The main highlights of the session were:
- State of Regions and Cities in the European Union with:
- Vasco Alves Cordeiro, President of the European Committee of the Regions
- Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (video message)
- Younous Omarjee, Vice President of the European Parliament
- Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms
- Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine (remote)
- Olena Sydorenko, Mayor of Orzhytsia, Ukraine (remote)
- Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania
- Debate on 20 years after the 2004 EU enlargement: Lessons learnt and looking ahead with:
- Marek Woźniak (PL/EPP), Head of the Polish delegation in the CoR, in representation of the 10 national delegations of the 2004 enlargement countries
- Nikola Dobroslavic (HR/EPP), CoR rapporteur on the Enlargement package 2023 - Western Balkans and Türkiye
- Antje Grotheer (DE/PES), CoR rapporteur on the Enlargement Package 2023 – Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
- Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko, President of the Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils (UAROR), Head of Kharkiv Regional Council, co-chair of the Conference of the Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP)
- Danela Arsovska, Mayor of Skopje, North Macedonia, co-chair of the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) with North Macedonia
- Debate on the priorities of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU with:
- Barna Pál Zsigmond, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of European Union Affairs of Hungary
- Debate on the investment opportunities for cities and regions with:
- Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank
- Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank
