European Economic
and Social Committee
European Economic
and Social Committee
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe.
Find out more about its role and structure at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/about
The EESC issues between 160 and 190 opinions, evaluation and information reports a year.
It also organises several annual initiatives and events with a focus on civil society and citizens’ participation such as the Civil Society Prize, the Civil Society Days, the Your Europe, Your Say youth plenary and the ECI Day.
Find the latest EESC opinions and publications at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/opinions-information-reports/opinions and http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/publications respectively.
The EESC is active in a wide range of areas, from social affairs to economy, energy and sustainability.
Learn more about our policy areas and policy highlights at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/policies
The EESC holds nine plenary sessions per year. It also organises many conferences, public hearings and high-level debates related to its work.
Find out more about our upcoming events at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-events/upcoming-events
Here you can find news and information about the EESC'swork, including its social media accounts, the EESC Info newsletter, photo galleries and videos.
Read the latest EESC news http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news and press releases http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/press-releases
The EESC brings together representatives from all areas of organised civil society, who give their independent advice on EU policies and legislation. The EESC's326 Members are organised into three groups: Employers, Workers and Various Interests.
Find out more about our Members and groups at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/members-groups
The EESC has six sections, specialising in concrete topics of relevance to the citizens of the European Union, ranging from social to economic affairs, energy, environment, external relations or the internal market.
Find out more at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/sections-other-bodies
Evropski ekonomsko-socialni odbor (EESO) gosti izjemno zanimivo fotografsko razstavo z naslovom Powerful Encounters: Picturing an end to energy poverty (Srečanja, ki pustijo močan vtis: odprava energetske revščine v slikah), ki prikazuje delo fotografinje Miriam Strong. Razstava, pripravljena v sodelovanju z mrežo Friends of the Earth Europe, izpostavlja aktivizem, kolektivizem in opolnomočenje skupnosti po vsej Evropi, ki se soočajo z energijsko revščino. Organizirana je bila na pobudo skupine organizacij civilne družbe v EESO in bo od 4. do 16. decembra na ogled v stavbi JDE EESO v Bruslju, Rue Belliard 99–101.
Podpredsednik EESO, pristojen za komuniciranje, Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu in predsednik skupine organizacij civilne družbe EESO Séamus Boland sta na otvoritvi poudarila prizadevanja EESO za izkoreninjenje revščine, spodbujanje cenovno dostopne energije in sistemskih sprememb ter uresničevanje ciljev trajnostnega razvoja.
G. Boland se je v svojem govoru dotaknil naraščajočih življenjskih stroškov in vse višje stopnje revščine v Evropi ter poudaril potrebo po odločnem političnem odzivu nove Evropske komisije in Evropskega parlamenta. „Prva strategija EU za boj proti revščini in dogovor o čisti industriji, ki ju je predsednica Komisije Ursula von der Leyen napovedala v političnih usmeritvah za novo Evropsko komisijo, morata vsebovati trajnostne rešitve za razmere na terenu,“ je dejal g. Boland.
Aktivistka Laia Segura, ki se zavzema za energetsko pravičnost, in Yvonne Lemmen, ki je pri mreži Friends of the Earth pristojna za komuniciranje, sta poudarili, da ta fotografski projekt prikazuje, kako se ljudje spopadajo z energijsko revščino in se borijo za svojo pravico do dostojnih domov, odpornih na podnebne spremembe, s cenovno dostopno in čisto energijo. Za več informacij kliknite tukaj.