The following pre-recorded videos will be available online around two hours after their delivery

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• Full sessions: Morning / Afternoon
• Opening of the 47th Session of the Congress by the President, Marc Cools
• Debate: Verification of new members’ credentials
• Inaugural address by Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Debate: Local democracy as a pilar of peace and stability in South-East Europe: 20th anniversary of the creation of NALAS
• Statement by Dušan RAICEVIC, President NALAS, Mayor of Bar, Montenegro
• Statement by Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Debate: Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine, destruction of cultural heritage in Ukraine
• Statements by:
• Mykola TOCHYTSKYI, Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
• Anastasia BONDAR, Deputy Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization
• Mykola LUKASHUK, Chair of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Ukraine
• Debate: Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Finland
• Statement by Kristiina KOKKO, State Secretary to the minister of local and regional government, Finland
• Debate: Fostering a circular economy at local and regional level
• Debate: Global outreach of the Congress
• Statements by:
• Sami KANAAN, President of the Global Cities Hub
• Bernd VOEHRINGER, Vice-President of the Congress
• Debate: Local and regional democracy around the world
• Statements by :
• Yesset BAIKEN, Deputy Mayor, Astana, Kazakhstan
• Ahmed Salem DEKLE, Member of the Regional Council of Nouakchott, Mauritania
• Rahma OUAZZANI TAIBI, Deputy Mayor of Rabat in charge of international co-operation, Morocco

Wednesday 16 October 2024

Morning -  Chamber of Local Authorities, Hemicyle

• Full session
• Opening of the session of the Chamber by the President
• Communication of the President of the Chamber
• Debate: Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Iceland 
• Statement by Svandís SVAVARSDÓTTIR, Minister of Infrastructure, Iceland
• Debate: Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Latvia
• Statement by Inga BĒRZIŅA, Minister for Smart Administration and Regional Development, Latvia
• Thematic debate:  Local elected representatives, actors for the protection of human rights
• Statement by Mattias Guyomar, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (France)
• Debate: Monitoring of the application of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in Malta

Morning – Chamber of Regions, room 1

• Full session
• Opening of the session of the Chamber by the First Vice-President
• Communication of the First Vice-President of the Chamber
• Statement by the newly elected President of the Chamber
• Debate: Regions with special status
• Statements by:
• Jörgen PETTERSSON, Speaker of the Parliament of Åland, Finland
• Mikel Anton ZARRAGOITIA, European Affairs Director, Basque Government, Spain
• Debate: Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and regional governance
• Statements by:
• David ERAY, Congress Spokesperson on AI, Minister, Canton of Jura, Switzerland
• María BOBILLO VARELA, Director of the Office of Strategic Support and Planning Agency for the Technological Modernization of Galicia, Spain
• Marco REUTER, Head of the Digitalisation and Innovation division at the Representation of the State of Hesse to the EU, Germany
• Debate: The role of regions in international co-operation for the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine
• Statements by:
• Tetyana YEHOROVA-LUTSENKO, President of the Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils, Chair of Kharkiv Regional Council, Ukraine
• Pavlo ZHURBA, Deputy Head of Ternopil Regional State Administration, Ukraine
• Anita SCHNEIDER, President (Landrätin) of the Gießen district, Germany
• Patrick MOLINOZ, Vice President of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, President of the CIVEX (CoR), France
• Christian DEBEVE, Regional Councillor (Région Grand Est), France

Afternoon 

• Full session
• Statement by Arnoldas ABRAMAVIČIUS, Vice-Minister of the Interior of Lithuania on behalf of the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers
• Debate: Recurring issues based on assessments resulting from Congress monitoring of the European Charter of Local Self-Government and election observation missions (reference period 2021-2024)
• Debate: Ageing communities – ensuring access to quality social care for older persons
• Statement by Rui Moreira, Mayor of Porto, Portugal
• Debate: Congress Rejuvenating Politics Initiative: 10 years of making democracy younger
• Statement by Veronique BERTHOLLE, France, Congress thematic spokesperson on Youth

Thursday 17 October 2024

• Full session
• Debate: Observation of local elections in Türkiye (31 March 2024)
• Debate: Local outreach of the Congress
• Statements by:
• Fabrizio ROSSI, Secretary General, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
• Kelmend ZAJAZI, Secretary General of Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South East Europe (NALAS)