Monday, 30 January 2017:
- CAFA (the Committee for Financial and Administrative Affairs) meets for the first time this year under chairmanship of Anders KNAPE to discuss CoR's budget.
- Nikola DOBROSLAVIĆ speaks at "Inter-parliamentary conference: "Local and Regional Authorities in the EU enlargement region and the EU regional policy" in the European Parliament.
Tuesday, 31 January 2017:
- SEDEC (CoR's Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture) meets in Brussels (more)
- Witold STĘPIEŃ & Domenico GAMBACORTA speak at the conference on "Waste legislation review – regions and cities for a circular economy", organised in association with CEMR, Eurocities, ACR+ and Municipal Waste Europe.
Wednesday, 1 February 2017:
- ENVE (CoR's Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy) meets in Brussels (more). First discussion on Bruno HRANIC's dossier on "Energy Union and clean energy" is planned.
- Mark WEINMEISTER participates in the EPP Ad Hoc Working Group on the Future of CAP.
Thursday, 2 February 2017:
- NAT (CoR's Commission for Natural Resources) meets in Brussels (more). Two EPP-led opinions should be adopted: "Towards a sustainable EU food policy" by rapporteur Arno KOMPATSCHER & "Integration, cooperation and performance of health systems" by rapporteur Birgitta SACRÉDEUS. A first discussion on Roberto PELLA's report on "Health in cities" is also scheduled.
- CoR President Markku MARKKULA takes part in a citizens' debate under the brand 'rEUnion: Reflecting on Europe' taking place in Malta (more)
Friday, 3 February 2017:
- CIVEX (CoR's Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs) meets in Brussels (more). A first debate on the working document "European consensus on development" by EPP coordinator and rapporteur Jesús GAMALLO ALLER is to take place.
- Raffaele CATTANEO speaks at Conference: "Cross-border crisis management and natural disasters" organized in cooperation with the MOT and NAT Commission, with participation of the European Commission (DG REGIO, DG ECHO) and the UN.
- Luc VAN DEN BRANDE speaks at an academic event of the University of Antwerp on the "Role of regions in EU policy-making".
