European Economic and Social Committee
In his speech on the state of the Union, Commission president Juncker made it perfectly clear that action had to be taken to tackle the challenges of migration and the refugee crisis, to work out a social agenda to finally make headway towards a triple-A social Europe and to think about the value of Europe and the need for more Europe.
Restart or kick-start?
The new Commission and the newly elected EP have left their starting blocks. After all the promises, "musts" and "shoulds", we are now entering a phase of real policy-making.
The Liaison Group held its meeting on 5 November 2014 with both sets of members present: the EESC members and the CSO members. Together with the other co-chair of the LG, EESC President Henri Malosse, we had agreed to hold new meetings only when there was sufficient food for thought and debate.
The Liaison Group was created by the EESC in 2004 in order to forge links and cooperate more closely with European organisations and civil society networks.
Ten years later, the Group was ready for a new boost to better fulfil its role, a point underlined by the EESC Bureau in its reflection on the future of the EESC...
For nearly 10 years, European civil society organisations have been contributing to the work of the EESC through the Liaison Group and directly with EESC groups, sections and members, in consultations, hearings and events. As the Liaison Group is the only institutional link which we, European civil society organisations, have with the European institutions, it is of particular importance to us. ...
Le cœur de l’Europe bat toujours!
Renaissance ou commémoration, telle était la question du 60e anniversaire des traités de Rome, et une fois de plus, c’est la société civile qui a rappelé les promesses...
