Latest Past Events

Affordable Energy, a Basic Social Right – How to abolish Energy Poverty?

A workshop will be held in the European Parliament, organised by Delegation DIE LINKE. (in the European Parliament); Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office; Transform Europe Network. The following topics will be discussed: 1) Ensuring the basic social right; safeguards against disconnection: how can access to affordable energy be assured; 2) Re-municipalisation of the grid and utilities: how…

Public Hearing – Equal treatment, equality bodies and other possible means of redress for Roma

The European Economic and Social Committee is holding a public hearing at their site in the European Quarter, Brussels, on "Equal treatment, equality bodies and other possible means of redress for Roma". Anti-gypsyism and discrimination are important barriers to Roma enjoying full rights and this hearing plans to map possible avenues for redress for Roma, including…