Battery Booster Strategy
DG GROW – Executive Vice-President SÉJOURNÉ

Motor vehicles/Simplifying technical requirements and testing
DG GROW – Executive Vice-President SÉJOURNÉ

Exemption for N2 electric vehicles from speed-limiter requirements
DG GROW – Executive Vice-President SÉJOURNÉ

EU policy agenda for liveable cities
DG REGIO– Executive Vice-President FITTO

Summary of the opinions adopted at the plenary session of 17 and 18 June 2026

Document type
Conclusions
  • Joint conclusions of the conference

The EESC:

  • stresses that the European energy-intensive industry, and in particular the chemical sector, is facing a deep structural crisis, driven primarily by persistently high and volatile energy costs, low investments and global competition; 

Statement by Cillian Lohan, President of the EESC Civil Society Organisations' Group, on Europe’s new economic compass, a topic for debate at the Connecting EU seminar 2026 on 6-7 July 2026 in Sofia. More information on the seminar: In defence of European values: The power of civil society