33rd Session

• Hemicycle
• Room 1

• Debates
• Committees
• Bureau
• Side events
• Participation of youth delegates in Congress activities
• Dosta!
• European Local Democracy Week (ELDW)

• Wednesday 18 October: morning | afternoon
• Thursday 19 October: morning | afternoon
• Friday 20 October: morning

• Debates & Mediabox interviews
• Bereits aufgezeichnete Übertragungen - Video- und Audioaufzeichnungen vorher aufgezeichnete Übertragungen - Video- and Audioaufzeichnung

Wednesday 18 October

• Communication by Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, President of the Congress
• Verification of new members’ credentials and new official procedures for appointing
• Statement by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Statement by Petr Mlsna, Deputy Minister for Legislation and Archiving, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, on behalf of the Chair of the Committee of Ministers
• Presentation of the youth delegates’ 2017 grass-roots projects
• Reception of refugee children – testimonies
• Local and regional democracy in Serbia
• Local and regional democracy in Italy

Thursday 19 October

• Full session of the Chamber of Regions
• Opening speech by Gunn Marit Helgesen, President of the Chamber of Regions
• Communication by Gunn Marit Helgesen, President of the Chamber of Regions
• Observation of local elections in Finland (9 April 2017)
• Fact-finding mission to Belgium
• Information report on the elections to the Council of Elders of Yerevan, Armenia (14 May 2017)
• Round table – the situation in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Regional Co-operation and democracy in Europe : the role of European regional associations and organisations
• Statement by Magnus Berntsson, President of the Assembly of European Regions (AER)
• Statement by Stefan August Lütgenau, Director of Foster Europe, Foundation for strong European Regions, Austria
• Linguistic diversity in Europe
• Statement by Vesna Crnić-Grotić, Croatia, Chair of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
• Statement by Anna Magyar, Hungary
• Statement by Lelia Hunziker, Switzerland
• Women’s participation in political life at regional level
• Statement by Elena Centemero, Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Statement by Simone Susskind, Member of the Parliament of Brussels City Capital President of the Association “Actions in the Mediterranean”
• Situation of Dorin Chirtoaca, Mayor of Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
• 10 years of the Dosta!/Congress Prize
• Young people and open government in the fight against corruption
• Transparent public procurement
• A better future for Europe’s rural areas
• The situation of Catalonia in Spain

Friday 20 October

• Exchange of views with the President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Stefano Bonaccini
• 10 years of the European Local Democracy Week
• Local and regional democracy in Switzerland