The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) stresses that a greener and fairer economy is needed and that the EU Clean Hydrogen Strategy provides an opportunity to achieve exactly that.
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is throwing its support behind the Commission's strategy for an integrated energy system but warns that the issue of security of supply using green energy sources remains unsolved.
The UN's special envoy on poverty, Olivier De Schutter, participated in the January plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), revealing the conclusions of his mission to the EU institutions. Despite growth and stability, poverty still remains an issue, leaving some 92 million people at risk.
En un debate mantenido durante el pleno con la comisaria europea de Asuntos de Interior, Ylva Johansson, el Comité Económico y Social Europeo (CESE) valoró positivamente el nuevo Pacto sobre Migración y Asilo, aunque también criticó su falta de ambición y audacia. Excesivamente enfocado hacia las fronteras y los retornos, el Pacto propone muy pocas soluciones viables para adoptar un planteamiento solidario de la gestión migratoria.
In its opinion on the Euro area's economic policy for 2021, the European Economic and Social Committee welcomes the Commission's recommendations, but calls for a shift in fiscal rules towards a more prosperity-oriented form of economic governance, including a golden rule for public investment.
On 13 January the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) of the European Economic and Social committee (EESC) held its inaugural meeting to welcome new members and adopt the 2021work programme.
The CCMI president, Pietro Francesco De Lotto, vice-president Monika Sitarova and the EESC's members and external delegates, whose term of office runs from November 2020 to November 2025, adopted the CCMI's Political Guidelines and Work Programme for 2021 unanimously.
To discuss ways to accelerate action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a sustainable recovery, the EESC Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment held a debate on 15 December in connection with the Europe Sustainable Development Report 2020, published on 8 December. The report is a joint initiative by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), in collaboration with the EESC.
En el seminario web organizado por la ComisiónConsultiva de las TransformacionesIndustriales (CCMI), que contó con la participación de miembros del CESE, delegadosexternos y partesinteresadas de la industriaminera, se evaluó el impacto de las nuevastecnologías en la producciónsostenible de materias primas y se hizohincapié en los beneficios, las limitaciones y los posibles
