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  • EESC Info June 2025

    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
  • EESC Info April 2025

    V tomto vydaní:

    • Členka EHSV Emilie Prouzet o kríze spôsobenej nárastom životných nákladov: cena za nefunkčný jednotný trh je príliš vysoká
    • Ukrajinská novinárka Teťana Ogarkova: Obranyschopná Európa, preteky s časom
    • Osobitný dôraz na Týždeň občianskej spoločnosti 2025:
      • Diagnostikovanie Európy: nestálosť a neistota ako nový normálny stav, Albena Azmanova
      • EIO My Voice, My Choice: Viac ako 1,2 milióna osôb sa zasadzuje za práva na umelé prerušenie tehotenstva
      • 15. ročník Ceny pre občiansku spoločnosť: stretnutie s víťazmi