After months of intensive debate, Parliament's Regional Development Committee passes its post-2013 cohesion policy package aimed at boosting EU regions.
MEPs were briefed on Foreign Ministers' thinking on Syria, trilogue talks over motorbikes continue, and the EP hosted regions for an air quality directive rethink.
Mariya Nedelcheva favours quotas for women on the boards of listed companies and Pervenche Berès denounces the social competition among the EU's poorest regions.