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Next AFET Committee meetings

22-06-2023 - 11:36
Members of the AFET Committee will meet on Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 June 2023 (Antall 2Q2).

Debates:

Monday 26 June: 2022 Commission Report on Montenegro from 18:30 to 19:00

Tuesday 27 June from 9:00 to 12:30
  • Inter-parliamentary Committee Meeting: Moving the EU enlargement forward - 20 years since the Thessaloniki Declaration and
  • Special address by H.E. Ms Aïssata Tall Sall, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, followed by an EoV

Tuesday 27 June from 15:00 to 16:00
  • In association with DROI and SEDE: Structured Dialogue on the Commission Work Programme: EoV with Josep Borrell Fontell
  • Public hearing on the EU's preventive diplomacy - practise makes (not yet) perfect
Votes:
  • Uzbekistan
  • 2022 Commission Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Recommendation on Relations with the Palestinian Authority
  • Information security in the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union
The meeting will be webstreamed.

Highlights

Many flags from around the world with a nice blue sky
23-06-2023 - 13:34

On 27 June 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the "EU's preventive diplomacy - practise makes (not yet) perfect". Members will discuss with three expert speakers what aspects are still missing in EU's foreign policy to successfully carry out preventive diplomacy.

European flag with a building behind
22-06-2023 - 12:14

On 27 June, the Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and national parliaments of the EU Member States will meet in an Interparliamentary Committee Meeting (ICM).

2 flags, one of Brazil and one of Chile
13-06-2023 - 12:24

A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Santiago and Valparaíso (Chile) and Brasília (Brazil) from 18 to 23 June 2023. The main goal of this mission is to discuss how to make a qualitative leap in the EU-Latin America strategic bi-regional partnership in view of the CELAC-EU Summit on 17-18 July 2023.

European Union and UK
25-05-2023 - 16:35

On 25 May 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Trade will hold a hearing on the implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement that has been in force since 1 May 2021. Members will discuss with four expert speakers how unprecedented arrangements with a third country have been implemented so far.