Committee on Regional Development Ordinary meeting
1 October 2026
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REGI European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:06 - 02:39
Speaker 2
Good morning, dear colleagues. Let us begin our meeting with the adoption of the agenda as circulated by email. Are there any comments or objections to the agenda? No, so the agenda is adopted. Next, we have the adoption of the draft minutes of the meeting of 1st September.
I propose that as usual, unless any objections are raised during this meeting, they be deemed approved. Moving forward, I would like to announce that as of today, Ms. Filipa Azevedo has been appointed the new head of unit of the REGI Committee Secretariat. Ms. Azevedo brings with her extensive experience in the European Parliament. She has worked in the Parliament's administration, particularly in the areas of cohesion policy. She has also served in the secretariats of both the CULT and REGI committees.
In 2025, she took on the role of advisor to the Director-General of DG CASP. Beyond her work at the European Parliament, Ms. Azevedo has also worked at the European Commission and at NATO. Ms. Azevedo, on behalf of the REGI Committee, I would like to officially welcome you to your new position and wish you a great success in this role. I am confident that we'll have a fruitful collaboration. We'll now continue with the voting session with the initiative report on cohesion policy, the driving force in implementing the European Union agenda for cities.
During the work on this initiative report, 474 amendments have been tabled and 27 compromise amendments have been negotiated between the groups. I would like to thank Mr. Denis Nesci, the rapporteur, as well as the shadows rapporteurs for the work done on preparing the compromise amendments. Before we move to the vote, I would like to give the floor to the rapporteur. Mr. Nesci, you have the floor.
02:39 - 04:01
Speaker 1
Grazie, Presidente. Volevo ringraziare di vero cuore tutti gli shadow rapporteur, la segreteria, lo staff tecnico, i funzionari per il lavoro che è stato fatto. Abbiamo cercato di dare un messaggio forte e chiaro per quanto riguarda le città, considerandole dei motori propulsivi, ma guardando non solo alle grandi metropolitane, nel senso di città grandi, ma anche alle aree più piccole, alle aree interne, alle aree che circondano i centri urbani.
Abbiamo voluto mettere al centro il la strategia sul diritto di restare. Abbiamo voluto ragionare e dare la priorità su case, famiglie e giovani. E abbiamo cercato di creare i presupposti di una grande semplificazione attraverso un'unica piattaforma come lo sportello unico per consentire soprattutto agli enti locali di poter accedere e di poter avere il supporto tecnico per poter accedere alle risorse che l'Unione Europea mette a disposizione con più facilità e sicuramente in maniera più concreta. Grazie.
04:01 - 04:04
Speaker 3
Thank you. Now we're going to the vote.
04:04 - 04:44
Speaker 6
Excuse me, excuse me, a point of order. Yeah, order. I would like to remember, it's not nothing related to that. I would like to remember that we do have an agreement among coordinators meeting not to table voting sessions on Thursday morning or Monday evening. Today we have all the groups, we have a lot of problems to fill the seats because the members are flying and so I please ask the secretariat and the bureau to not to table again a voting session on Thursday morning or Monday evening.
Thank you very much.
04:44 - 05:00
Speaker 2
Thank you. We will start the vote with the compromise amendment number one. Who's in favor? Against? Abstention?