25/06/2020
Président du CESE
EESC President
EESC President Luca Jahier sends letters of condolence and solidarity to Lebanon, addressing HE Mr Fadi Hajali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary - Head of Mission (EU), Mission of the Lebanese Republic to the European Union and Mr Charles Arbid, President of the Economic and Social Council of Lebanon.
06/08/2020
After five days of tough negotiations, the EU has reached a deal to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an unprecedented decision for volume, content and key elements of innovation. Europe, today, is stronger than ever.
22/07/2020
The new proposal presented last Friday by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, ahead of the European Council of 16-17 July contains highly critical issues, even though it maintains the initial volume grants/loans of the Recovery fund.
13/07/2020
Today starts the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The European agenda could hardly have been more challenging: the adoption of the Recovery plan to repair the consequences of the Covid 19 pandemic, the crucial Brexit negotiations and the launch of the Conference on the future of Europe.
01/07/2020
On 25 May, Mr George Floyd, a 46-year-old US citizen, died of asphyxia during his arrest by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department. As the shocking images of this brutal arrest of an African-American citizen spread across the world, a growing wave of protests in the USA and beyond shook people's conscience.
04/06/2020
The wind of change is blowing more wildly than ever. Entrenched taboos are falling away, and things that had been awaited for more than 20 years are happening within days and weeks. We must all not waste this historic moment.
25/05/2020
Les organisations européennes de la société civile doivent être des partenaires égaux sur la voie de la reprise de l’après-COVID qui mène vers
19/05/2020
The EESC gives its full support to EU negotiator and calls for a consensus-building attitude
With the third round of future relationship negotiations with the United Kingdom ongoing, EU civil society is united in calling for collective responsibility to incentivise both sides to reach a deal and prevent damaging even further our chances for a recovery in the post-Covid era.
13/05/2020
"La paix mondiale ne peut être sauvegardée que par des efforts créatifs, proportionnels aux dangers qui la menacent.
08/05/2020
Il y a soixante-dix ans, un groupe de visionnaires a jeté les bases de la reconstruction économique, sociale et morale de l’après-guerre, donnant vie au plus grand projet de progrès de l’histoire de l’humanité.
«Faire l’Europe, c’est faire la paix. C’est faire travailler les hommes ensemble au-delà des frontières.» Mais comme l’a dit Churchill, si la politique se nourrit d’idéaux, elle a ensuite besoin d’itinéraires, de choix, de règles et d’institutions communes.
08/05/2020
Le sommet UE-Balkans occidentaux, qui se tiendra demain, ne peut que mettre en avant, une fois pour toutes, le fait que l’élargissement effectif d
05/05/2020
Anticipant le vote qui doit avoir lieu aujourd’hui au Parlement européen sur une résolution énergique, destinée à donner le ton à la réunion des chefs d’État et de gouvernement de la semaine prochaine, et me plaçant dans la perspective du train de mesures substantiel que l’Eurogroupe a proposé la semaine dernière, ce 9 avril, pour soutenir l’économie européenne, j’ai la conviction que maintenant plus que jamais, l’UE, telle le phénix, a l’occasion et même l’obligation de renaître de ses cendres.
16/04/2020
Les réponses apportées à la crise de la COVID-19 ont eu une incidence négative sur un certain nombre de droits fondamentaux.
15/04/2020
The CODIV-19 is forcing us apart with lockdowns, but at the same showing us that we must stick together if we want to defeat the pandemic. We must react jointly and swiftly to address this unexpected crisis both in Europe and in other regions of the world, because the virus knows no borders, skin colors or social status.
08/04/2020
Pour un continent comptant près de 1,3 milliards d’habitants, l’Afrique a jusqu’à présent été relativement épargnée par la pandémie du COVID-19, ave
02/04/2020
Aujourd’hui, je continue plus que jamais de me considérer comme un Européen et d’en tirer fierté.
31/03/2020
In less than 15 days, the EU has taken ground-breaking decisions to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and after some initial hesitation it has proven that Member States can simply not do without a coherent, coordinated approach in front of a global pandemic.
26/03/2020
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has strongly supported the enlargement of the European Union to the six Western Balkans countries provided they fulfil all the necessary criteria for membership. In the aftermath of the Council's non-decision to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia in October 2019, we have reacted swiftly by adopting, on 31 October, a Resolution expressing our profound disappointment by the lack of unanimity from the Member States.
26/03/2020
Today's ECOFIN decision did not seem to fully respond to the magnitude of the challenge that the EU is facing.
23/03/2020
Si aujourd’hui, confinés dans nos foyers, nous craignons d’être contaminés, de perdre des proches, de perdre notre emploi et de
23/03/2020
Following the EESC declaration "COVID-19: Now, we are either a Union or we are nothing", adopted by the Bureau on March 17, 2020, President Luca Jahier has urged today all institutions, authorities, regulators, both at European or national level, to take urgent and decisive actions to contain and fight against the pandemic and address the risks o
20/03/2020
L’épidémie de COVID-19 constitue désormais une situation d’urgence à l’évolution rapide: les chiffres et les mesures nécessaires évoluent
17/03/2020
President's programme
Dare to dream the Europe of tomorrow
Vidéos
04/06/2020
Quote of the day
We have now more than ever the chance and the obligation to rise from the ashes of the #Coronacrisis like the Phoenix. Europe must not only be saved, it must be relaunched!