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Chair opens the item on the upcoming Irish Council Presidency and Minister Chambers presents Ireland’s cohesion‑policy priorities, focusing on competitiveness, green and digital transitions, simplification and the long‑term role and funding of cohesion policy.
Debate on the future architecture of the Just Transition Fund after the current MFF, including territorial continuity, ring‑fencing, EU added value versus national schemes, and operational constraints such as state aid and co‑financing.
Country experts from Germany and Ireland present how the Just Transition Fund supports coal and peat phase‑outs through place‑based projects, intermediating institutions and territorial ring‑fencing, highlighting administrative rigidity, capacity gaps and lessons for more flexible, integrated support at regional level.
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MEPs question the long‑term future of JTF, its role within cohesion policy and local employment, while the Commission explains governance, partnership requirements and initial results, and regional actors from Poland and Ireland detail implementation challenges, miners’ expectations, reskilling, and risks linked to ending support after 2027/2028.
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Opening of the REGI hearing on the Just Transition Fund and its political framing, followed by Polish and Irish regional case studies that illustrate socio‑economic dependence on coal/peat, exclusion or access to JTF support, and early diversification strategies such as tourism and placemaking.
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Nora Mebarek and 24 others
Rapporteur, MEPs and the Commission present their positions on supporting eastern border regions through cohesion policy, detailing funding demands, security-related investments, territorial scope and the use of existing EU instruments and reprogrammed funds.
Denis Nesci and 10 others
The committee opens the cohesion policy report on the EU urban agenda, where the rapporteur sets his mandate and post‑2027 priorities, followed by Commission and groups outlining positions on funding access, housing, youth and multilevel governance, and closing with amendment deadlines and next steps.
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The Chair, co‑rapporteurs, Commission and Members present and politically frame the proposed ERDF, Interreg and Cohesion Fund regulation, then assess earmarking, flexibility and simplification, highlighting tensions over spending priorities, governance and the cohesion rulebook.
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The committee defines Parliament’s political line on ESF+ and CAP within the NRPP 2028–2034 framework and completes the full sequence of amendments, compromise votes, electronic checks and final adoption of both opinions.
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At the start of a new REGI meeting, the Chair confirms quorum, adopts the agenda and minutes, and announces coordinators’ decisions on allocating upcoming REGI opinions and rapporteurships across political groups for major EU facilities, programmes and agencies.
The Chair introduces the ECA item ahead of the REGI ESF+ vote, the Court of Auditors presents its audit scope, key findings and recommendations on financial and net corrections in cohesion policy, and MEPs question the Commission and ECA on under‑corrections, data gaps and budget protection before the sitting is formally closed.
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The Chair opens the REGI item on the ESF+ 2028–2034 opinion, rapporteur Mebarek presents her mandate and red lines, political groups set out their priorities on ESF+ scope, governance and links to NRPP, and the Commission and rapporteur debate ESF+ autonomy versus integration in the NRPP architecture.
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The REGI chair opens a new meeting, adopts the agenda, recalls webstreaming and interpretation arrangements, and proceeds to the uncontested election of Younous Omarjee as first vice‑president by acclamation.
The second panel introduces the Romanian case and examines how NRPPs can strengthen or weaken multilevel governance, with expert input on legal gaps, risks to partnership compared to cohesion policy, and proposed safeguards including binding definitions, an updated code of conduct and rule‑of‑law conditionality links, followed by co‑rapporteurs and regions outlining conditions to prevent recentralisation and ensure enforceable partnership and subsidiarity, and MEP–Commission exchanges on depoliticisation, protection of beneficiaries, and monitoring provisions for implementation.
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Opening of the REGI hearing on the partnership principle using the Polish Warmińsko‑Mazurskie region as a case study, examining monitoring committees, the shift to qualitative partnerships and the risks after 2027 from centralised management, national partnership plans and flexible reallocations.
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Initial REGI agenda item on the horizontal performance regulation for the next MFF, with co‑rapporteurs, political groups and the Commission outlining priorities, amendments and implementation issues (DNSH, simplification, governance, regional role) ahead of opinion adoption and trilogues.
Commission details cohesion policy instruments for disaster risk management and available technical assistance, followed by the chair’s closing remarks, identified priorities for future MFF work, and formal adjournment of the REGI meeting.
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The committee turns to the disaster risk and cohesion policy item, with the study’s author explaining EU disaster instruments, the role and limits of cohesion funds, and Build Back Better recommendations for integrating prevention, recovery and multi‑cycle financing into cohesion policy and NRPPs, alongside initial MEP reactions.
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The chair and Mayor Boichenko document Russian war crimes in Mariupol, present the city’s governance in exile, housing and reconstruction plans, and call for using frozen Russian assets for justice, followed by an exchange with MEPs on deterrence, urban resilience and long‑term EU backing before closing the Mariupol agenda item.
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Rapporteur Roger and political groups debate the CAP opinion, covering separation from NRPPs, budget levels, rural development and LEADER, regional and outermost‑region needs, young farmers, environmental and rule‑of‑law conditionalities, after which the Commission explains its proposal and the rapporteur concludes ahead of the announced July vote.
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Rapporteur Mebarek introduces the ESF+ draft opinion as a sovereignty and cohesion tool, political groups and additional MEPs set out positions on fund autonomy, NRPP integration, regional involvement and social priorities, the Commission defends the single‑fund architecture, and the chair closes with wrap‑up and timetable for amendments and the July vote.
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The chair and rapporteur present the REGI opinion on the European Competitive Fund with defence research and innovation, emphasising regional balance and support for less‑developed and Eastern regions, followed by amendment votes and the final roll‑call adoption under simple‑majority rules.
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The chair and rapporteur introduce the REGI opinion on amendments to the EU school scheme regulation, then the committee proceeds through blocks, compromises and checks, concluding with the roll‑call adoption of the final opinion.
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Chair opens the REGI meeting and presents the draft opinion on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism; the rapporteur sets out priorities, followed by a full sequence of votes on compromise and individual amendments, ending with the final roll‑call adoption of the opinion.
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Members debate preserving the Commission’s informal Rural Pact group beyond 2026, including proposed REGI letters to Commissioners to prolong its mandate, and the Chair then outlines follow‑up by coordinators, announces the next meeting date and formally closes the sitting.
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DG REGIO (Berkowitz) explains the post‑2027 simplification architecture (single rulebook, national eligibility rules, performance‑based payments) and cautions against Parliament re‑introducing invoice logic, followed by Buda’s closing warning that Parliament’s long‑standing concerns, particularly on CAP integration into NRPs, must be taken seriously in forthcoming Commission work. This segment sets out contrasting institutional roles, with the Commission defending its design choices while the Parliament signals political pressure and expectations for adjustments.
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Political groups and individual MEPs question the impact of NRPs on predictability, subsidiarity, regional roles and local access, with Mendez responding on regional chapters, governance safeguards, conditionality and preserving cohesion policy’s core mission.
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Prof. Mendez presents the study’s analysis of simplification, performance‑based delivery, flexibility reserves, conditionality, thematic concentration, regional allocations and the future of Interreg under the proposed NRP‑centred model.
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Rapporteur Roucher and political groups set out their positions on the MFF proposal, the merger of CAP and cohesion into NRPs, protection of POSEI and outermost regions, rural development tools like LEADER, and related institutional timelines before moving to the external study.
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Opening of the sitting, introductory remarks by the rapporteur and full amendment‑by‑amendment voting sequence leading to the final adoption of the opinion and closure of the agenda item.
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