Strong relations between Civil Society in the EU🇪🇺 and the 🇬🇧UK must be maintained.

🔊In particular the voice of young people must be empowered and amplified! #Youth #Youth Test #EESCplenary

🗣️Rapporteur Cillian Lohan
Read our European Economic and Social Committee opinion👉🏽europa.eu/!bRHRcQ

We explore ways of enhancing 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #youth engagement, including:
👉 a proposal for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme;
👉 recommendations to address the particular issues and concerns of vulnerable groups of young people.

Our opinion: europa.eu/!bRHRcQ

#YouthTest EESC External Relations

Looking forward to presenting for vote my Opinion on EU UK Youth relations this afternoon.
Hoping for a strong vote in favour so we can begin the next phase of our collaborative work.

Delighted to see this. At EU Delegation sessions which I chaired in London last October this is what UK young people wanted to see Young Scot Hilary Kidd Kirsten Urquhart -very much in tune with Cillian Lohan EESC External Relations opinion+discussions w Oliver Röpke in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SAFE MOU Nov23🙌

Another European Economic and Social Committee own initiative Opinion (for which I am proud to be rapporteur) making a real difference - of course due to strong collaboration and team efforts.

🇪🇺 EU #CircularEconomy actors turn their vision into actions in Brussels at the WCEF2024

The European Economic and Social Committee' EU circular economy stakeholder platform fulfills its role as the 'network of networks' & many other CE platforms are being developed internationally inspired by ours

Read👉 bit.ly/3W3cFWL

🧩necessary part of the circular’s economy puzzle ? #Funds !

Our member & founder of the EU circular economy stakeholder platform Cillian Lohan talks on the financial aspects of the transition to the #circulareconomy in the editorial of the Renewable Matter | Materia Rinnovabile magazine

Read 👇
renewablematter.eu/articoli/artic…

So encouraging to see how an European Economic and Social Committee Opinion, which I was proud to rapporteur, in 2016 was the origin of this EU circular economy stakeholder platform and as part of #WCEF2024 can be celebrated as a success. Plenty more work to do…..

📣👏💪After impressive work done by rapporteur Cillian Lohan & advisor Maurizio Cuttin UKYA 🇬🇧🇺🇦, European Economic and Social Committee opinion on EU-UK Youth Engagement is under the spotlight!

🎙️🗞️ Media coverage in POLITICO Financial Times The Independent & The New European - Think Without Borders

🔛 europa.eu/!bRHRcQ

Strong message from Arnaud Schwartz 🌏 of the Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC
We need this Nature Restoration Law urgently because in its absence it will be Business As Usual, and that’s not delivering for anyone.

Its vital that the NRL is adopted before the summer to ensure the protection of our natural world & the rights of citizens European Economic and Social Committee
We call on Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 Ursula von der Leyen Virginijus Sinkevičius to take decisive action to salvage this key pillar of the European Green Deal #RestoreNature

📣🔛Distinguished 🇪🇺 and 🇬🇧 speakers highlight the importance of youth involvement and express wide support to the European Economic and Social Committee opinion on EU-UK Youth Engagement, including mobility, education, touring artists, farmers, entrepreneurs and other issues.

📺europa.eu/!FNY7qK

EESC External Relations davidmcallister Angelina Eichhorst 🇪🇺 Cillian Lohan Maurizio Cuttin UKYA 🇬🇧🇺🇦 ionut sibian EU Delegation UK UK Mission to the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 What UK Thinks: EU Dragica Martinovic Dimitris.N.Dimitriadis🇬🇷 🇪🇺 Follow us EESC External Relations today if you are interested how to reconnect EU and UK youth 📺We are starting soon europa.eu/!FNY7qK

We can't retreat on the Nature Restoration Law. The natural systems we depend upon are in peril. To retreat now would be disastrous for nature and disastrous for public confidence in our European Institutions.

EU Environment #NatureRestoration

The humanitarian situation in #Gaza demands prompt action to prevent an even bigger human crisis.

Civilians are in dire need of food, water, fuel, electricity & medical care.

Ensuring urgent humanitarian aid along an immediate & sustainable ceasefire is crucial.

#EESCPlenary

The blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza worsens an already worrying situation.

Follow our #EESCPlenary debate with:
🔹 Ajith Sunghay, Head of UN Human Rights Palestine;
🔹 Sergio Cecchini, MSF International’s Humanitarian Representative to NATO & the EU.

Tune in→ europa.eu/!qQ64Yc

Given the dire poverty & social exclusion levels in the EU, one can only conclude that growth should be measured beyond GPD levels. EU social policies must bring more social justice, equality & fairness to the entire EU population.
Séamus Boland #EESCPlenary #SocialRights #NoPoverty

Say what???
irishtimes.com/business/2024/…

World Wildlife Day #WWD2024

Fighting #Wildlife trafficking requires a focus on training/inter-agency co-operation/funding. Protecting wildlife is fundamental to protecting the ecosystems on which we depend for everything!🗣️Cillian Lohan

European Economic and Social Committee opinion👉europa.eu/!3PbVNg

🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Maurizio Cuttin UKYA 🇬🇧🇺🇦, advisor to Cillian Lohan on the European Economic and Social Committee opinion on EU-UK Youth Engagement