601st Plenary Session - 3-4 December 2025

601^st EESC Plenary session, with the following guests and debates:

Cooperatives building a better world: the contribution of the EESC to the International Year of Cooperatives, with Jeroen Douglas, Director-General at the International Cooperative Alliance, Carlien van Empel, Director of the ILO Office for the European Union and the Benelux countries, Amal Chevreau, Head of Unit, Social Economy and Innovation at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (remotely) and Dr Joachim Schwerin, Principal Economist, Responsible Business Conduct Unit within the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) of the European Commission; linked to the adoption of opinion CCMI/242 on Industrial Cooperatives: a tool for the challenge of inclusive and sustainable competitiveness, at 15:00 on Wednesday 3 December 2025.

The next multiannual financial framework, with Piotr Serafin, European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Carla Tavares, Member of the European Parliament and Professor Enrico Giovannini, former Italian Minister, currently Scientific Director of ASviS (remotely), at 16:30 on Wednesday 3 December 2025.

Thirty COPs later and a decade after the Paris Agreement: assessing global climate action and opportunities for civil society, with Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, Ivone Kaizeler, Deputy Head of Multilateral Affairs Unit within the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) of the European Commission and Samira Ben Ali, EESC Youth Delegate to COP (remotely), at 10:00 on Thursday 4 December 2025.

You will be able to follow the debates by web streaming. Web streaming