Past events

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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Discussion of the priorities and goals of the CEFTA organisation under Kosovo’s 2018 chairmanship took place in Brussels Press Club on Wednesday. Speaking at the meeting, Kosovo’s ambassador to the EU Bernard Nikaj said improving regional cooperation and increasing trade will be CEFTA’s priorities under Kosovo’s leadership, all of which will be done with an eye on bringing Pristina closer to the E...
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Le mardi 28 novembre, les élus belges de la diaspora, Bertin Mampaka (Sénateur), Pierre Kompany (Député Bruxellois), Isabelle Kibassa-Maliba (Députée provinciale du Brabant Wallon) et Fatoumata Sidibé (Député Bruxelloise) ont organisé un point presse pour dénoncer les traitements inhumains et dégradants infligés aux migrants en Libye. Pour eux, aujourd’hui, il est inacceptable que des hommes, des ...
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On 23 November the EU-Asia Centre organised a panel discussion on ASEM, EAS and EU-ASEAN relations. In his introductory remarks, Fraser Cameron, Director of EU-Asia Centre, underscored the timely opportunity it provided to discuss the outcomes of the 12th East Asia Summit (EAS), the EU-ASEAN 40th commemorative summit in Manila, as well as the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) ministerial meeting in Myanm...
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Former Prime Minister of Tunisia and World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid Member, Hamadi Jebali, and Joëlle Milquet, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on victims of Terrorism and former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister meet  in the Press Club Brussels Europe on Wednesday, 15th of November
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