Upcoming events

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  • The EU-Serbia Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) will hold its 17th meeting on 5 April 2024 at the EESC in Brussels, Belgium. It is a platform established within the institutional framework of the EU‑Serbia Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), enabling representatives of both the EU and the Serbian civil society to monitor the country's accession negotiations, discuss issues of common interest and point out concerns to be tackled on the Serbian path towards the European Union.

    Main topics of the 17th meeting of the EU-Serbia JCC will be:

    Current state of play in EU-Serbia relations and the accession process

    • Elections in Serbia
    • Possibilities of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans in Serbia
    • Overview of the rule of law situation in Serbia
  • Partnership event co-organised by the EAPN and the EESC Civil Society Organisations' Group

    This event is open to the public. It is an in-person event that will be webstreamed. Prior registration for in-person participation is required. Register by 1 April at: REGISTRATION - Unsustainable Welfare States and Risk of Austerity (google.com)

  • How civil society can contribute to the swift and effective design and implementation of the cohesion funds?

    Online Public debate in the framework of the opinion on "The role of cohesion policy in upcoming rounds of EU enlargement".

  • Rural Pact debate #5

    With this debate, the EESC wants to contribute to reflections on the foundations of a just transition framework on the agri-food sector to achieve a sustainable food system and move forward with concrete recommendations, for example, looking at the skills, capacity and mental support needed, or identifying some key policy areas and legal leverage points that could be triggered to start a just food transition for the EU.

    Given the link between agriculture and rural areas and farmers with food production, the recommendations of this opinion will also have a positive impact on rural development.

  • Lessons learned from the first years of the implementation of the programming period 2021-2027

    Public debate on 9th Cohesion report: Lessons learned from the first years of the implementation of the programming period 2021-2027, in the framework of the ECO section meeting.

  • Resilient and Efficient Energy for a Future-proof and Secure Economy

    The objective of the conference is to build on the European Economic Security Strategy towards forward-looking strategic planning based on the assessment of threats, risks and vulnerabilities. In this respect, the focus will be on energy supply at stable, predictable and affordable prices which comes from sustainable sources, as a cornerstone for European industrial competitiveness. The need for a sustainable energy mix and energy systems, including solutions for storage of energy from renewable sources, are amongst the main factors that will determine European competitiveness in the years to come.

     

  • This half-day high-level conference, organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in partnership with the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA), Water Europe and Veolia, will bring together European and Bulgarian stakeholders, policymakers, industry representatives, organised civil society, academia and media.

  • The conference is open to the public. You can either join in person or from remote. Prior registration for both is required. Please register here until 11 April 2024.

  • How cohesion policy will contribute to the convergence? What is the role of the civil society on the effective design and implementation of the cohesion funds?

    One of the most important aspects of the enlargement process will be the cohesion policy and the structural funds.