EESC Info

In this issue:

• Stop ageism: EESC urges EU and Member States to create new strategy for older persons
• EESC puts water on the EU agenda with first concrete Blue Deal proposals
• Georgia – Another front for Russia
• EU Organic Awards 2023: EESC announces finalists
• Influencer advertising: EESC proposes EU regulation to draw red line

In this issue:

• Electricity market reform - EESC proposes "E-Facility" to buy and sell power
• The EU should ban unrepairable products
• The EESC proposes the creation of a European Food Policy Council
• Young people: Discriminated against solely based on their age
• Boško Savković: I am no Che Guevara, I am just one of the citizens asking for a safe country
• Pietro De Lotto: Faced with water challenges, the EU needs a Blue Deal

In this issue:

• EESC calls for EU legislation on preventing work-related psychosocial risks
• Thierry Libaert: For a genuine European right to repair
• Oleksandra Matviichuk: Ukraine will make NATO stronger
• Jan Dirx: Electricity market reform

In this issue:

• Democracy to guide the programme of the new EESC president
• Romanian member Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu is the new EESC Vice-President for Communication
• Poland's Krzysztof Pater is the new EESC Vice-President for Budget
• Who is who: the EESC's new leadership

In this issue:

• EESC discusses inclusive EU labour markets with Italian minister Marina Calderone
• Adequate minimum income – a viable road out of poverty
• EESC proposes actions to counter threats to EU democracy
• The surprise guest: Diandra Ní Bhuachalla - EESC delegate to COP 28

• It's time for an EU Blue Deal: the EESC launches works on water
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at the EESC: "Belarus must not be Putin’s consolation prize"
• Support for Ukrainian civil society must continue for "as long as it takes"
• Eugene Afineevsky: "Each one of us is a drop of water, together we are an ocean"

• 2023 Swedish Council Presidency: Ukraine still tops the agenda
• EU competitiveness is becoming more important than ever
• Tetyana Ogarkova: "The day of victory will come but it will not bring normality back"
• The EU should step up international cooperation to protect oceans
• Energy price crisis: EU must support consumers and businesses

• Spain's Fundación Secretariado Gitano and Romanian association SUS INIMA win the 2022 EESC Civil Society Prize for youth and Ukraine
• Did you know...? Interesting facts about the EESC Civil Society Prize winners
• In the winners' words: interviews with all the winners

In this issue:

• The financial dimension of gender equality still a blind spot in EU policies
• Olena Abramovych: Ukraine 2023: the fight must go on – even after victory
• EESC backs mandatory competitiveness check for EU policies and regulations
• Euro-Med cooperation after COVID-19: civil society organisations key to keeping the economy and society running

In this issue:

• #COP27: European civil society urges EU institutions and Member States to step up climate ambition
• EESC's strategic partner role reinforced by new EESC-Commission Cooperation Protocol
• Mobility should be recognised as an individual right
• EESC calls for a sustainable plant protein and plant oil strategy