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  • EESC info February 2025

    In this issue:

    • The EESC’s take on the Draghi and Letta reports, by Matteo Carlo Borsani, Giuseppe Guerini and Stefano Palmieri
    • The competitiveness obsession, by Karel Lannoo, CEPS
    • The Competitiveness Compass fails to balance the needs of businesses with the rights of workers, by Esther Lynch, ETUC
    • Future 500: scaling European businesses for global success, by Stjepan Orešković, Atlantic Council
    • ECCJ says no to Omnibus: corporate interests should not drive EU policy, by Andriana Loredan, ECCJ
  • EESC Info January 2025

    In this issue:

    • Ensuring support for social economy enterprises in line with State aid rules by Guiseppe Guerini
    • EESC screening of the Belarus film "Under the Grey Sky" -  interview with director Mara Tamkovich
    • New pact on migration and asylum may put the European project to the test by Camille le Coz, MPI Europe
    • Nameless graves at Europe's outer borders by Barbara Matejčić

    • Syrian refugees:

      - EU approach to Syrian returns – a turning point for its migration policy by Alberto-Horst Neidhardt, EPC

      - EU countries must not force Syrian refugees to return amid ongoing instability by Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR