590th Plenary session 18-19 Sept 2024

590th Plenary session, with the following guests and debates:

• Promoting the social integration of persons with disabilities and persons with changed working capacity, with Ádám Kósa, State Secretary for Disability Policy at the Hungary's Ministry of the Interior and Nadia Hadad, Board member and Head of the Social Policy Committee, European Disability Forum, linked to the adoption of opinion SOC/807 on the Social integration of persons with disabilities and persons with changed working capacity, at 15:00 on Wednesday 18 September 2024

• Charting the EU’s democratic progress: a resolution for the next legislative mandate, with Brikena Xhomaqi, co-chair of the EESC Liaison Group and President of the Ad Hoc Group on the EESC Resolution, Véronique Willems, Secretary-General, SME United, Claes-Mikael Stahl, Deputy Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation (remotely), Jessica Machacova, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the European Anti-Poverty Network, Lotte Prins, President of the Dutch National Youth Council, YEYS representative and the rapporteurs of the resolution on Charting the EU’s democratic progress: a resolution for the next legislative mandate: Christa Schweng, Cinzia Del Rio and Ioannis Vardakastanis, at 16:00 on Wednesday 18 September 2024

• Rule of law and fundamental rights in the EU, with Joachim Herrmann, Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary- General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and Alexandrina Najmowicz, Secretary-General of the European Civic Forum, at 09:00 on Thursday 19 September 2024

• 2040 climate target, linked to opinion NAT/931 on the EU Climate target for 2040* with KurtVandenberghe, Director-General of the European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, Chair of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (remotely) and Teppo Säkkinen, rapporteur of the 2040 climate target opinion, at 11:00 on Thursday 19 September 2024