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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.
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The agenda and all information regarding this plenary session will be available 8 days prior to the event. You will be able to follow the debates by web streaming. Web streaming
588th plenary session, with the following guests: Bora Muzhaqi, Minister for Youth and Children of Albania, Biliana Sirakova, EU Youth Coordinator, Elias Dray, EU Youth Forum, Katrīna Leitāne, EESC Youth Groups – Anne Fort, Defence Industrial Policy, EC Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), Tania Latici, European External Action Service; Associate fellow at the Egmont Institute and Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Pietro De Lotto, CCMI – Vasco Cordeiro, CdR, Elisa Ferreira, EU Commissione, Prof.AndrésRodríguez-Pose, Group of High-Level Specialists on the Future of Cohesion Policy – Dubravka Šuica, EC's Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, Marie-Colline Leroy, Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity, Emmanuel Achiri, EU Network Against Racism, Janelle Rizzo EU Citizens Panel on Tackling Hatred in Society – László Andor, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Jarosław Pietras, EU accession, Dr. Tinatin Akhvlediani, EU Foreign Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Štefan Füle, EU Enlargement and EU Policy Center (EPC) Task Force on enlargement.
Ana Gallego Torres, Director General, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST), Ken Godfrey, Executive Director of the European Partnership for Democracy, Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs; Maive Rute, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW); Lanfranco Fanti, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli; Florence Raes, Director of UN Women Brussels, Mary Collins, Secretary General of the European Women's Lobby, Ilaria Todde, Advocacy Director of the Eurocentralasian Lesbian Community and Sif Holst, President of the EESC Equality Group.
586th plenary session, with the following guests: Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights and Karine Lalieux, Belgian Minister of Pensions and Social Integration, in charge of Persons with Disabilities, Combating Poverty and Beliris, Marilyn Neven, Thierry Beaudet, Zornitsa Roussinova, Christelle Savall, Hendrik Nahr, and Brikena Xhomaqi; Enrico Letta; Ajith Sunghay and Sergio Cecchini.
585th plenary session with the following guests: Maroš Šefčovič, EC Executive VP for European Green Deal, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight; Dubravka Šuica, VP of EC and Commissioner for Democracy and Demography and Tatiana Molcean, Under-Secretary General of the UN, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania and Milojko Spajić, Prime Minister of Montenegro.
584th plenary session, with the following guests: Pierre-Yves Dermagne, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Employment, Belgium, David Clarinval, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Middle Classes, the Self-Employed, SMEs, Agriculture, Institutional Reforms & Democratic Renewal, Belgium, Tinne Van der Straeten, Minister of Energy, Belgium.
583rd plenary session: Celebration of the 65th anniversary of the European Economic and Social Committee; The Conclusions of the Spanish Presidency of the EU; Global climate commitments: reflecting on the outcomes of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP28.Web streaming
Europe, water you waiting for? – EESC plenary to issue call for an EU Blue Deal
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582nd plenary session, with the following guests: Evelyn Regner, Vice-President of the European Parliament and Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Equality, Pernille Weiss, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the MEP Water Group. Web streaming
581st plenary session with the following guests: Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budget and Administration, and Margarida Marques, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets, Elise Fleury, ECI organiser, Campaign Lead, Eurogroup for Animals, and Tilly Metz, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the subcommittee on Public Health - Web streaming
580th plenary session LIVE streaming - With the following guests: Dorin Recean, Prime Minister of Moldova, Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Majlinda Bregu, SG of the Regional Cooperation Council, Dubravka Šuica, VP for Democracy and Demography, and Dr Heidrun Mollenkopf, Pres. of the AGE Platform Europe