• Hemicycle: ORI - DE - EN - FR - IT - TR - UA - SP
  • Room 1  (Wednesday morning, 28 October): ORI - DE - EN - FR - IT - TR -UA - SP

 

27 October 2026

Morning:

  • Full session (morning)
  • Verification of new members’ credentials
  • Congress priorities for 2026-2031
  • How can we cope with coastal erosion? : Statement by Sophie PANONACLE

Afternoon:

  • Full session (afternoon)
  • Statement by Alain BERSET, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
  • Early warning instruments against democratic backsliding, including statement by David MEYER, President of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
  • Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Albania
  • Missing out: tackling school absenteeism in Europe’s communities

 

28 October 2026

Morning - Chamber of Local Authorities, Hemicycle

  • Full session
  • Communication by Konstantinos Koukas, President of the Chamber
  • Application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in the smallest States
  • Thematic debate: The Cost of Crises: Financing Local Resilience
  • Thematic debate: Too Many or Too Few? When Overtourism and Depopulation Challenge Local Self-Government

Morning - Chamber of Regions, Room 1

  • Full session 
  • Election of the 6th and 7th Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Regions
  • Communication by Cecilia DALMAN EEK, President of the Chamber
  • Regional Exodus in Europe: addressing the causes and creating new opportunities for rural communities
  • Statement by Joris BENGEVOORD, President of the Association of European Border Regions
  • Thematic debate: The role of regions in transfrontier co-operation
  • Thematic debate: Building regional democratic resilience in times of crisis

Afternoon

  • Full session (afternoon)
  • Statement by Lionel BEFFRE, Minister of the Interior of Monaco on behalf of the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers
  • The Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine
  • Free to speak, free to meet: guaranteeing the rights of LGBTI persons in local communities
  • Congress Rejuvenating Politics Initiative: Presentation of the grassroots projects by the 2026 youth delegates
  • Election observation mission reports

 

29 October 2026

  • Full session
  • Third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in case n° 37204/25: İmamoğlu v. Türkiye
  • Contested memories: how local and regional authorities can manage controversial cultural heritage
  • Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Switzerland
  • Close of the 51st Session by the President of the Congress