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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

In dit nummer:

• EESC-lid Emilie Prouzet over de crisis in verband met de kosten van levensonderhoud: de prijs van een haperende eengemaakte markt is te hoog
• Oekraïens journalist Tetyana Ogarkova: waarborgen van de Europese defensie, een race tegen de klok
• Special over de Week van het maatschappelijk middenveld:
  • Wat er aan de hand is met Europa: precariteit en onzekerheid als het nieuwe normaal, door Albena Azmanova
  • Europees burgerinitiatief “My Voice, My Choice” verzamelt 1,2 miljoen handtekeningen voor het recht op abortus
  • De winnaars van de 15e prijs voor het maatschappelijk middenveld

In this issue:

• European defence: it's about spending wisely and efficiently by EESC member Marcin Nowacki
• The ReArm Europe plan by Nicolas Gros-Verheyde

• Focus on YEYS:

  - Engaging youth should go beyond just ticking a box by Bruno António

  - Encourage to empower by Kristýna Bulvasová

  - Moldova's youth at YEYS:  Building a generation that sees beyond limitations – interview with Mădălina-Mihaela Antoci

In dit nummer:

• EESC spreekt zich uit over de verslagen van Letta en Draghi, door Matteo Carlo Borsani, Giuseppe Guerini en Stefano Palmieri
• De obsessie met concurrentievermogen, door Karel Lannoo van het CEPS
• Kompas voor het concurrentievermogen biedt geen evenwicht tussen de behoeften van bedrijven en de rechten van werknemers, door Esther Lynch van het EVV
• Future 500: Europese bedrijven klaarstomen voor wereldwijd succes, door Stjepan Orešković van de Atlantic Council
• ECCJ zegt nee tegen omnibuspakket: bedrijfsbelangen mogen EU-beleid niet dicteren, door Andriana Loredan van de ECCJ