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In #EESCInfo we give the floor to many voices on #poverty
📌@corina_murafa: #EnergyPoverty leaves people excluded
📌MEP João Oliveira: No strategy can succeed without adequate💶
📌@AGE_PlatformEU: Old age poverty
📌Food banks: Less waste, less to share

📰https://t.co/ywiHrYvoOq

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Here's EESC's take on the proposed #DigitalFairnessAct, presented today by @DigitalEU ↘️

#DFA should
🔖give businesses one clear rulebook so that they can scale
🤺protect consumers from manipulation
🔎give clearer rules for influencers & subscriptions

https://t.co/5mTtZowHnM

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🇪🇺 Better jobs can mean a stronger, more competitive Europe.

🧰At the Socio-Economic Value of Job Quality conference, the EESC and @EU_Social explored how quality jobs can boost productivity and resilience.

Read more 👇
https://t.co/n07e522U3W

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🆕 #HousingCrisis – The EU 🇪🇺 now needs effective measures and practical solutions to make #housing affordable 🏠

@EESC_TEN @EU_EESC

Read the story 👉 https://t.co/PRtEtp9cGg

[Séamus Boland @EESC_President]

Europe’s housing crisis has no single solution.

The EU, Member States and civil society must work together to increase supply, unlock investment and protect those most at risk.

Honoured to open today’s Joint @EU_EESC-@Eurofound conference on Housing.

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🔴 Starting shortly in Dublin!

👉 Conference on 🇪🇺 Europe's #HousingCrisis 🏠 @EESC_TEN

▶️ Looking for effective measures and practical solutions to increase the supply of affordable and sustainable #housing

📥 Media inquiries: [email protected]

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More data centres alone will not deliver sovereignty if critical services remain dependent on tech & decisions controlled elsewhere, writes @miroslavhajnos

3 priorities:
- stronger demand for European services
- financing
- tangible community benefits

https://t.co/LjPcdZg93D

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Skills. Quality jobs. Local opportunities. A real voice for civil society.
@ThomasWagEESC on the #MediterraneanPact

Read more here: https://t.co/JZeVYGE7MS

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✂️Cutting red tape must not mean cutting workers’ rights.

In its opinion on #employment guidelines, the #EESC calls for stronger protections on:
✅ subcontracting
✅ AI in the workplace
✅ gender equality
✅ lifelong learning

Read more 👇
https://t.co/6YS6BWlkTp

#EESCPlenary

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Europe has no shortage of ambitions. The real test is delivery.

#EuropeanSemester must turn promises into progress: boost competitiveness, support investment & strengthen social cohesion.

READ our opinion on the 2026 Spring Package from @EU_Commission: https://t.co/meCzzXXpKo

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🆕 #Energy – EESC urges more transparent #electricity bills to keep prices down

Key actions:
1⃣ increase transparency
2⃣ adopt a systemic approach to the #ElectricitySystem
3⃣ modernise the rules governing grid connections

Click here and read the story👉 https://t.co/dfHBojekB0

[Fornea Dumitru @ForneaDumitru]

🇪🇺🇲🇪 At the EU–Montenegro JCC, I stressed that EU integration must deliver decent wages and better living standards. Wage convergence, collective bargaining and quality jobs must help people build their future at home.

https://t.co/Kj7SMmMN3N

#Montenegro🇲🇪 #EESC🇪🇺#DecentWork

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New laws, old stereotypes. Why is gender equality still so far away? An interview with @EU_EESC 's @Juliane_IDA for #GenderEqualityWeek at @Europarl_EN https://t.co/KgQoPHSiMz

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🇪🇺How can civil society help Europe fight poverty?

🎥Rapporteur Anna Schoemakers explains why protecting civic space and strengthening civil society participation are essential to tackling poverty.

#EESCPlenary
#EESCAgainstPoverty
#EndPoverty
#SDG1

Watch the video 👇

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🇪🇺Poverty has many faces: every situation is different.

📽️@EESC_SOC co-rapporteur on the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, Krzysztof Balon, explains how the EESC is pushing for action to tackle poverty in all its forms.

#EESCAgainstPoverty
#EESCPlenary
#EndPoverty

Watch👇

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🇪🇺How can we build a Europe free of poverty?

🎥@EESC_SOC rapporteur on the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy, Jack O’Connor, explains how the EESC is pushing for stronger, concrete action to tackle poverty.

#EESCAgainstPoverty
#EESCPlenary
#EndPoverty

Watch the video👇

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🆕 The EU must truly empower towns and regions to make #decarbonisation a reality

🇪🇺 Local authorities are responsible for implementing 90% of the EU’s climate adaptation policies on the ground

🗞️ Click here and read the story 👉 https://t.co/LKFYrX5AtM

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🌍 Global biodiversity goals need local action!

At #COP17, @EU_EESC and @EU_CoR brought together civil society, regions & biodiversity actors to turn global commitments into concrete local action.

🔗 Read our contribution: https://t.co/3qsi0tukMM

[EESC Sustainable Development_nat-eesc.bsky.social @EESC_NAT]

🌍Global biodiversity goals need local action.

Last night at #COP17, our @EU_EESC-@EU_CoR side event convened civil society, regions and biodiversity actors to discuss how to turn ambitions into results on the ground.

🔑The key? Investment, participation and local solutions.

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🔴 Now live!

📺 Follow in web streaming: https://t.co/VcyZf20Yzr

📩 Media inquiries: [email protected]

[EESC Energy, Transport & Digital 🇪🇺 @EESC_TEN]

Our conference live now: https://t.co/a9A9hh1lAx

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📢There is no single solution to poverty.

From housing and child poverty to decent work and civic space, new #EESCPlenary opinions put rights, dignity and civil society at the heart of the fight.

Read more 👇
https://t.co/Ev0a9l47gJ

#EndPoverty

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👏Congrats to #SerbianStudents on this incredible victory!

📑Interview with 🇷🇸student Stefan Tomic in Dec 2025 #EESCInfo when #Serbia students were finalists for #SakharovPrize ➡️ https://t.co/7XOh8cjFXr

'We're fighting against corruption & for democracy & equal rights for all'