02 – 06 March 2026

EU News

Monday, 2 March 2026

European Commission

Commissioner Costas Kadis delivers opening remarks at the European Ocean Days opening ceremony.
President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the opening speech at the European Ocean Days (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto meets His Royal Highness Guillaume, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Gilles Roth, Minister of Finance (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto visits the ESPON project (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Claude Meisch, Minister for Housing and Spatial Planning (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Tony Murphy, President of the European Court of Auditors (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto takes part in exchanges of views with Members of the European Court of Auditors (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Stéphane Séjourné meets Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Canada (Toronto, Canada).
Executive Vice President Séjourné meets Cecilie Myrseth, Minister for Trade and Industry of Norway (Toronto, Canada).
Executive Vice President Séjourné meets Naaja H. Nathanielsen, Minister for Business, Mineral Resources, Energy, Justice and Gender Equality of Greenland (Toronto, Canada).
Executive Vice President Séjourné participates in the International Mines Ministers Summit (Toronto, Canada).
Executive Vice President Séjourné meets Peter Borg, Minister of Fisheries, Hunting, Agriculture, and Self Sufficiency of Greenland (Toronto, Canada).
Executive Vice President Séjourné participates in the world’s premier mineral exploration and mining convention (Toronto, Canada).
Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra attends a lunch session of the “Manufacturers kring” (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque meets Christoph Boschan, CEO of the Austrian Stock Exchange (Vienna, Austria).
Commissioner Albuquerque visits the Financial Life Park with Secretary Barbara Eibinger Miedl and meets students from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria).

European Parliament

President’s Agenda

15:00 President Roberta Metsola receives a delegation from the Malta Business Bureau.

Parliamentary Committees

LIBE, 15:00 to 18:30, Brussels, ANTALL, 2Q2

Public hearing: European Citizens’ Initiative for a ban on conversion practices in the European Union.

Debate: Artificial Intelligence and media pluralism, exchange of views with the Commission, civil society, and industry.

Vote: Extension of the period of application of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, adoption of draft report. Rapporteur: Birgit Sippel (S&D, DE).

HOUS, 15:30 to 17:00, Brussels, SPINELLI, 3G-3

Exchange of views with Ioannis Tsakiris, Vice President of the European Investment Bank.

CONT, 15:30 to 18:30, Brussels, SPINELLI, 1G-3

Votes: Discharge 2024 package, adoption of draft reports across EU institutions and bodies, including the general budget, Council and European Council, EEAS, Ombudsman, EDPS, EPPO, Court of Justice, EESC, Court of Auditors, Committee of the Regions, and Joint Undertakings. Rapporteurs include Gerben Jan Gerbrandy (Renew, DE) and Pasquale Tridico (The Left, IT), plus Csaba Molnár (S&D, HU) for Joint Undertakings.

Council of the European Union

Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council (2 to 3 March 2026).

European Economic and Social Committee

Civil Society Week 2026

Tuesday, 3 March 2026

European Commission

Commissioner Dan Jørgensen participates in the 12th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council Ministerial meeting and the 4th Green Energy Advisory Council Ministerial meeting (Baku, Azerbaijan).
Commissioner Jørgensen meets Dorin Junghietu, Minister for Energy of the Republic of Moldova (Baku, Azerbaijan).
Commissioner Costas Kadis delivers a keynote speech at the Arctic Circle Forum 2026 (Rome, Italy).
Commissioner Kadis meets Elina Valtonen, Foreign Minister of Finland, and Alvaro Lario, President of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (Rome, Italy).
Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto meets Dragoș Pîslaru, Minister of Investments and European Projects of Romania (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto participates in the European Investment Bank Group Forum (Luxembourg).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Xavier Bettel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs (Luxembourg).
Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque meets Christian Stocker, Chancellor of Austria, and Barbara Eibinger-Miedl, State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery (Vienna, Austria).
Commissioner Hadja Lahbib meets Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Jessika Roswall meets Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist, Member of the Riksdag (Stockholm, Sweden).
Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera meets the winners of the Blueprint Student Challenge during the Youth Policy Dialogue 2026 (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Glenn Micallef meets representatives of the European Association of Hotel and Tourism Schools (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas meets Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb founder and Chief Strategy Officer (Berlin, Germany).
Commissioner Albuquerque meets representatives of the Financial Market Authority (Vienna, Austria).
President Ursula von der Leyen participates in the Interinstitutional Actors meeting with António Costa, President of the European Council, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, and Kyriakos Pierrakakis, President of the Eurogroup (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Tzitzikostas delivers a keynote speech on shaping the future of EU tourism at ITB Berlin 2026 (Berlin, Germany).
Commissioner Albuquerque holds a working lunch with Martin Kocher, Governor of the Austrian National Bank (Vienna, Austria).
Commissioner Tzitzikostas meets Patrick Schnieder, German Federal Minister for Transport (Berlin, Germany).
Commissioner Tzitzikostas meets Christoph Ploß, Federal Coordinator for Maritime Transport and Tourism (Berlin, Germany).

European Parliament

President’s Agenda

10:30 President Roberta Metsola receives a delegation from the European American Chamber of Commerce New York.
13:00 President Metsola receives the Bureau of the EU Ambassadors.
17:00 President Metsola receives Rob Jetten, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

Council of the European Union

Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council, 2 to 3 March 2026.

European Economic and Social Committee

Civil Society Week 2026.

Committee of the Regions

High level dialogue on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy and rural development, focusing on the impact of the next Multiannual Financial Framework.

Stakeholder consultation on the opinion “EU global climate and energy vision”, addressing the role of local and regional authorities in UN climate and biodiversity negotiations.

Stakeholder consultation on the opinion “Generational renewal in agriculture”, led by rapporteur Emiliano García-Page Sánchez.

European Ombudsman

Speaker at the European Citizens’ Initiative Day.

Wednesday, 4 March 2026

European Commission

High Representative and Vice President Kaja Kallas attends the Council of the Baltic Sea States Foreign Ministerial Meeting (Warsaw, Poland).
Commissioner Costas Kadis delivers opening remarks at the European Ocean Days event “Towards the Vision 2040 for a thriving fisheries and aquaculture sector” (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto participates in the High Level Meeting on Eastern Border Regions at the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Michele de Pascale, President of the Emilia-Romagna Region (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Fitto attends the Power Regions Round Table Summit 2026 (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Roberto Tasca, President of A2A (Brussels, Belgium).
Meeting of the College of Commissioners (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Glenn Micallef meets Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Governor of Lower Austria (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Micallef participates in the High Level Conference on Academic Freedom organised by the European Parliament Research Service Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (Belgium).
Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera receives Krum Zarkov, President of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Ribera receives Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Jessika Roswall receives Renato Mazzoncini, CEO and Managing Director of the A2A Group (Brussels, Belgium).
President Ursula von der Leyen receives members of the Bavarian Economic Board Wirtschaftsbeirat Bayern (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Roswall addresses the event “Innovation and Research: Paramount for shaping Europe’s water resilient future” at the EU Ocean Days (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Micallef meets Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Roswall addresses the EU Energy Summit “Energy Resilience for Industrial Growth: Competitiveness, Clean Technologies and Climate Neutrality” hosted by the European Business Summit (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra speaks at the annual EU Energy Summit (Brussels, Belgium).

European Parliament

President’s agenda

11:30 President Roberta Metsola receives Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE.
14:45 President Metsola receives Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz.
16:00 President Metsola presides over the Conference of Presidents.

European Economic and Social Committee

Civil Society Week 2026 continues under the theme “People, Democracy, Resilience – Our Future!”, with discussions focused on a Union of security and the protection of democratic institutions and civic space.

Conference “Challenges for Women in Media – supporting and hindering factors”, organised by the EESC Equality Group to mark International Women’s Day 2026, with panels on structural barriers, threats to women journalists, and online violence.

European Ombudsman

Participation in the Dutch Parliament roundtable discussion on the weakening of European sustainability due diligence rules for companies (The Hague).

Meeting with Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director of Europol, to discuss Europol’s activities and priorities (The Hague).

Thursday, 5 March 2026

European Commission

High Representative and Vice President Kaja Kallas meets Martin Pfister, Minister of Defence of Switzerland (Zurich, Switzerland).
High Representative and Vice President Kallas meets Ignazio Cassis, Foreign Minister of Switzerland (Zurich, Switzerland).
High Representative and Vice President Kallas delivers the “Churchill Lecture” at the University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland).
Commissioner Christophe Hansen chairs the High Level Food Dialogue together with Executive Vice President Stéphane Séjourné (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Costas Kadis delivers a speech at a reception organised by the Jacques Delors Institute and Oceano Azul (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Kadis delivers opening remarks at the European Ocean Days, 4th Mission Ocean and Waters Forum (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto meets Jacek Karnowski, Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, and Polish Presidents of Regions (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Vladimir Bolea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of the Republic of Moldova (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Fitto meets Roberto Vavassori, President of the Associazione Nazionale Filiera Industria Automobilistica (ANFIA) (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra presents the 2026 European Commission Work Programme to the Dutch National Parliament (The Hague, Netherlands).
Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič co chairs, with Maninder Sidhu, Minister for International Trade of Canada, the EU Canada CETA Joint Committee meeting, 5 to 7 March (Toronto, Canada).
Commissioner Hadja Lahbib participates in the International Women’s Day 2026 event organised by the FEMM Committee at the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium).
Executive Vice President Teresa Ribera participates in the online expert presentation “Europe China: A New Joint Venture Strategy for Cleantech” (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis Serafin takes part in the Europe Direct meeting (Serock, Poland).
Commissioner receives the German Federal Chamber of Notaries (Belgium).
Commissioner Jessika Roswall addresses the Women Climate Leaders Network meeting at the EIB Group Forum 2026 (Luxembourg).
Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas delivers a video address at the Economist Shipping Summit (Athens, Greece).
Commissioner Lahbib meets Laurent Nunez, Minister of the Interior of France (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Roswall addresses the panel “Global Gateway Partnerships” at the event “A strong Europe in a changing world” during the EIB Group Forum 2026 (Luxembourg).
Commissioner Dombrovskis receives Latvian regional authorities (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner receives Eric Beißwenger, Bavarian State Minister for European and International Affairs (Belgium).
Commissioner Lahbib meets Astri Aas Hansen, Minister of Justice and Public Security of Norway (Brussels, Belgium).

European Parliament

President’s agenda

10:00 President Roberta Metsola meets students at St Aloysius College (Malta).
11:50 President Metsola visits Tastees Manufacturing Limited (Malta).
14:30 President Metsola visits Hospice Malta (Malta).

Parliamentary committees

CONT, 08:30 to 08:45, Brussels, SPAAK, 4B001
- Vote: Protection of the European Union’s financial interests, combating fraud, annual report 2024, adoption of draft report. Rapporteur: Julien Sanchez (PfE, FR).
ENVI, 09:00 to 12:30, Brussels, SPAAK, 3C050
- Vote: Interim report on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2028 to 2034, adoption of draft opinion. Rapporteur for opinion: Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP, CY).
- Debate: Market Stability Reserve revision for buildings, road transport, and additional sectors, consideration of draft report. Rapporteur: Danuše Nerudová (EPP, CZ).
- Exchange of views on transparency and traceability of ETS revenues under Directive 2003/87/EC as amended by Directive (EU) 2023/959.
- Debate: Union support to the Common Agricultural Policy 2028 to 2034, consideration of draft opinion. Rapporteur for opinion: Seán Kelly (EPP, IE).
FEMM, 09:00 to 12:30, Brussels, ANTALL, 6Q2
- Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on Women’s rights and democracy, combating stereotypes, disinformation, and violence in the digital age.

Special events

14:00 to 17:30, Seminar for journalists on “International Women’s Day: Digital violence against women”, organised by European Parliament media services (Brussels, SPAAK, 7C50).

Council of the European Union

Justice and Home Affairs Council, Home Affairs configuration.
Informal meeting of culture ministers, 5 to 6 March 2026.

Committee of the Regions

Stakeholder consultation on the opinion “Environmental Implementation Review”, focusing on obstacles for local and regional authorities in complying with EU environmental rules and identifying procedural improvements.

European Ombudsman

Meeting with Albanian Ombudsman Endrit Shabani (Brussels).

Panelist at the College of Europe Annual Law Conference in Bruges, session “Democracy under Pressure – The Role of Law”, addressing the impact of the erosion of the international rules based order on EU law.

Friday, 6 March 2026

European Commission

Commissioner Costas Kadis receives José Basilio Otero, President of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds of Spain (Brussels, Belgium).
President Ursula von der Leyen chairs the College orientation debate on energy policy, with the participation of Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, as special guest (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas receives Christophe Farnaud, Ambassador of the EU Delegation to Saudi Arabia (Brussels, Belgium).
Commissioner Tzitzikostas receives the Loutsios Group, Cyprus Motor and Electric Vehicles Importers Association (Brussels, Belgium).
President von der Leyen hosts the 20 Years Service Medals Ceremony (Brussels, Belgium).