568th Plenary session 23-24 March 2022

568th plenary session, with the following guests and debates:

  • Debate on the Resolution "War in Ukraine and its economic and social impact", with Ylva Johansson, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Anatoliy Kinakh, President of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council, Ukraine, Alexander Shubin, Chair of the Ukrainian Civil Society Platform (tbc) and Gennadiy Chyzhykov who is the President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (tbc), a representative of the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Founder of the Open Russia Foundation,on Thursday 24 March at 11.15 a. m.

  • Debate on the New European Bauhaus initiative, with Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, on Wednesday 23 March, at 3 p.m.
  • Presentation of the European Citizens' Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee- friendly agriculture for a healthy environment'', with Helmut Burtscher-Schaden, PhD, representative of the ECI, Biochemist, GLOBAL 2000 – Friends of the Earth Austria, on Wednesday 23 March, at 3.45 p. m.
  • Adoption of the revised Rules of Procedure of the European Economic and Social Committee on Thursday 24 March at 10 a. m.