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Climate Finance Forum - modalities and first tasks

62 pages

The study provides a review of the issues facing non-state actors in accessing climate finance in the EU. Non-state actors, including local and regional authorities, businesses (including SMEs), trade unions, civil society and NGOs, face specific challenges when accessing climate finance. These can include the absence of enabling regulatory and policy frameworks, information barriers, internal capacity constraints and a group of challenges related to restricted availability of climate finance.

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2020

European Democracy Passport

40 pages

The new European Democracy Passport, available since Spring 2020 and in 23 official languages, facilitates public participation across the European Union, the world’s biggest transnational democracy, with its 27 Member States, 300 regions and more than 100 000 municipalities.

Published in: 
2020

The EESC's activities during the German Presidency – July-December 2020

6 pages

The German Presidency should pave the way to a European recovery that invests in a care strategy

In the second half of 2020, Germany will assume the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The German Presidency comes at a time when the European Union is facing unprecedented challenges. While its programme and organisational possibilities are heavily impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, there is widespread demand and political energy to depart from business-as-usual modus operandi and embrace change.

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2020

Business is key to the EU’s recovery from the corona crisis

4 pages

Position paper of the EESC Employers’ Group

The corona crisis is a huge human and societal tragedy for Europeans and for people throughout the world. Tackling its diverse impacts requires a series of measures, from coping with the emergency stage and proceeding via recovery and rebuilding towards long-term success and stability. Businesses that manage to recover well and succeed are key to the recovery of the EU economy as a whole.

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2020

Fundamental rights and the rule of law - National developments from a civil society perspective, 2018-2019, Report, June 2020

140 pages

The report highlights trends in Europe based on seven country visits that took place in 2018-2019 in Romania, Poland, Hungary, Austria, France, Bulgaria and Italy. It updates the interim report published in November 2019, integrates the main conclusions of the November 2019 conference on ‘Fundamental rights and the rule of law – Trends in the EU from a civil society perspective’, and annexes country reports and observations by the national authorities.

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2020

Participatory Democracy - A success story written by the EESC

372 pages

This compendium brings together all the opinions and reports which, over the last thirty years, have enabled the EESC and civil society organisations to strengthen participatory democracy and become an indispensable part of the European decision-making process.

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2020
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