At its plenary session on 3 December, the EESC held the debate on Cooperatives, with Jeroen Douglas, Director-General at the International Cooperative Alliance, Carlien van Empel, Director of the ILO Office for the EU and the Benelux, Amal Chevreau, Head of Unit at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, and Dr Joachim Schwerin, Principal Economist, Responsible Business Conduct Unit within the DG GROW of the EU Commission. Read the key messages of the members of the EESC Civil Society Organisations’ Group.

At its plenary session on 4 December, the EESC held the debate on Thirty COPs later and a decade after the Paris Agreement: assessing global climate action and opportunities for civil society, with Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, Ivone Kaizeler, Deputy Head of Multilateral Affairs Unit within the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) of the EU Commission and Samira Ben Ali, EESC Youth Delegate to COP. Read the key messages of the members of the EESC Civil Society Organisations’ Group.

At its plenary session on 3 December, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a debate on the next multiannual financial framework, with Piotr Serafin, European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Carla Tavares, Member of the European Parliament and Professor Enrico Giovannini, former Italian Minister, currently Scientific Director of ASviS. Read the key messages of the members of the EESC Civil Society Organisations’ Group.