Rapporteur for EESC opinions on Sustainable Finance, delegate to the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), representing the European Clusters Alliance
Proposals of organised civil society on Improving the framework for sustainable finance - Carlos Trias Pintó
It has been almost a year since the pandemic hit Europe hard...resulting in the worst economic recession since the Second World War. The EU has taken unprecedented steps in supporting its member states in the crisis, releasing billions of Euros to combat the effects of Covid-19. ...
Involvement of Organised Civil Society in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans – What works and what does not? - EESC resolution
Christa Schweng, Laurenţiu Plosceanu, Paul Soete, Cristian Pîrvulescu, Dimitris Dimitriadis
Organisation
European Economic and Social Committee
We are deeply concerned at the humanitarian crisis that thousands of Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani migrants are currently facing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Regrettably, migrants are also experiencing the same inhumane treatment at other external borders of the EU and in countries such as Libya and Turkey, where they have been stranded on their way to the EU.
For weeks now, around 2 500 people, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, families with children and elderly people in need of medical assistance, have been left without basic shelter and are struggling to survive hunger, thirst and the freezing Balkan temperatures after the Lipa refugee camp in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was burned down and closed.
Christa Schweng, presidente do Comité Económico e Social Europeu (CESE), e António Costa, primeiro-ministro de Portugal, por ocasião da sua reunião bilateral
Na sua reunião de 27 de janeiro de 2021, a presidente do CESE, Christa Schweng, e o primeiro-ministro de Portugal, António Costa, declararam que, numa altura em que tudo se tornou urgente – vacinação, retoma económica, transições climática e digital e relançamento do Pilar Europeu dos Direitos Sociais –, é especialmente importante colocar a tónica na qualidade da execução.
