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EESC's Civil Society Week – a living forum of democratic participation

Focus on Women's Rights:

• EESC marks the International Women's Day by championing women's voices
• Misogyny in the service of Russian imperialism, by Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen
• Women are the backbone of resistance, by Croatian feminist collective fAKTIV
• Equality means having a seat at the table where decisions are made, by The Brussels Binder
• Women in politics and the new frontline of online hate, by gender equality expert Barbara Helfferich

In this issue:

• Justice as a human right, by Oleksandra Matviichuk
• Ukraine’s stolen children, by Alina Dmytrenko
• Ukraine’s EU path, by Nadija Afanasieva
• Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s energy sector, by Nataliia Fiebrig

Also:

• The most beautiful (and cruellest) winter, by Tetyana Ogarkova
• The EESC’s recommendations on the 2026 European Semester, by Luca Jahier

In this issue

• Apply AI strategy, by Rudolf Kolbe
• Tackling TikTokcracy, by the Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI)
• TikTok: With scale comes responsibility
• Who you gonna call? Fact-checkers, by EDMO

Also:

• The 2025 Sakharov Prize laureates and finalists
• EESC backs My Voice, My Choice initiative, by José Antonio Moreno Diaz

In this issue:

• Stoyan Tchoukanov and Samira Ben Ali – EESC delegation at COP30

   

  Focus on Affordable Housing:

• Decisive political action can solve the housing crisis –John Comer and Thomas Kattnig, EESC
• Europe is running out of affordable homes – Diana Yordanova, Housing Europe
• Excessive rents are pushing people into poverty – Barbara Steenbergen, International Union of Tenants
• A roof over every student's head – Duarte Lopes, European Students' Union

In this issue:

• New EESC President Seamus Boland: Let’s put civil society at the heart of Europe
• New Vice-Presidents Alena Mastantuono and Marija Hanževački on the EESC’s priorities for the new term of office

Focus on poverty:

• MEP Maria Walsh on period poverty
• Eradicating poverty: promise or plan? – by the EAPN
• Ending child poverty is a human rights imperative – by Eurochild

In this issue:

• To be a 'first' ─ as a woman in politics, by German author Heike Specht
• Europe's start-ups and scale-ups, by EESC member Mira-Maria Danisman
• Focus on inclusion:
  • Be the person you are – Danish TV host Diana Magling
  • One ball, a thousand dreams – The Homeless World Cup Foundation
  • 200 years of Braille – European Blind Union
  • It's a tough time for empathy but we are not giving up ─ Romanian non-profit Ateliere Fără Frontiere

In this issue:

• The EESC signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Belarusian democratic forces
• Releasing political prisoners in Belarus is not a concession but a lifeline, by Hanna Liubakova, Belarusian journalist in exile
• Democratic Europe at a crossroads: between resilience, hybrid warfare and algorithmic radicalisation, by the EESC’s Cristian Pîrvulescu
• Towards the eradication of poverty, by EESC member Krzysztof Balon

In this issue:

• Activist Andrey Gnyot on the climate of repression in Belarus

• UNHCR's Jean Nicolas Beuze on the need to strategically address forced displacement in the next MFF

  Focus on water:

• Facing the Unknown – a documentary on the global water crisis produced by EESC member Paul Rübig
• EU's outermost regions demand more than a symbolic action by Sabrina Cajoly    
• EurEau: the new EU Water Strategy falls short of restricting harmful PFAS uses

En este número:

• Emilie Prouzet, miembro del CESE, sobre la crisis del coste de la vida: «El precio de un mercado único fragmentado es demasiado alto»
• «La Europa de la defensa, una carrera contra reloj», por Tetyana Ogarkova, periodista ucraniana
• Especial Semana de la Sociedad Civil:
  • «Un diagnóstico para Europa: la precariedad y la inseguridad como nueva normalidad», por Albena Azmanova
  • La ICE «Mi voz, mi decisión» reúne más de 1,2 millones de firmas en apoyo del derecho al aborto
  • 15.º Premio Sociedad Civil: Conozca a los ganadores

En este número:

• «Defensa europea: se trata de gastar con sensatez y eficiencia», por Marcin Nowacki, miembro del CESE
• «El plan ReArmar Europa», por Nicolas Gros-Verheyde

• Especial «¡Tu Europa, tu voz!»:

  — «Para involucrar a los jóvenes no basta con marcar una casilla», por Bruno António

  — «Animar para empoderar», por Kristýna Bulvasová

  — «La juventud moldava en “¡Tu Europa, tu voz!”: construyendo una generación que vea más allá de las limitaciones», entrevista con Mădălina-Mihaela Antoci.