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  • 597th Plenary session — 18 - 19 June 2025

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    597th plenary session, with the following guests: Roxana Mînzatu, European Commission Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Korinna Schumann, Austrian Federal Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and Katarzyna Nowakowska, Polish Deputy Minister for Family, Labour and Social Policy; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the Belarusian democratic forces; Hadja Lahbib, European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Irena Moozová, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission Directorate-General for Justice and Belén Sanz Luque, Regional Director of UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. Web streaming

     

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  • EESC Info June 2025

    In this issue:

    • Activist Andrey Gnyot on the climate of repression in Belarus

    • UNHCR's Jean Nicolas Beuze on the need to strategically address forced displacement in the next MFF

      Focus on water:

    • Facing the Unknown – a documentary on the global water crisis produced by EESC member Paul Rübig
    • EU's outermost regions demand more than a symbolic action by Sabrina Cajoly
    • EurEau: the new EU Water Strategy falls short of restricting harmful PFAS uses
  • EESC Info April 2025

    In this issue:

    • EESC member Emilie Prouzet on the cost of living crisis: The price of a broken single market is too high
    • Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Ogarkova: A Europe of defence, a race against the clock
    • Civil Society Week special:
      • Diagnosing Europe: precarity and insecurity as the new normal by Albena Azmanova
      • ECI My Voice, My Choice: More than 1.2 million stand up for abortion rights
      • 15th Civil Society Prize: Meet the winners