EESC Info

In this issue:

• European defence: it's about spending wisely and efficiently by EESC member Marcin Nowacki
• The ReArm Europe plan by Nicolas Gros-Verheyde

• Focus on YEYS:

  - Engaging youth should go beyond just ticking a box by Bruno António

  - Encourage to empower by Kristýna Bulvasová

  - Moldova's youth at YEYS:  Building a generation that sees beyond limitations – interview with Mădălina-Mihaela Antoci

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

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

In this issue:

• Andrey Gnyot: Enemy of the state – persecution of journalists in Belarus
• EESC delegation at COPs 16 and 29: We are pulling the rug from under our feet
• Adélaïde Charlier: Betrayed by the billions: COP29's failure to deliver for climate justice
• Luz Haro Guanga: Fight for a healthy planet is a question of life or death
• Mariya Mincheva: The cost of non-Schengen - high for Bulgaria and Romania, but also for EU single market
   

In this issue:

• Sandra Parthie: AI 'made in Europe' – possible but needs work
• Alexandra Borchardt: Trusted journalism in the age of generative AI
• Lukaš Diko: Murdering journalists will not silence the truth
• Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism – Encouraging journalistic excellence

In this issue:

• No longer invisible: how the Seoul and London Olympics made history by Pietro Barbieri
• What I see at the Olympics by Pyrros Dimas
• The Revived – Ukraine's first ever digital Olympic team
• Children with disabilities: we can do everything, we just might do some things a little differently
• 24 projects shortlisted for 2024 EU Organic Awards

In this issue: 

• Clamping down on exploitation of trainees by Nicoletta Merlo 
• Spotlight on youth in the EU: the Committee's pioneering Youth Test initiative is gaining momentum 
• How the Rassemblement national capitalises on the youth vote in France by Christophe Préault, Touteleurope.eu
• How to stay in touch with Generation TikTok? by Rieke Smit, Social News Daily/ #UseTheNews 
   

• Making European elections a role-model for accessible voting: this time it is too late
• Enlargement: the EU’s most powerful and successful policy tool, by Pat Cox
• North Macedonia’s EU accession: challenges, promises and the way forward
• Jaroslaw Pietras: The EU’s great enlargement – 20 years on

• Danuta Hübner: The vote matters
• Cast your ballots in June 2024: the EESC is calling on Europeans to vote for a united and democratic Europe
• Régis Genté: Disinformation will be successful if its target is weak
• Housing crisis – the EESC calls on the EU to act

• Civil Society Week: European civil society sets agenda for next EU leaders
• Ireland's Third Age Foundation wins EESC Civil Society Prize for mental health
• Christian Moos: Defence of Democracy package – Commission should withdraw the directive
• Bruno Kaufmann: Why the European Citizens' Initiative is much more decisive than we may think