European Parliament committee chairpersons and European commissioners agreed, on Wednesday 3 October, to speed up work on the proposals tabled in order to obtain concrete results by the European elections of May 2019.
The European Commission will present its work programme for 2019 on 23 October.
The meeting between the European Parliament committee chairs and the college of commissioners brought to a conclusion the structured dialogue held over the past year between the two sides, as planned in the framework agreement between the two institutions and in the institutional agreement on “better law-making”.
Both parties underline that progress should be made in the fields of the single market, digital strategy, the circular economy, the social agenda, migration and asylum, internal security, counter-terrorism, and the completion of the economic and monetary Union, as well as finalisation of the agreement on the next multiannual financial framework. Cecilia Wikström, Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs, noted that there are still major challenges to be addressed at the level of the EU - migration, for example - for which the Commission proposed review of the current rules relating to the Dublin Regulation, with the Parliament adopting this position by a large majority in November 2017. Nonetheless, there is still no common position among member states, Wikström said with regret. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)