Together with the delegation of EESC Members, President Röpke participated in this year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) for the global stocktaking of the progress made towards climate change. Committed to enhancing youth participation in climate action, the EESC Delegation was joined by a Youth Delegate, Diandra Ní Bhuachalla.

We welcome the provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act reached by EU lawmakers. The text enshrines into law several crucial recommendations we made in our opinion of September 2021, such as banning social scoring, irrespective of who performs it. As we stressed back then, there is no place in the EU for such practises.