Committee on Constitutional Affairs Ordinary meeting

10 November 2026

AFCO European Parliament

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03:08 - 04:11
Speaker 2
So, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, please take your seat that we can start the meeting.  So, we have four vice-presidents in the room, so that we can start.  Good afternoon, and welcome.  The draft agenda was circulated on 13 October, an updated agenda followed on 6 November.  If there are no objections, I declare the agenda adopted. 
04:11 - 05:56
Speaker 3
We have interpretation today in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian.  At their meeting today, the coordinators agreed on the following. 

They agreed to organise a visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union on 19 November in connection with the report entitled the institutional framework of the European Union and its interaction with national authorities in the application of Union law with particular reference to Article 19 of the Treaty on European Union.  The coordinators agreed on the programme for the symposium entitled the quest for a governable union: repoliticising European integration, including the experts to be invited and to hold it preferably during an AFCO meeting in March 2027, most probably the 17 March if we don't find another date.  This is the local election in the Netherlands that might be problematic for some colleagues, but let's see whether we can find a better date.  They agreed to invite Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič for an exchange of views in the context of the Commission communication preparing for a wider Union.  Coordinators also agreed on the AFCO annual work programme for 2027 and to seek authorisation for the following activities: 

an own initiative report entitled the institutional role of the European Council: safeguarding the EU's institutional balance and decision-making framework; 

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