EIF Members are invited to join our Steering Committee Chair Marina Kaljurand MEP, our Board Chair Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini and our Director General Maria Rosa Gibellini at our 26th Annual General Assembly meeting. The meeting will take place over a seated lunch at the European Parliament.

Silvia Bartolini, Expert for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission EVP Virkkunen's Cabinet, will join us as our guest of honour for an exchange of views on the upcoming technological sovereignty package.

A briefing note will be circulated to registered participants in advance. 

Votes on resolutions will be cast in person on site by one representative per organisation.

• Draft Programme

  Welcome by Marina Kaljurand MEP and EIF Chair

  Guest of honour

  Silvia Bartolini, Expert for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission EVP Virkkunen's Cabinet

  Exchange of views with participants under the Chatham House rule

  General Assembly meeting

  1. Presentation of EIF in 2025 and 2026 by the Steering Committee Chair/Director General

  1. EIF in 2025

  1. Activities
  2. Membership
  3. Governance

  2. EIF in 2026

  1. Governance*
  2. Membership
  3. Activities
  

  2. Presentation of EIF in 2025 and 2026 by the Board Chair/Director General

  1. EIF in 2025

  1. Human resources
  2. Discussion and approval of the 2025 accounts**
  3. Discharge of the Board for the year 2025*

  2. EIF in 2026

  1. Discussion and approval of 2026 budget**
  

  3. AOB

  *Proposed resolution to be voted on by the General Assembly – all members
  **Proposed resolution to be voted on by the General Assembly – except for MEPs