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  • EESC Info October 2025

    In this issue:

    • New EESC President Seamus Boland: Let’s put civil society at the heart of Europe
    • New Vice-Presidents Alena Mastantuono and Marija Hanževački on the EESC’s priorities for the new term of office

    Focus on poverty:

    • MEP Maria Walsh on period poverty
    • Eradicating poverty: promise or plan? – by the EAPN
    • Ending child poverty is a human rights imperative – by Eurochild
  • EESC Info September 2025

    In this issue:

    • To be a 'first' ─ as a woman in politics, by German author Heike Specht
    • Europe's start-ups and scale-ups, by EESC member Mira-Maria Danisman
    • Focus on inclusion:
      • Be the person you are – Danish TV host Diana Magling
      • One ball, a thousand dreams – The Homeless World Cup Foundation
      • 200 years of Braille – European Blind Union
      • It's a tough time for empathy but we are not giving up ─ Romanian non-profit Ateliere Fără Frontiere