604th Plenary Session - 18-19 March 2026

Presentation of the outcomes of Civil Society Week, with Nicolae Ștefănuță, Vice-President of the European Parliament; Irena Moozová, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate- General for Justice and Consumers (DGJUST); Hanna Surmatz, Member of the Liaison Group; Thierry Libaert, Member of the European Citizens’ Initiative Group ; Pietro Barbieri, Cinzia Del Rio and Christa Schweng, rapporteurs-general for opinion SOC/840 on the EU strategy to support, protect and empower civil society adopted in May 2025, at 15:00 on Wednesday 18 March 2026.

Moving Europe in times of crisis: military mobility, transport resilience and their social dimension, with Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament (tbc); Maja Bakran, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE); Hasit Bhaskarrai Thankey, Head of the Defence Enablement and Logistics Defence Policy and Planning Division at NATO; Fabrizio Petrucci, CEO of Prometheus; and Nele Verlinden, Senior Legal Adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation to the EU, NATO and the Kingdom of Belgium; linked to the adoption of opinion TEN/869 on Military mobility, at 16:30 on Wednesday 18 March 2026.

Flagship debate on the emotional health of young people and children in the EU, with, among others, Ewa Kopacz, Vice-President of the European Parliament, European Parliament Coordinator for Children’s Rights and Chair of the High-level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity; Agnese Lāce, Minister for Culture of the Republic of Latvia; Olivér Várhelyi, European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare (video message); Maria Walsh, Member of the European Parliament and Co-chair of the Intergroup on Mental Health; and Pietro Barbieri, EESC rapporteur for opinion SOC/799 on Mental Health Community Services adopted in September 2024, at 10:00 on Thursday 19 March 2026.