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Good exchanges at #EnergyClimateSummit this week. Civil Society is essential to any transition that is going to work.
We need to listen to civil society organisations and businesses, when it comes to challenges of implementing #CircularEconomy measures!
Professional transition brokers can help unlock potential. Part of benefits must accrue to local communities.
@CillianLohan #EnergyClimateSummit
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📡Live now - watch here👇
link.europa.eu/WM4V9T
👋Commissioner @WBHoekstra hosts the Youth Policy Dialogue on #COP31 on 1 October, 9:00-10:30 CEST.
🌍Join the live webstream and hear young voices shaping the EU climate agenda ahead of #COP31Türkiye
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Rapporteur of @EU_EESC opinion on #CircularEconomyAct Cillian Lohan and the advisor Ladeja Godina Košir speaking at
Circular.ie: Circularity Communicated Conference 2026
Check the quotes and link below👇
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Any ambitious transition requires meaningful public participation - a focus on decentralisation being a core principle of the #CircularEconomy
🗨️ Our President @CillianLohan today at the Circularity Communicated Conference 2026 at @NGIreland, organised as part of #Ireland2026EU
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🌍11 years ago today, the world adopted #Agenda2030 and the #SDGs. As 2030 nears, it’s time to look beyond.
📝We are starting work on a “By and Beyond 2030” opinion, asking what comes next and how we can keep #SustainableDevelopment at the heart of Europe’s future.
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🗞️ Our new #CSOBulletin is out!
📌 Comments: forest fires, child safety online & Ceuta
📌 Guests: Civic Alliance – Latvia & ECFI
📌 Insider briefing: EU public procurement
📌 Initiative of the Month: For a stronger public health workforce
Read & share 👉 link.europa.eu/wfpGPQ
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📸Today, President @CillianLohan welcomed Piotr Sadowski, Co-Chair of @EESC_CivSocRel, to our Group meeting.
Mr Sadowski highlighted Liaison Group's:
• role in structured dialogue with civil society
• cooperation with 49 EU networks
• contributions to 30 EESC opinions in 2025
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Sustained strategic cooperation between the EESC and the @lecese is essential. Together, our institutions serve as beacons of democracy. Where an economic and social council is strong, civil society has a voice—and democracy is stronger
@CillianLohan to @clairethoury #EESCPlenary
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🧑🌾Last week, @joehealyfarmer opened the debate on socially sustainable future CAP at an event with @SafeHabitus_eu
Key messages
🔹increase & inflation-proof CAP funding
🔸keep the two-pillar structure
🔸strengthen farmers’ position in the food chain
🔹improve price transparency
My statement on #SOTEU
#SOTEU: Civil society calls for an ambitious sustainable EU agenda
🎯Address the causes of climate change
🎯Adopt an EU agenda that fully integrates the #SDGs
🎯Implement the #EUGreenDeal at a sustainable pace
🎯Renew commitment to civil society as a cornerstone of EU democracy
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#SOTEU: Civil society calls for an ambitious sustainable EU agenda
🎯Address the causes of climate change
🎯Adopt an EU agenda that fully integrates the #SDGs
🎯Implement the #EUGreenDeal at a sustainable pace
🎯Renew commitment to civil society as a cornerstone of EU democracy
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Our Union will be stronger and more united when civil society is empowered. As the Civil Society Organisations’ Group in the EESC, we are ready to facilitate this.
Read the full statement by President @CillianLohan📰 link.europa.eu/3NyhKj
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President @CillianLohan is in Vilnius today ahead of the Lithuanian EU Presidency in 2027. Productive meetings on the presidency priorities and civil society concerns with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Social Affairs, and with the 🇱🇹 National NGO Coalition.
Ačiū, Lietuva!
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For the 2025–2028 term, we are focusing our efforts on:
✅ Empowering #ResilientCommunities
✅ Defend democracy
✅ Foster peace + a strong #CivilSociety
✅ Drive the sustainability agenda #SDGs
✅ Ensure an EU budget that reflects Europe's ambitions
More👉link.europa.eu/c3QBjG
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Who brings citizens' voices to the EU?
Our @CSOGroupEESC ensures that their voices are heard in EU policymaking.
Key priorities:
✅ resilient communities;
✅ democracy & participation;
✅ peace & resilience;
✅ sustainability;
✅ support for civil society.
#EUCivilSociety
Honoured to have been hosted by @UCC for this important meeting of our group. We want to bring communities to closer to the EU.
We want to connect local communities and their civil society organisations with the EU
Read the @SouthernStarIRL report about our conference on sustainable development and civic engagement at @UCC, with our president @CillianLohan,@COSullivanTD & others 👇southernstar.ie/news/high-le…
Pleased to share this article on the continuing evolution of Circular Economy in the EU
The circular economy is no longer a “nice-to-have” environmental policy but an industrial, economic and strategic imperative. This is why the @EU_EESC calls for a genuine #CircularEconomyAct that...
Read the full interview with @CillianLohan by @Euractiv👇euractiv.com/interview/europ…
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Good to see circularity on this agenda. It must become a horizontal principle.
The circular economy is part of the sustainability agenda and contributes to building an economically realistic and socially fair Europe.
Read @EU_EESC on #CircularEconomyAct: link.europa.eu/HgrHwX
Take a look at the Agenda of the upcoming Informal Meeting of EU Ministers responsible for Environment and Climate 🔗 : irish-presidency.consilium.e…
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Interesting opportunity for VET graduates 👇🏼
🇪🇺 For the first time, graduates of Vocational Education and Training (VET) will be eligible to apply for the European Commission’s Blue Book Traineeship Programme.
Up to 100 places will be reserved for VET graduates from the March 2027 session.
📅 Applications open: 22 July 2026
💶 5-month paid traineeship
Vocational and higher education deserve equal recognition. Europe needs both 👇
ec.europa.eu/commission/pres…
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🔄Poverty can persist across generations. Are EU policies equipped to #EndPoverty?
As @EU_Commission publishes its first Anti-Poverty Strategy, read @EU_EESC study👉link.europa.eu/T7HdNM
Stay tuned for🆕#EESCplenary opinions on intergenerational poverty & the EU Child Guarantee
