Past events

The country’s highly controversial blasphemy laws came under close scrutiny as delegates considered the multiple ways in which the laws are abused. Several delegates presented individual cases, including one of an 11 year-old girl, falsely accused of burning pages from the Koran. The conference heard that such allegations are often levelled as a means of settling personal grievances. The consequen...
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Article from The Brussels Times Sunday, 04 April 2021 Frank Vandenbroucke, minister of health and social affairs, receiving the report on risk management of events, 1 April, credit: #restartMICE The Belgian trade association for events organisation (Febelux) and the collective #restartMICE have presented a report on how infection risks at events during the coronavirus crisis...
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Media invitation - Press conference Poverty in the European Union: UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter on poverty presents EU mission findings 29 January 2021 – 10:30 CET Live-streamed from the Press Club Brussels Europe What: On January 29, 2021, at 10.30a.m. CET, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will present the preliminary findings ...
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Conference: new Chernobyls on Europe's doorstep? A high level conference discussing safety issues surrounding the construction of new nuclear reactor plants in Belarus, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. Friday 29 January 2020 at 14.00 Press Club Brussels Europe Keynote speakers: Jutta PAULUS MEP.  Michèle RIVASI MEP. Members of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public He...
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on Thursday, 24th September 2020 After some years when asylum and migration have been addressed in a crisis mode, the new Pact on Asylum and Migration is due at the end of September. It is an opportunity for the EU and its Member States to change direction. Will the Pact attain this objective? Beyond the Pact, what are the other priorities for the EU in the domain of asylum and migration? Anal...
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On the Tuesday 22 September Isabelle Durant, UNCTAD's Under Secretary-General, organised a Press Conference to present their Trade and Development Report 2020. The report warns that if austerity wins out again, then a “lost decade” will be unavoidable, spelling an end to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  
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Foreign Minister Mr. Fuad Hussein during his visit to Brussels, which is the second round of his official tour to European countries, stated that Iraq is a promising country and has the future, adding that “We are trying to make clear to neighboring countries that we want to establish balanced relations … We ask neighboring countries to respect the sovereignty of Iraq, and not to interfere in its ...
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This conference jointly organised by the Centre Kantar sur le Futur de l’Europe and Europe Jacques Delors at the Press Club Brussels Europe on the 3rd March 2020 placed citizens’ attitudes towards climate change and the environment at the centre of the debate on the European Green Deal. How do European citizens perceive climate change and the environmental challenges facing our society? What role ...
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On the 19 February, the Heinrich Böll Foundation organized a press briefing  with the authors of the study "Places of Safety in the Mediterranean: The EU’s Policy of Outsourcing Responsibility", Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat and Prof. Dr. Nora Markard. EU dilemma: Returning migrants to unsafe places (by Mose Apelblat Brussels times) A new report claims that EU member states, in particular Italy...
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By Cambre Associates Cambre’s #BrusselsCalling media debate series is back, kicking off the year with the European Commission’s climate chief Mauro Petriccione asking leading journalists how they cover climate – Europe’s highest-profile topic this year. From dwindling public interest to high profile policy action, here are the key takeaways from our heated debate with the FT’s Mehreen Khan, Eur...
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