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The EESC brings together representatives from all areas of organised civil society, who give their independent advice on EU policies and legislation. The EESC's326 Members are organised into three groups: Employers, Workers and Various Interests.
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Partnership event by the EAPN and the Civil Society Organisations' Group
Event type
Conference
Location
Rue Van Maerlant 2
Brussels
Belgium
The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) will launch its latest Poverty Watch Report at an event co-organised by the EAPN and the EESC Civil Society Organisations' Group. This is an in-person event that will take place at the EESC in Brussels and be webstreamed.
Les défis liés à l’eau: examiner le point de vue des consommateurs — faire progresser le pacte bleu pour l’Europe
Event type
Conference
Location
Bâtiment Jacques Delors - salle JDE 62
Bruxelles
Belgium
Cette année, la Journée européenne du consommateur a eu pour titre «Les défis liés à l’eau: examiner le point de vue des consommateurs — faire progresser le pacte bleu pour l’Europe» et s'est déroulée le 9 décembre au CESE. Elle a couvert, d'une part, la protection des consommateurs en ce qui concerne l'accès à l'eau à un prix abordable, y compris les consommateurs vulnérables, en abordant également les aspects de la qualité et de la quantité de l'eau. D'autre part, il a été question d'une consommation économe en eau, en mettant l'accent sur l'évolution des habitudes de consommation afin de rendre la consommation d'eau plus durable, en utilisant des outils et des technologies innovants.
Press Center of the Secretariat General for Communication and Media, Frangoudi 11 & Alexandrou Pantou | Athens, Greece
This conference in Athens is the third event on disinformation being hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) as part of its ongoing project aiming to fight disinformation with the help of civil society.
The EESC will organise two side events at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity - COP16 which this year will be held in Cali, Colombia from 21 October to 1 November 2024. The side events will be on Towards a circular economy in harmony with nature and on Mainstreaming biodiversity in climate action: the role of nature-based solutions.
Competitiveness is a key priority of both the Hungarian Presidency and the new von der Leyen Commission for the next political cycle. The issue will be addressed with our members and members' organisations at the extraordinary Group meeting on 8 October in Budapest. The debate will focus on the agri-food and industrial sectors.
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This years' meeting of the EESC's Western Balkans Follow-up Committee outside of Brussels took place on 15 October 2024 in the Europe House in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and will include a hearing with the social partners and civil society organisations (CSOs).
The goal of the hearing was to listen to the views on the role of civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as to hear their concerns, and to convey these messages to the political authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the EU.
As in the previous years, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will actively take part in the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP29, which this year will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024.
Pour participer en personne, une inscription préalable est requise. La période d'inscription est terminée. Vous pouvez suivre l’événement en direct via le web streaming.