Meetings of EU Commission Members on 2 October 2023

President Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg: receives Mr Manfred Weber, Chair of the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament; meets with Ms Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament; receives Mr Manfred Weber, Ms Iratxe García-Pérez and Mr Stéphane Séjourné, Chairs of the European People’s Party Group, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and the Renew Europe Groups in the European Parliament.

Ms Vĕra Jourová speaks via video conference with Ms Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE.

Mr Paolo Gentiloni in Strasbourg, France: meeting with Mr Ilia Darchiashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.

Ms Ylva Johansson hosts the ‘First Annual Conference on Countering the Financing of Terrorism’.

Mr Janez Lenarčič in Ljubljana, Slovenia: takes part as a high-level panellist at the first Slovenian Humanitarian Forum; attends a ceremony of a rescue engine being donated to Ukraine by the Slovenian government.

Ms Kadri Simson in Madrid, Spain: participates in the Climate and Energy Summit: Building a Grand Coalition to keep 1.5 °c within reach.

Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius receives members of the Committee for Environment, Climate and Energy Policy of the State Parliament of Baden-Wuerttenberg.

Ms Mairead McGuinness delivers a keynote speech at the  launch of the joint EU/OECD-INFE Financial Competence Framework for Children and Youth in the European Union; meets, in the margins of the event, with Mr Yoshiki Takeuchi, the Deputy Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).