EESC Info

  • In this issue:

    • #CivSocWeek is coming on 4-7 March
    • Emilie Prouzet: Long-term competitiveness, mapping factors and actors to chart a way forward
    • Ana Gomes: Rising above the far right in Europe – causes, and the remedies needed
    • Ukraine, two years on
  • In this issue:

    • In memory of Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission. Tribute given by Sebastien Maillard, Director of the Jacques Delors Institute and Lorenzo Consoli, EU Correspondent
    • COP28: Civil society to push for more action to save climate
    • European Disability Card – one step closer to achieving free movement for people with disabilities in the EU
    • EESC demands political efforts to eradicate homelessness be stepped up
  • In this issue:

    • Willem Vriesendorp: "COP28: The time for action is now"
    • Connecting EU 2023 seminar: Disinformation and lack of interest are the main reasons for poor voter turnout in European elections
    • Robert Sermek: Why you shouldn't miss voting in the 2024 European elections
  • In this issue:

    • EESC celebrates the success of the Fur Free Europe Citizens' Initiative
    • 2023 EESC winners in the EU organic awards: from Ireland, Germany and Austria
    • Ewa Ewart: "We must join forces to protect our most precious resource: life-giving, fresh, clean water"
    • Maria Nikolopoulou: We call for an overarching strategy to implement the Sustainable Development Goals
  • In this issue:

    • Stop ageism: EESC urges EU and Member States to create new strategy for older persons
    • EESC puts water on the EU agenda with first concrete Blue Deal proposals
    • Georgia – Another front for Russia
    • EU Organic Awards 2023: EESC announces finalists
    • Influencer advertising: EESC proposes EU regulation to draw red line
  • In this issue:

    • Electricity market reform - EESC proposes "E-Facility" to buy and sell power
    • The EU should ban unrepairable products
    • The EESC proposes the creation of a European Food Policy Council
    • Young people: Discriminated against solely based on their age
    • Boško Savković: I am no Che Guevara, I am just one of the citizens asking for a safe country
    • Pietro De Lotto: Faced with water challenges, the EU needs a Blue Deal
  • In this issue:

    • EESC calls for EU legislation on preventing work-related psychosocial risks
    • Thierry Libaert: For a genuine European right to repair
    • Oleksandra Matviichuk: Ukraine will make NATO stronger
    • Jan Dirx: Electricity market reform
  • In this issue:

    • Democracy to guide the programme of the new EESC president
    • Romanian member Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu is the new EESC Vice-President for Communication
    • Poland's Krzysztof Pater is the new EESC Vice-President for Budget
    • Who is who: the EESC's new leadership
  • In this issue:

    • EESC discusses inclusive EU labour markets with Italian minister Marina Calderone
    • Adequate minimum income – a viable road out of poverty
    • EESC proposes actions to counter threats to EU democracy
    • The surprise guest: Diandra Ní Bhuachalla - EESC delegate to COP 28

     

    • It's time for an EU Blue Deal: the EESC launches works on water
    • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at the EESC: "Belarus must not be Putin’s consolation prize"
    • Support for Ukrainian civil society must continue for "as long as it takes"
    • Eugene Afineevsky: "Each one of us is a drop of water, together we are an ocean"