Military mobility

Download — EESC-2025-04194-00-00-PA-TRA — (TEN/0869)

European Grids Package

Download — EESC-2025-03854-00-01-PA-TRA — (TEN/0863)

Tackling Energy Poverty through Affordable and Sustainable Housing

Download — EESC-2025-03564-00-01-PA-TRA — (TEN/0866)
Statement by
Séamus Boland, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

The developments in Iran and the Middle East region are of great concern. 

I call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to protect civilians. 

Above all, I am deeply distressed by the loss of civilian lives in all the territories affected. 

The webstream will be available the day of the hearing.

What is in it for organised civil society ?
Event type
Public hearing

Public hearing on EU Budget expenditure tracking and performance framework. What is in it for organised civil society ? in the framework of the opinion ECO/698 EU Budget expenditure tracking and performance framework.

By Rudolf KOLBE, Vice-President of the EESC Civil Society Organisations’ Group, representing the Austrian Federal Conference of the Liberal Professions and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineering Consultants

By Katrīna LEITĀNE, Vice-President of the EESC Youth Group and Civil Society Organisations’ Group, representing the National Youth Council of Latvia

EU and Brazilian civil society pledged closer collaboration on safeguarding democracy, the Mercosur trade deal, social inclusion and climate action during the tenth meeting of the EU-Brazil Civil Society Round Table, which took place on 25-26 February 2026 at the EESC.