49th Session - live
- Hemicycle: ORI - DE - EN - FR - IT - TR - UA
- Room 1 (Wednesday morning, 26 October): ORI - DE - EN - FR - IT - TR -UA
28 October 2025
- Full session (morning)
- Full session (afternoon)
- Opening of the 49th Session of the Congress by the President Marc Cools
- Freedom of Assembly
- Statement by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine **
- Ukraine: Towards a just peace
- Attacks on freedom of speech in political assemblies
- Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Poland
- Observation of county and municipal elections in Finland (13 April 2025)
- Proposed amendments to the Congress Rules and Procedures and the Code of Conduct of Congress members
29 October 2025
Morning – Chamber of Local Authorities, Hemicycle
- Full session
- Opening of the session of the Chamber by the President Bernd VÖHRINGER
- Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Slovenia
- Addressing the housing crisis in European cities through social housing innovations
- Thematic debate: “Drugs in our cities: local authorities on the front line”
Morning – Chamber of Regions, Room 1
- Full session
- Opening of the session of the Chamber by the President Cecilia DALMAN EEK
- Observation of State Elections in Hamburg, Germany (2 March 2025)
- Statement by Nadim AHMAD, Deputy Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD
- Thematic debate: The role of Ukraine’s regional authorities in facing war-related challenges
- Thematic debate: The relationship between regional and local authorities
Afternoon
- Full session
- Maltese Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (14 May 2025 - 14 November 2025)
- An additional protocol to the European Charter of Local Self-Government on the environment
- Reform of the European Local Democracy Week
- Preparing European cities and regions for security crises**
- Youth participation: Shaping Europe’s democratic future
- Round table
- Revision of the European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life
- Congress Rejuvenating Politics Initiative: presentation of the grassroots projects by the 2025 youth delegates
30 October 2025
- Full session
- Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in the Republic of Moldova
- Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Greece
- Statement by Theodoros LIVANIOS, Minister of the Interior, Greece
- Congress Strategy on the Rule of Law at Local and Regional Levels (2025-2028)
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