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In this issue:

• Justice as a human right, by Oleksandra Matviichuk
• Ukraine’s stolen children, by Alina Dmytrenko
• Ukraine’s EU path, by Nadija Afanasieva
• Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s energy sector, by Nataliia Fiebrig

Also:

• The most beautiful (and cruellest) winter, by Tetyana Ogarkova
• The EESC’s recommendations on the 2026 European Semester, by Luca Jahier

In this issue

• Apply AI strategy, by Rudolf Kolbe
• Tackling TikTokcracy, by the Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI)
• TikTok: With scale comes responsibility
• Who you gonna call? Fact-checkers, by EDMO

Also:

• The 2025 Sakharov Prize laureates and finalists
• EESC backs My Voice, My Choice initiative, by José Antonio Moreno Diaz

In this issue:

• Stoyan Tchoukanov and Samira Ben Ali – EESC delegation at COP30

   

  Focus on Affordable Housing:

• Decisive political action can solve the housing crisis –John Comer and Thomas Kattnig, EESC
• Europe is running out of affordable homes – Diana Yordanova, Housing Europe
• Excessive rents are pushing people into poverty – Barbara Steenbergen, International Union of Tenants
• A roof over every student's head – Duarte Lopes, European Students' Union

In this issue:

• New EESC President Seamus Boland: Let’s put civil society at the heart of Europe
• New Vice-Presidents Alena Mastantuono and Marija Hanževački on the EESC’s priorities for the new term of office

Focus on poverty:

• MEP Maria Walsh on period poverty
• Eradicating poverty: promise or plan? – by the EAPN
• Ending child poverty is a human rights imperative – by Eurochild

In this issue:

• To be a 'first' ─ as a woman in politics, by German author Heike Specht
• Europe's start-ups and scale-ups, by EESC member Mira-Maria Danisman
• Focus on inclusion:
  • Be the person you are – Danish TV host Diana Magling
  • One ball, a thousand dreams – The Homeless World Cup Foundation
  • 200 years of Braille – European Blind Union
  • It's a tough time for empathy but we are not giving up ─ Romanian non-profit Ateliere Fără Frontiere

In this issue:

• The EESC signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Belarusian democratic forces
• Releasing political prisoners in Belarus is not a concession but a lifeline, by Hanna Liubakova, Belarusian journalist in exile
• Democratic Europe at a crossroads: between resilience, hybrid warfare and algorithmic radicalisation, by the EESC’s Cristian Pîrvulescu
• Towards the eradication of poverty, by EESC member Krzysztof Balon

In this issue:

• Activist Andrey Gnyot on the climate of repression in Belarus

• UNHCR's Jean Nicolas Beuze on the need to strategically address forced displacement in the next MFF

  Focus on water:

• Facing the Unknown – a documentary on the global water crisis produced by EESC member Paul Rübig
• EU's outermost regions demand more than a symbolic action by Sabrina Cajoly    
• EurEau: the new EU Water Strategy falls short of restricting harmful PFAS uses

Šajā izdevumā:

• EESK locekle Emilie Prouzet par dzīves dārdzības krīzi: sadrumstalota vienotā tirgus cena ir pārāk augsta
• Ukrainas žurnāliste Tetyana Ogarkova: aizsardzības Eiropa, skrējiens ar mērķi apsteigt laiku
• Pilsoniskās sabiedrības nedēļas speciālizlaidums
  • Eiropas diagnoze: nestabilitāte un nedrošība kā jaunā norma. Albena Azmanova
  • EPI “Mana balss, mana izvēle”: vairāk nekā 1,2 miljoni iestājas par tiesībām uz abortu
  • 15. balva pilsoniskajai sabiedrībai: uzvarētāji

Šajā izdevumā:

• Eiropas aizsardzība: viedi un efektīvi tēriņi. EESK loceklis Marcin Nowacki
• Plāns ReArm Europe. Nicolas Gros-Verheyde

• Uzmanības centrā – “Jūsu Eiropa, jūsu lēmumi”:

  - Jauniešu iesaiste nedrīkst būt tikai formalitāte. Bruno António

  - Pamudinājums, kas dod spēku. Kristýna Bulvasová

  - Moldovas jaunieši pasākumā “Jūsu Eiropa, jūsu lēmumi”: jaunā paaudze, kas spēj skatīties pāri ierobežojumiem – intervija ar Mădălina-Mihaela Antoci

Šajā izdevumā:

• EESK nostāja pret Draghi un Letta ziņojumiem; Matteo Carlo Borsani, Giuseppe Guerini un Stefano Palmieri
• Apsēstība ar konkurētspēju; Karel Lannoo (CEPS)
• Konkurētspējas kompass nenodrošina līdzsvaru starp uzņēmumu vajadzībām un darba ņēmēju tiesībām; saruna ar Esther Lynch (ETUC)
• Future 500: mērogot Eiropas uzņēmumus globāliem panākumiem; Stjepan Orešković, Atlantijas padome
• ECCJ saka “nē” Omnibus paketei: korporatīvajām interesēm nevajadzētu virzīt ES politiku; Andriana Loredan, ECCJ