Author: Laurent Brihay

On Monday 19 February the new party DierAnimal has been launched at the Press Club. it's a new national, unified and bilingual animal advocacy party. Public opinion is increasingly concerned with animal welfare and the fate of animals. For these reasons, amongst others, the party founders believe that the animal issue must be politicized, as it is already the case in more than fifteen european co...
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L'institut Jacques Delors en collaboration avec Kantar Public ont organisé vendredi 16 février une conférence; " Les Italiens et l'Europe, chronique d'un désenchantement" Orateurs : Sébastien Maillard, Directeur de l'institut Jacques Delors Sophie Goudet, General Manager Kantar Public Brussels      
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The Kurdish Institute organised a press conference on Wednesday February 14th to denounce the Turkish invasion and crimes against humanity and genocide in Afrin. Pictures : Salih Muslim. former Co-Chair of the PYD (Democratic Union Party). Now memeber of diplomatic realation of the TEV-DEM (Democratic Society Movement, the governing body of the North Syria Federation) and Riyad Derar (Suleman A...
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 By David Gow, Senior Advisor to acumen public affairs, recently moderated the joint Acumen and ECPA event on the future of the Brussels Press Corps. “Journalism covers the EU well – for the elite,” said a 2014 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report, Reporting the EU, co-written by Cristina Marconi, an Italian journalist and former habituée of the Berlaymont salle de presse. T...
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On the 30th January, the European Personnel Selection Office organised a panel discusion : Attracting future generations to the EU By David Bearfield & Claudine Camilleri, European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) Like many organisations, we will be experiencing in the years to come an unprecedented change in the structure of the EU workforce: a vast number of seasoned staff members w...
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The European Movement in Belgium, in partnership with Visit.brussels and the European Federalists organised on the 26th January a New Year Bulgarian cultural evening with Eva Maydell (Paunova), MEP (EPP) and President of the European Movement On January 1, 2018, a decade after its accession to the EU, Bulgaria took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU for the first time. For si...
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On the 24th of January, NRC and IDMC launched their New report: repeated displacement blights lives of Afghans “The findings of our report should make European nations and Afghanistan’s neighbours freeze deportations and rethink their policies. Now is not the time to deport Afghans. War-torn Afghanistan today is no place to be returned to. Decision-makers are likely to regret the ma...
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On the 24 January, Dr. José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace prize winner and Former President of the Democratic Republic of East-Timor held a Press Conference. Dr José Ramos-orta is in Brussels to participate in the Political Dialogue with the European Union under Article 8 of the ACP-EU partnership (Cotonou) Agreement. Before he was renown as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. José Ramos-Horta was kn...
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