post‑2027 cross‑border cooperation, followed by MEPs, AEBR, the Parliament rapporteur and the Commission outlining challenges, tools and positions on Interreg, funding, border obstacles and the proposed standalone Interreg plan.
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Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
The chair delivers closing remarks, thanks participants and interpreters, announces the next REGI committee meeting on 14 April 2026, and formally adjourns the extraordinary session.
Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
The Executive Vice‑President delivers final remarks on cohesion policy, covering support for eastern border regions, defense‑related investments, data transparency on reallocations, territorial participation in future strategies, and the need to simplify governance across multiple funds ahead of upcoming EU budget debates.
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Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
MEPs from several member states describe security pressures and economic decline in eastern and other border regions, call for more grants, inclusion in wider EU instruments, clarity on housing and Just Transition reallocations, reduced red tape and stronger partnership with local authorities, while warning against diverting cohesion funds from long‑term development to security at the expense of territorial balance.
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Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
Political group coordinators raise positions on using cohesion funds for security at the eastern flank, rule‑of‑law conditionality, transparency of reallocations, housing needs and potential ‘regional checks’, followed by the Commission’s first reply defending the eastern border strategy, voluntary defense spending and the operational use of new territorial strategies and available data.
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Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
The Executive Vice‑President is introduced for a structured dialogue and presents the new communication on EU eastern border regions together with the cohesion policy midterm review, detailing financial reallocations, priority areas, flexibility mechanisms and forthcoming territorial strategies such as islands, outermost regions and the ‘right to stay’.
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Committee on Regional Development Extraordinary meeting
The committee opens the extraordinary meeting, adopts the agenda and rapidly proceeds through the full amendment package on the REGI opinion for Horizon Europe, voting on compromise blocks and individual amendments before adopting the final opinion and briefly suspending for the next item.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
In a separate early shadows meeting on the draft compromise text, political groups debate Article 2 definitions (including research infrastructures, university alliances, regional dimensions, human rights and nonprofit notions) and alternative formulations for a ‘seal of competitiveness’ or ‘seal of excellence’, also considering their linkage to ERDF and the Competitiveness Fund regulation.
Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair introduces an expert study on the Commission’s NRPP and MFF proposal, which criticises the weak cohesion‑oriented intervention logic, risks of recentralisation, unclear regional roles, CAP Pillar II linkages, performance‑based delivery design and limited steering and oversight tools. MEPs confront the study author and Commission on potential dilution of cohesion, rural earmarking, territorial instruments and predictability for regions, before the Chair closes the agenda item, other business and the REGI meeting while announcing upcoming sessions.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The committee hears the European Court of Auditors’ assessment of smart specialisation strategies as an ex ante conditionality for ERDF innovation funding, covering weaknesses in prioritisation, alignment with EU policies and monitoring, and key recommendations. MEPs then question equity impacts, legal certainty and S3’s future role, prompting clarifications from the ECA and a defence by the Commission of S3’s governance value and continued, though non‑mandatory, use under the new framework.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs outline the “Rescue 2.0” vision to turn UCPM into a permanent, prevention‑oriented EU preparedness system closely linked to regional resilience, while shadows stress local involvement, faster and better‑coordinated responses, and use of digital tools; the Commission (DG ECHO and HERA) broadly supports Parliament’s approach, clarifies division of roles, and the Chair sets procedural deadlines before adjourning.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
Co‑rapporteurs and MEPs from multiple groups criticise the Commission’s NRPP‑based proposal as hollowing out cohesion policy, call for a full legislative rewrite with ring‑fenced envelopes, strong multilevel governance, reinforced Interreg and PEACE Plus, protection against renationalisation and hidden cuts, and clear links with other instruments and funds.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the REGI meeting, adopts procedural items, and holds hand votes to approve pilot projects and preparatory actions for the 2027 EU budget, to be transmitted to the Commission via BUDG for pre-assessment.
Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
DG AGRI outlines the revised school scheme’s objectives, design parameters and product rules, followed by the rapporteur’s political framing of the opinion and the Chair’s procedural announcements on amendment deadlines and upcoming REGI dates before formal closure.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the item on REGI’s draft opinion revising the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme, followed by rapporteur Palmisano outlining her proposals on child obesity, local and sustainable diets, hemp and anti‑waste measures, and an exchange with shadows and MEPs on support for small farmers, governance with local authorities, school canteens and plant‑based proteins.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
CEMR, MEPs and the Commission discuss the proposed National and Regional Partnership Plans within the future MFF architecture, focusing on the risk of recentralisation, ring‑fencing for cohesion and rural areas, the role of regional and local authorities, simplification versus administrative burden, and lessons from the RRF, before the Chair suspends the meeting.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
From the opening of the REGI meeting to the closing of the Horizon item, members and the Commission debate how the 2028–2034 Horizon programme should better reflect territorial cohesion, widen participation, link with ERDF and cohesion policy, simplify access, and ensure that excellence‑based research funding benefits all regions, culminating in the timetable for amendments and the committee vote.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
MEPs present amendment priorities on the Connecting Europe Facility, question the Commission on regional impacts and infrastructure needs, and the Chair sets the amendment deadline, REGI vote date and formally closes the meeting.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The committee frames its opinion on the 2028–2034 CEF for transport and energy, with rapporteur and shadows outlining cohesion priorities and the Commission services detailing programme objectives, scope and territorial focus, as well as REGI’s intended cross‑party role.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
REGI hears a study on demographic change and essential services, then MEPs and the Commission debate protection of disadvantaged territories, use of cohesion tools and NRPPs, and possible follow‑up work on the ‘right to stay’ and territorial instruments.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
REGI examines its consultative opinion on the European Competitiveness Fund, with the rapporteur, political groups and the Commission outlining priorities on competitiveness, cohesion safeguards, territorial balance, SME support, governance and timing of the committee’s vote.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Chair concludes the exchanges with the Cypriot Presidency and the EIB, notes that MFF and NRPP negotiations will continue, and formally closes the REGI Committee’s morning sitting.
Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
EIB Vice‑President Mora outlines the bank’s 2025 results and cohesion portfolio and its prospective role under NRPPs, then fields several rounds of MEP questions on added value, multilevel governance, outermost regions, SMEs, housing and major infrastructure, with DG REGIO explaining Commission–EIB cooperation and Mora detailing leverage, blending, advisory mandates and loan competitiveness.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The Cypriot Council Presidency presents its cohesion priorities and work on the NRP Regulation and sectoral funds, followed by MEPs from several groups challenging the NRPP architecture, risks of renationalisation, treatment of agriculture, rural areas, islands and outermost regions, and the Minister’s responses on defending cohesion policy and people‑centred territorial support.
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Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
The committee opens the sitting, adopts its agenda and proceeds through compromise and individual votes, including a final roll‑call, to adopt the REGI opinion on the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework.
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