Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee Meeting
Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee Meeting
Audiovisual Social Dialogue Committee Meeting
Béatrice Delvaux (Le Soir), Jeroen Roppe (Bruzz), Yvan Vandenbergh (Bruxselfuture), Tarik Laabi (Arabel), Simon Werner (Tout Autre Information), Jean-Jacques Deleeuw (BX1), Martine Simonis (AJP)
Eurocadres, the Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff, is organising an event on whistleblowing on 30 October during their 4th Congress. With the support of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), the event will take place in Brussels, at the EESC premises in room VMA3. The overall Congress starts at 9.00, but on Monday afternoon, Eurocadres will host an event on whistleblower protection, followed by a Congress evening dinner event starting 19:00 at Grand Central. The panel discussion will focus on current progress in the EU call on whistleblower protection. Confirmed panellists are professor David Lewis from Middlesex…
The EFJ GS Ricardo Gutiérrez will moderate the following panel: Engaging and providing for LGBT population: Policies and strategies outside the big city Analysing existing legislation, policies and practices on LGBTphobia Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University Is 'homonationalism' always already wrong? LGBT/Q strategies in Wroclaw Monika Baer, Wroclaw University The Catalan LGBT Network of Local Councils Míriam Ferràndiz, Ajuntament de Sabadell Agenda: divercityfinalconf_en_web
The EU Commissioner for the European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn is organizing the “EU – Western Balkans Media Days”, which will be held on 9-10 November 2017 in Tirana, Albania, in the hotel The Plaza. The EFJ President Mogens Blicher Bjerregård will represent the EFJ.
MEP Cécile Kyenge (S&D) is organising the conference "Race, Racism and Xenophobia in a Global Context III" in collaboration with the New York University Florence at the European Parliament in Brussels, on November 9th, 2017. The EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will participate to the third panel on “Communication, Racism and Xenophobia in the Post-Truth Era” from 12:00-13:00 on November 9th, 2017.
"Fake news" is currently being discussed in sensitive contexts such as the US Presidential elections, Brexit and after EU electoral campaigns. The reasons why this phenomenon is more pervasive and impactful today than ever before are the ease with which news can be posted and shared on social media, the velocity with which such news may spread, and the global reach it might effortlessly attain. Consequently, President Juncker has taken up the challenge of fake news in his letter of Intent to the European Parliament and equally in his Mission letter to Commissioner Gabriel. He calls for action to "address…