20/02/2024
🇪🇺 EuropeTalks annual conference 2024 in Brussels.
This time main topic of the conference was “Migration”.
EuropeTalks activists from 10 different countries visited European Parliament (EP) to meet MEP Brando Benifei and Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar to discuss their experience in the EP and especially regarding migration issues.
Tobias Beylat (FES policy officer on Migration and Integration) prepared a presentation for us about the recent developments in EU migration politics.
We held our traditional session “Country updates”, which were focused on migration issues in various countries. We discussed the experience of Spain and Italy with migrants from the African continent, the experience of the Baltic countries with the refugee crisis on the border with Belarus, the situation with migration policy in central Europe, and also looked at migration issues from a completely different perspective - in Ukraine.
Representatives of the SD platform spoke about situation on the frontline, about lack of force, about the reconstruction of the country.
❗️Every EU member state emphasize different priorities in the framework of migration, but only common approach is able to address these issues.
Of course, we discussed not only migration issues. On the way to the EP we witnessed a strike by farmers, who demanded not to ignore farmers’ concerns for better prices and less bureaucracy.
Also we had an honor to meet Rene Repasi – German MEP, who just announced political agreement on new consumer rights “Right to Repair”. It is a concept that end users, business users as well as consumers, of technical, electronic or automotive devices should be allowed to freely repair these products even after legal guarantee has expired.
EuropeTalks is constantly developing organization and we also discussed to future strategy of ET and identified aspects of our work that we want to improve and develop. We have defined our work plan for 2024 and 2025 and have already started working on it.
👏 We would like to thank the FES Brussels representatives for their assistance in organizing this event and we were delighted to meet the FES representatives at the reception on the first day of the conference.
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung