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📢In the new #EESCInfo:
📌#ConnectingEU highlights
📌Can Europe avoid a return to its ugly past? - M. Bonikowska @CIR_CSM
📌Trust first: The best defence against disinformation - DW Akademie
📌Better regulation for a changing Europe @katrinazarina
📎link.europa.eu/ypxj38
📺 Stay tuned! #EUCO #energy #electrification
👉 @EU_EESC will adopt the opinion on Future-proofing #electricity bills in the EU 🇪🇺 at next week's plenary session! @EESC_TEN
Click here and find out more ➡️ link.europa.eu/yJPqMq
💡 NOW ONLINE - European Council conclusions on competitiveness, next MFF, enlargement and reforms ↓ #EUCO
link.europa.eu/HbQf4N
Europe must defend its interests without retreating into isolation. How can it balance economic security, openness and rules-based trade?
Read the article: rapporteur.com/opinion/europ…
#EUTrade #EconomicSecurity
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📢EESC NAT section member Nicoletta Merlo (@NMerlo87) presenting today at the #WorldFoodForum in Rome🇮🇹
🔸the goals and achievements of the EESC Youth Group
🔸the key messages of the opinion on the Generational renewal strategy
#WFF
🌾Can Europe deliver a fairer #CAP with fewer resources?
As negotiations on the next EU budget continue, the @EU_EESC calls for a strong, standalone and adequately funded CAP post-2027
🔎Discover our recommendations in the opinion by @joehealyfarmer 👉 link.europa.eu/BPvN7Y
🥘👨🌾No farmers, no food
@EU_EESC calls for:
-stronger #CAP budget (0.5% of EU GDP)
-support for young & female farmers
-resilient food supply chains
-science-based #sustainable farming, no cutting rural investment
👇Rapporteur @joehealyfarmer reports today from the #EESCplenary
⚖️How can empowering women farmers build more resilient agrifood systems?
At #CFS54, @EU_EESC member M. Nikolopoulou will discuss turning commitments into action at a side event
🗓️ 21/10
⏲️08:30 CET, Rome + online
🔗register & follow online or in-situ: bit.ly/4hSFtKz
🆕 EU’s new #energy labelling must include post-purchase information 🇪🇺
#EnergyLabel must cover the entire product lifecycle – from purchase to repair and resale – and use digital tools to improve transparency and accessibility
#EPREL
Find out more 👉 link.europa.eu/qCckPN
🌍A bigger EU must also be a greener EU!
🇪🇺EU enlargement and climate ambition must go hand in hand.
🌱 The @EU_EESC calls for early climate action, clean energy investment and a strong civil society voice in candidate countries.
👉 Read more: link.europa.eu/bjnbgjdj
🌍 Climate. Food. Oceans. Farming. One sustainable future!
Today at @EU_EESC NAT civil society brings real-world solutions into EU policymaking
🌡️ Climate governance
🌱 #EUOrganicAwards winners
🌊 EU ETS & OceanEye
🍽️ #RightToFood
📺 Watch live: link.europa.eu/wbP87j
🏠 Housing. 💼 Jobs. 🎓 Education. 🤝 Solidarity.
The EESC believes intergenerational fairness must become a guiding principle of EU policymaking, with concrete measures to support both younger and older generations.
Read more: link.europa.eu/RXJNj3
#EESCPlenary
🆕 #HousingCrisis – Modern methods of construction can be the driver of #AffordableHousing 🇪🇺
They can lower housing costs 🏠 and boost supply ▶️ but only with a convergence of innovation, quality, workers’ rights and public interest
👉 Read the story: link.europa.eu/GxxMD6
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Meet the speakers of our 1st panel:
👉Eero AILIO, @Energy4Europe
👉Filip VAN DE VELDE, City of Ghent
👉Pauline DULONGCOURTY, @EPSUnions
👉Davide SABBADIN, @Green_Europe
👉@HannaZdanowska, Mayor of Łódź & @EU_CoR Member.
Full programme and Registration: link.europa.eu/7gCPWM
Building trust in a fractured world #EPDD
In an era of growing uncertainty, promoting health, solidarity and citizen engagement can help build more resilient, peaceful and inclusive societies
Read more: link.europa.eu/trWxMX
@EU_EESC
Responsibility for tackling #Cyberbullying must lie primarily with digital platforms, not young people.
The EESC calls for
✅Stronger accountability
✅Simple reporting tools
✅Meaningful youth involvement
...to make online spaces safer.
Read more👇
link.europa.eu/8VtVtj
Europe’s investment gaps are growing, and closing them will require stronger public finance.
The @EU_EESC looks at how public investment can help 🇪🇺 strengthen its economy, support cohesion & deliver on its priorities.
Read the story 👉link.europa.eu/GWVnrn
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🔴LIVE NOW
Follow our debate on the topic "From recommendations to results: Is administrative capacity becoming the missing link in the #EUSemester?"
🎥Watch live: link.europa.eu/HpYcPH
❓Join the discussion and ask your questions on Sli.do using #EUSemester.
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The European Public Diplomacy Days are live!
Today we will discuss:
🔹 the role of #EUCivilSociety in health diplomacy;
🔹 how to tackle health disinformation;
🔹 how reducing poverty can improve health outcomes worldwide.
Tune in live: link.europa.eu/PbbJty
Follow LIVE tomorrow #Youth Policy Dialogue on #COP31
👥With @NMerlo87 and @WBHoekstra
📺 Watch: link.europa.eu/Bkpnfx
How should young people shape the EU's position at #COP31? 🌍
Join tomorrow's dialogue with @WBHoekstra and youth representatives from across Europe to discuss the future of EU climate action.
📺 Watch live: link.europa.eu/Bkpnfx
@EU_ENV @Youth_Forum @ClimateEurope
Fighting #terrorism must not mean sacrificing democracy.
The EESC calls for an EU approach that combines:
✅Effective security
✅Prevention
✅Fundamental rights
✅Systematic involvement of #CivilSociety
Read more 👇
link.europa.eu/hDwP9M
#EESCPlenary
📰Europe’s AI expansion risks deepening foreign dependence, EESC warns
🤖#Cloud & #AI development Act relies on unsecured funding, leaves open whether EU can generate enough electricity to power #DataCenters & gives affected communities too little say
🔎link.europa.eu/ywb43b


























