Events

On Saturday 27 November, a webinar organised and hosted by MEP Andrey Slabakov will bring together Members of the European Parliament, representatives from the European Commission and Bulgarian Ministry of Health, international oncology experts and the pharmaceutical industry for a virtual roundtable discussion on the EU's approach to fighting cancer. In light of on an upcoming vote of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer, MEP Andrey Slabakov has invited stakeholders to the table to discuss the expected impacts of the Beating Cancer Plan, not only on a policy level, but for real patients, for those at risk, and for cancer survivors. The event aims to highlight both the strong and weak points underlying the European strategy on cancer and any potential for its improvement.

On Monday 29 November 2021, ECR MEP Izabela Kloc will host an online event on the role of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in the energy and economic strategies of the European Union. Politicians and experts will exchange views over one of the most important regulatory instruments that the European Union intends to use to maintain its economic competitiveness in the era of the European Green Deal.

On Friday 3 December 2021, the ECR Group will host an international expert conference in Warsaw on the future of the European Union, entitled: "How to reform the Union for the future of Europe". Notable figures from academia will come together across three discussion panels, entitled: ‘How to properly define common European values, and how to work these values into the Treaties’, ‘How to reform the institutional system of the EU’ and ‘Change of the Treaty: How to transpose the proposed institutional form into a legal framework’.

On Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 March 2022, the ECR Group will host recognised experts in the fields of security, economy, democratisation and European integration, as well as current and former decision-makers from the Eastern Partnership region for the first ECR Eastern Partnership Summit, titled ‘Eastern Partnership – Europe as a civilisational choice’.

The French EU Council Presidency, European Security, and the EU Mediated Georgian-Russian Cease-Fire Agreement of 2008. Current State and the Way Forward

Europe as a Civilisational Choice

On Tuesday 21 June 2022, ECR Foreign Affairs Coordinator Anna Fotyga will host a conference in cooperation with the Kalinowski Forum. The discussion will focus on the future of a democratic Belarus as part of the European family and in the context of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. The event will open with special remarks from Žygimantas Pavilionis, Chairperson of the Kalinovski Forum; Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland; Ms Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania; Ms Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of democratic Belarus; and Olivér Várhelyi, EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement. The Conference will cover topics such as ‘The battle for freedom, Lukashenko’s regime in the context of the war against Ukraine’, ‘The people of freedom’. Repressions and the situation of political prisoners’, ‘Sanctions. Deterring Lukashenko’s internal violence and alignment with the Russian aggressor’ and ‘Truth vs. lies. The situation of independent media vs regime propaganda’.