Franco-German session in Paris: Future of cooperation in focus!

Franco-German session in Paris: Future of cooperation in focus!

Paris, Frankreich - On June 11, 2025, the upcoming eleventh session of the German-French Parliamentary Assembly . This will take place in Paris on Monday, June 16, 2025. The session is opened at 11 a.m. and can be followed live on the Bundestag website.

The session is opened by Julia Klöckner, the President of the German Bundestag, and Yaël Braun-Pivet, the President of the Assemblée Nationale. A central goal of this meeting is the election of the board and the co-chair.

program and topics

An important agenda item is the general pronunciation of "the perspectives of Franco-German cooperation", which will take around an hour. As part of the meeting, a joint hearing will take place in the afternoon from 2:15 p.m., which will speak, among other things, Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, and Marc Ferracci, French Minister of Industry and Energy.

Furthermore, the vote on templates brought in and the treatment of reports on the parliamentary cooperation between 2023 and 2024 are on the agenda. Another highlight is the award of the Franco-German parliamentary award 2025.

background to the assembly

The Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly was founded on March 25, 2019 to develop proposals on cross-border topics and to promote the joint implementation of EU guidelines. With a seat in Berlin and Paris, the meeting consists of 100 members who are evenly distributed to the two countries. Their official working languages ​​are German and French.

Although the meeting organizes important discussions and votes, it has no binding resolutions and does not have its own budget. Over the years, she has already held several sessions that take place in Germany and France.