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The European Migration Forum – the dialogue platform on migration, asylum and migrant integration - will meet for the tenth time on 27-28 November 2025.
Participation in the Forum meeting is by invitation only - the call for interested organisations is civil society organisations is now closed.
The EU-Serbia Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) will hold its 20th meeting on 28 November 2025 in Serbia. This platform, established within the institutional framework of the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), will enable representatives from both the EU and Serbian civil society to monitor the country's accession negotiations, discuss issues of common interest, and highlight concerns to be addressed on Serbia's path towards the European Union.
Europe for sale? How global marketplaces are changing our society – and what must be done right now
Event type
Conference
Location
Jacques Delors building - Room JDE 62
Brussels
Belgium
The European Consumer Day is an annual event organised since 1999, which gives consumers a forum to discuss topical policy developments. Following-up to the highly acclaimed EESC opinion "Call for fair competition with regard to 3rd country platforms" adopted in September 2025, the topic of this year’s edition of the European Consumer Day will be challenges related to e-commerce from third-country platforms seen from a broader economic and social perspective. The objective will be to discuss potential far-reaching impact of the platforms' expansion on the EU economy and society as such and bring on board actors from all walks of life to advocate for a common cause.
Domestic Advisory Groups of the EU and three Andean countries – Colombia, Peru and Ecuador – will hold their next Joint Meeting and Workshop on 2-3 December 2025 in Lima. The Public Session of the Trade and Sustainable Development Committee meeting – Civil Society Forum – has been scheduled to take place in a hybrid mode on 4 December at 14:00-17:00 Lima time (20:00-23:00 CET).
601st EESC Plenary session, with the following guests: Jeroen Douglas, Director-General at the International Cooperative Alliance, Carlien van Empel, Director of the ILO Office for the EU and the Benelux countries, Amal Chevreau, Head of Unit, Social Economy and Innovation at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (remotely) and Dr Joachim Schwerin, Principal Economist, Responsible Business Conduct Unit within the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the EC; with Piotr Serafin, EU Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Carla Tavares, Member of the EP and Professor Enrico Giovannini, former Italian Minister, currently Scientific Director of ASviS (remotely); with Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, Ivone Kaizeler,Deputy Head of Multilateral Affairs Unit within the Directorate-General for Climate Action of the EC and Samira Ben Ali, EESC Youth Delegate to COP (remotely) - Web streaming