Regulators and civil society stakeholders will discuss on how could look like a future EU-wide layer of pooled/solidarity funds to such insurance schemes that increases protection of EU citizens and businesses.
The takeaways will feed the discussions on our opinion ‘Towards a European system of natural disaster risk management’.
Recent natural disasters have showed the limitations of insurance markets. This is an own-initiative opinion intended to deliver concrete policy proposals to add an EU-wide layer of pooled/solidarity funds to insurance schemes, drawing on the evidence and proposals of the joint paper by EIOPA and the ECB Towards a European system for natural catastrophe risk management.
The legislative package proposed by the European Commission are likely to affect the availability of financial instruments for EU citizens, the returns of their savings and national policies on supplementary pensions. This event will gather institutions and civil society stakeholders.
The Commission proposal is an important element of the Savings and Investments Union agenda. The EESC recognises the benefits of a multi-pillar pensions system, calls for a holistic approach, proposes a number of amendments to the legislative proposals to better serve its objectives, and explores changes on governance.
Healthcare professionals and civil society representatives called on policy-makers to introduce a ‘Health check’ for all future policies. Their demand just before the elections to the European Parliament: the ‘Right to Health’ must remain at the top of the EU and national agendas, as citizens demanded at the Conference on the Future of Europe.
Conference on 'The State of Health in the EU', organised by the EESC Civil Society Organisations' Group, in partnership with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège and the Hôpital de la Citadelle, in the framework of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU, 4 June, Liège (Belgium)
Conference in the framework of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union
Event type
Conference
Location
16 Place du 20-Août
Liège
Belgium
The Civil Society Organisations' Group organised this conference in partnership with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège and the Hôpital de la Citadelle.
Our members present their ideas for the future of health policy in the EU
Guest articles by Marc De Paoli (Managing Director, Liège University Hospital), Sylvianne Portugaels (Director-General, Citadelle Hopital) and Martyna Kowacka (Chief Commissioner, Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP))
Interview with rapporteur Krzysztof Balon on the EESC opinion 'Digitalisation in social security'
Report on our recent #EUelections2024 conference on 'Building Together the EU We Want'
The rules of Solvency II, the 2009 EU regulatory framework for insurance firms, have proved their worth but need to be adapted to new circumstances. In an opinion adopted at its plenary session on 23 February, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) welcomed the initiative of the European Commission (EC) to revamp Solvency II. The Committee stresses the considerable interest of civil society in ensuring the stability of the financial sector, and therefore calls for sound capital requirements and risk preparedness in the insurance sector.
