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  • 596th Plenary session — Tu 29 - We 30 Apr 2025

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    596th plenary session, with the followinfg debates: Mid-term review of cohesion policy, with Raffaele Fitto, European Commission Executive-Vice-President for Cohesion and Reforms, at 15:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2025; EU foreign policy in a new geopolitical reality, at 16:00 on Tuesday 29 April 2025; Democracy and digitalisation , at 17:15 on Tuesday 29 April 2025; The road to the next multiannual financial framework, at 9:30 on Wednesday 30 April 2025. –  Web streaming

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  • 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
  • EESC info March 2025

    V tomto vydaní:

    • Európska obrana: kľúčom je rozumné a efektívne vynakladanie prostriedkov, autor: člen EHSV Marcin Nowacki
    • Plán ReArm Europe, autor: Nicolas Gros-Verheyde

    • Zamerané na YEYS:

      – Zapojenie mládeže by malo predstavovať viac než len odškrtnutie úlohy v zozname, autor Bruno António

      – Povzbudiť k emancipácii, autorka Kristýna Bulvasová

      – Moldavská mládež na podujatí Vaša európa, váš názor: formuje sa generácia, ktorú nezastavia obmedzenia, rozhovor s Mădălinou-Mihaelou Antociovou