Author: Laurent Brihay

On the 17th of October 2016 , the Vice-President Katainen's speech about energy efficiency investments at the Press Club Brussels Europe on the occasion of the Press  conference organized by the European Alliance to Save Energy “Strategic Investments for Europe : Evidence from cost-effective energy efficiency stories” Benefits of energy efficiency Investment in energy efficiency is one of ...
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On 17th of October, the EU-Asia Centre, the Foreign Trade Association and the Australian Embassy co-organized a panel discussion on: “The EU-Australia FTA: Can the EU still do trade deals?” Opening the event Fraser Cameron, Director of the EU-Asia Centre, said that free trade and globalization were being called into question by many voices on both sides of the Atlantic. Just a few kilometers from ...
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What are the prospects for the EU after the Brexit referendum? Why did David Cameron not make greater use of the February deal? Should the EU have intervened in the campaign? What are the options now for both sides? On Thursday 13th October, the Cambre-Newington Brexit taskforce organized a policy breakfast with Jonathan Faull, outgoing head of the European Commission “Taskforce on Strategic Is...
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On the 11 October, the Press Club Brussels Europe host The International Launch of the 2016 Global Hunger Index “GETTING TO ZERO HUNGER” in the presence of : Neven Mimica (EU Development Commissioner) David Nabarro (UN Special Advisor, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) Shenggen Fan (Director, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington) Felix Phiri (Director, Department of...
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On Friday 16th of September, the Business Alliance for TTIP  invited the Brussels Press Corps for a breakfast briefing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the following speakers: Arnaldo Abruzzini, Chief Executive Officer, EUROCHAMBRES Clemens Betzel, Head of Government Affairs Europe, Siemens Eleonora Catella, Senior Adviser, BusinessEurope Pascal Kerne...
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On Thursday 15th of September, Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría held a news conference on the state of education and necessary reforms in OECD and EU countries. At this conference OECD’s Education at a Glance 2016 report was presented. This report is the leading international compendium of comparable national statist...
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The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) organized on Monday 12th September a press briefing on : Turkey's failed coup: implications for journalists, unionists and human rights activists with Sanar Yurdatapan, IFEX Turkey (Initiative for Freedom of Expression-Turkey) moderated by Mehmet Koksal, EFJ-IFJ & journalist Şanar Yurdatapan is a composer and human r...
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His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovakia in Brussels, Mr. Stanislav Vallo and the President of CIDIC Baron Ernest de Laminne de Bex organize a media briefing on Wednesday 7th of September to present the Economic and Academic Diplomatic Days (DEA) which will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia on the 12th and 13th of October 2016. The DEA is organized in the country that chairs the Council of the Euro...
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On Tuesday, 6th September, the European Foundation for Democracy organised a conference on Turkey's failed coup: domestic and foreign policy implications with Dr. Demir Murat Seyrek. Mr Murat Seyrek is a Senior Policy Advisor at the European Foundation for Democracy. He began his career as the Brussels representative of the ARI Movement, a leading Turkish NGO, working on Turkey-EU relations and...
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On the 27th of July, Jonathan and Nancy Kapstein invited their friends and colleagues for a farewell drinks. On behalf of the Press Club Board, Ernest Sagaga warmly thanked Jonathan Kapstein for all his dedication for all these years and observed that he had been one of the first journlist to support the Press club soon after its creation.    
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