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1. Highlights - AFET ad-hoc mission to Switzerland – 11-12 September 2025 - Committee on Foreign Affairs

   

   A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by Chair David McAllister, will travel to Bern, Switzerland from 11 to 12 September 2025. During the visit, Members will discuss notably the new broad package of agreements that aim to consolidate, deepen and expand the bilateral relations between the EU and Switzerland.

   
   

   Political agreement on this broad package was reached in December 2024. In Bern, Members will have the opportunity to exchange with representatives of the government and parliament on the upcoming ratification processes on both sides.

   
   Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

2. Highlights - AFET ad-hoc mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina – 16-18 September 2025 - Committee on Foreign Affairs

   

   A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by MEP Matjaž Nemec (S&D, SI) will travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 16 to 18 September 2025. This will be the first official visit of the AFET Committee to the Western Balkans in the 10th legislative term.

   
   

   The visit aims to underline the Committee's commitment to Bosnia and Herzegovina's European integration, grounded in unity, sovereignty, territorial integrity. Members will discuss Bosnia and Herzegovina's progress, and the further reforms needed to advance in its accession path towards the EU.

   
   Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

3. Highlights - AFET mission to Canada – 16-18 September 2025 - Committee on Foreign Affairs

   

   A delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), led by Chair David McAllister, will travel to Ottawa and Toronto from 16 to 18 September 2025. This will be the AFET Committee's first official visit to Canada under the European Parliament's current mandate and after the 2025 Canadian federal elections.

   
   

   During the trip, Members will discuss how to further strengthen the EU's strategic partnership with Canada, reinforce the shared commitment to supporting Ukraine, and jointly address challenges such as the situation in the Middle East, China's growing global influence and geopolitical competition in the Arctic. Insights gathered from the visit will inform the Committee's ongoing work on the Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the light of the current geopolitical context.

   
   Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

4. Highlights - AFET hearing on promoting an EU feminist foreign policy - Committee on Foreign Affairs

   

   On Monday, 22 September 2025 in room Spaak 3C50 (16:00-17:30), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) will hold a public hearing on promoting an EU feminist foreign policy. This hearing brings together Margot Wallström, who launched the world's first feminist foreign policy in 2014 when she was Foreign Minister of Sweden, and Aude Maio-Coliche, the EU Ambassador for Equality, to discuss how an EU feminist foreign policy could take shape and what the EU is currently doing in this field.

   
   

   A Feminist Foreign Policy is an approach that puts gender equality at the centre of foreign policy and highlights resources, representation and rights. The hearing aims to assess the current level of ambition and implementation of the EU's foreign policy as regards gender equality, and provide inspiration and concrete examples for continued work in this area.

   
   Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

5. Latest news - Upcoming SANT committee meetings - Committee on Public Health

   Next SANT committee meeting(s) will take place in Brussels on:

   • Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 10:30 to 11:30 and 15:00 to 18:30
   • Thursday, 25 September 2025, 9:00 to 12:00

   
   SANT meeting calendar 2025

   
   Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP