We represent #EUCivilSociety organisations from the 27 EU Member States & raise our concerns on EU policies and legislation in the @EU_EESC #EUCivilDialogueNow
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🗞️Our new #CSOBulletin is out!
In this issue:
📌Comments on #EURegionsWeek, #SOTEU & #OlderPersonsDay
📌Guest articles @EUROCITIES & @consumidores
📌Insider briefing: European Pillar of Social Rights
📌Initiative of the Month: @crocerossa
Read & share👉link.europa.eu/DbnmDb
The European Pillar of #SocialRights set the framework for better living and working conditions.
As the debate on its future unfolds, civil society calls for ambition, financing and participation!
Read the #CSOBulletin Insider Briefing by Lourdes Márquez👉link.europa.eu/T3x6f9
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
With our amazing Lithuanian members, I look forward to this cooperation - civil society is Lithuanian is strong and we are here to work together for resilient communities. Thank you Ambassador.
Thank you, dear @CillianLohan, for an interesting discussion on main priorities for Lithuania's upcoming EU Council Presidency.
Civil society plays a vital role in strengthening 🇪🇺 and its democratic resilience. I look forward to our continued cooperation.
President @CillianLohan opened the exhibition 'Blazing a Trail: Lives & Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women' with @IrlAmbBE Kevin Conmy, in the framework of #Ireland2026eu
✨Celebrating inspiring🇮🇪women whose leadership, innovation, & social impact have shaped communities worldwide!
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
Today with EVP @RoxanaMinzatu, we signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding between @EU_EESC & @EU_Commission.
Our commitment: to jointly implement the first-ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, with civil society and lived experience at its heart.
#EndPoverty #SocialRights
♿Nearly 29% of people with disabilities in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Lower income opportunities & the extra cost of disability drive inequality. We need bold action: full accessibility & full inclusion for all🗣️@MeelisJoost
#DisabilityRights #EndPoverty
Poverty can only be tackled together! 🤝
Hear from Tayyab Munir Choudri from @EAPNEurope on the experience of living in poverty today.
Also,@MyEDF, @COEbanknews, entrepreneurs, & @etuc_ces discuss how to tackle poverty at the source.
👉 link.europa.eu/Vcqtrx
#EESCPlenary
Poverty is contrary to human dignity and dangerous for economy development. Therefore eradicating poverty in Europe by 2050 should become a joint task of civil society, public authorities and business! #EndPoverty🗣️Krzysztof Balon
Read @EU_EESC opinion👉link.europa.eu/Hhd7NT
Our high-level debate on #EradicatingPoverty by 2050 has just begun! 🌍
Join our @EESC_President and members to welcome:
🔹@EU_Commission VP, @RoxanaMinzatu;
🔹@EAPNEurope President, Carlos Susias;
on navigating an end to poverty.
👉 link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
#EESCPlenary
Our #EndPoverty @EU_EESC study 'Breaking the cycle of disadvantage - Reviewing EU policy through the lens of poverty' calls for:
🎯poverty-proofing🇪🇺EU policies
🎯tackling root causes
🎯supporting children and families
🎯turning evidence into action
Read👉link.europa.eu/T7HdNM
Landmark moment! ✍️
We’re signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the @EU_Commission to implement the EU #AntiPovertyStrategy.
Plus: Matthew Geraci presents our study, “Breaking the cycle of disadvantage,” followed by member debate.
👉 link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
#EESCPlenary
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
One year ago, with our @EESC_President, we promised to work to #EndPoverty, keeping #EUCivilSociety at the forefront of this fight.
Today, let's turn this into action with our first-ever High-Level debate on Poverty, with @RoxanaMinzatu & other guests.
🔴link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
📣#EESCplenary high-level debate on #EndPoverty by 2050 is about to start!
🚨Navigating the road ahead
🚨Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding
🚨Ending inter-generational poverty
🚨Jointly preventing & protecting against poverty
🖥️LIVE at 10:00👉link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
Poverty is not an abstract concept to me.
I have lived it. I have overcome it. And I have spent my life working so others might do the same.
Today we hold our first @EU_EESC high-level debate on eradicating poverty by 2050.
Follow live.
➡️link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
#EndPoverty
Democratic resilience starts in communities and needs civil society. Our @EU_EESC opinion calls for permanent structured dialogue/meaningful participation in decision-making/enabling funding framework, including a stronger #AgoraEU
🗣️ @ionutsibian
Read👉link.europa.eu/c8fDwk
📣Our @EU_EESC high-level debate on #EndPoverty by 2050 is about to start!
🚨Navigating the road ahead
🚨Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding
🚨Ending inter-generational poverty
🚨Jointly preventing and protecting against poverty
🖥️Follow LIVE👉link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
The @EU_EESC urges the @EU_Commission to treat shrinking civic space and mounting pressure on democracy as structural barriers to #EndPoverty, and to address them in implementing the strategy #SDG1
🗣️ Rapporteur Anna Schoemakers
Read #EESCplenary opinion 👉link.europa.eu/Hjk7tk
The 🇪🇺EU Emissions Trading System #EUETS review must preserve climate ambition while accelerating a fair transition:
📌make polluters pay
📌invest revenues in people & clean technologies
📌leave no region behind
🗣️Kädi @ristkok
Read our @EU_EESC opinion👉link.europa.eu/tVJr3t
#EUETS: @EUCouncil & @Europarl_EN agree to strengthen the market stability reserve (#MSR) for a competitive & climate neutral Europe.
The rules
⚖️boost market stability & predictability
💸protect industry
🌎advance climate goals
Read more👇
link.europa.eu/wBTGqf
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
🌍This afternoon at the #EESCPlenary our opinion on the revision of the EU Emissions Trading System will be debated and put to a vote.
🗳️A timely and important discussion on a topic high on Europe’s agenda! Watch the debate live:
👉link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
#EUETS #CarbonPricing
European #TechSovereignty is not just about where technology is developed, but who has access, who has control and who benefits. True sovereignty must empower people, not just industries.
🗣️ @Juliane_IDA
📺Follow LIVE #EESCplenary debate👉 link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
Curious about #EUtech future?
Tune in as we explore how AI is changing the digital landscape, together with:
🚀 @HennaVirkkunen, Executive VP of the @EU_Commission;
🚀 @CeBonefeldDahl, Director General of @DIGITALEUROPE.
👉 link.europa.eu/3DYXbv
#EESCPlenary #TechSovereignty
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
We want you to know our #EESCPlenary is live!
We are ready to put #EUCivilSociety, workers & employers at the heart of EU's future.
On the agenda:
💬 tech sovereignty, with @EU_Commission's EVP @HennaVirkkunen;
🗳️EU competitiveness, disability rights.
🔴link.europa.eu/njQqj4
🧒Breaking the cycle of #EndChildPoverty requires early action, adequate funding and meaningful civil society involvement to ensure every child can access essential services, especially those most in need.
🗣️Rapporteur @joo_kinga
Read #EESCplenary opinion👉link.europa.eu/CX6Nqg
President @CillianLohan welcomed Marina Nord @goteborgsuni, who presented the V-Dem Institute’s 2026 #Democracy Report
Its findings fuel a vital debate on protecting democratic institutions/civic space/fundamental values, all solidly enshrined in our Group's political priorities.
🎉50 years of OCU, championing consumer rights. Strong civil dialogue/social justice/a fair green transition & an active role for civil society are🔑to building a more democratic/sustainable🇪🇺EU.
Read Enrique García López @consumidores in our #CSObulletin👉link.europa.eu/cWtCNc
Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC retweeted
💧 Water is essential to human activities, industry, agriculture and energy production. How can society adapt to increasing water challenges?
CCMI President, Alain Coheur discusses water efficiency, resilience and Europe’s water future: shorturl.at/4ru1B
