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It also organises several annual initiatives and events with a focus on civil society and citizens’ participation such as the Civil Society Prize, the Civil Society Days, the Your Europe, Your Say youth plenary and the ECI Day.
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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.
The EESC has six sections, specialising in concrete topics of relevance to the citizens of the European Union, ranging from social to economic affairs, energy, environment, external relations or the internal market.
On Monday, 18 March 2024, the NAT Section is organizing a public expert event entitled "How to best achieve Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050" to feed into the opinion on the Communication on Securing our future - Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 building a sustainable, just and prosperous society.
The 6th meeting of the EU and the Canada Domestic Advisory Groups (DAGs), "DAG-to-DAG meeting", established under the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), will take place on 18-19 March 2024. The Members will take stock of the work of their respective DAGs since the 2023 joint meeting, and discuss business and human rights, the new TSD approach and its implementation and enabling positive outcomes for climate and nature through CETA.
The meeting will be completed on 19 March with a workshop discussing TSD evolution and ways of leveraging CETA for responsible, sustainable and just resource development.
A joint statement, prepared by both sides, will be discussed and adopted.
The European Commission published its communication on “No place for hate: a Europe united against hatred” in December 2023 as a call for action to all Europeans to stand up against hatred and speak up for tolerance and respect. This comes in the wake of an alarming increase in hate speech and hate crime with evidence showing that Jewish and Muslim communities are particularly affected. This hearing will invite relevant actors to discuss the measures in the communication and how civil society can contribute to address this surge in hatred.
The Civil Society Organisations' Group will hold a thematic debate on the Nature Restoration Law during its meeting on 20 March 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00. You can follow the debate live via the streaming on this event page.
The agenda and all information regarding this plenary session will be available 8 days prior to the event. You will be able to follow the debates by web streaming. Web streaming
The conference is open to the public. It will be in hybrid form. In order to take part either in person or remotely, please register here until 21 March 2024, 12.00 CET.
The conference is open to the public. You can either join the conference in person or from remote. Prior registration for both is required. Registration will open shortly.
This is the 2nd campaign on fighting disinformation that the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is organising as part of its overall project on disinformation to be implemented with the help of civil society.