The Grassroots View Podcast
1) S2 Episode 7: European Year of Youth 2022: climate action is where youth empowerment should begin
As the European Year of Youth 2022 begins, we ask three leaders what they want most from this year. For all of them, a seat for young people at the table where adults make decisions that will make or ...Show More
2) S2 Episode 6: Keeping humans in command. Why the EU must ensure that the use of Artificial Intelligence respects its fundamental values
AI has been advancing in leaps and bounds over the last few years and AI applications have crept into our lives almost without us noticing it. The EESC was the first – back in 2017 – to make the case ...Show More
3) S2 Episode 5 : Without media freedom, there is no democracy
The EU may still enjoy the status of the safest place for journalists in the world, but this may easily change as the current worrying trend of intimidating, harassing and even killing reporters seems...Show More
4) S2 Episode 4: The National Recovery and Resilience Plans: three recipes for success
What can be done to make the National Recovery and Resilience Plans a success? The EESC's trio of group presidents have some answers! Listen to the insights of Employers' leader Stefano Mallia, Worker...Show More
S2 Episode 4: The National Recovery and Resilience Plans: three recipes for success
14:44 | Jul 23rd, 2021
5) S2 Episode 3: A new narrative for Europe
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the importance of solidarity among EU Members States, EU institutions and citizens. In this podcast we discuss the reasons why the Conference on the future...Show More
6) S2 Episode 2: Without solidarity where would you be now? Civil society against COVID
This time last year, the health services of the Italian city of Bergamo were sinking under the burden of COVID-19, as we hear from EESC member Giuseppe Guerini when the NGO Emergency stepped in to man...Show More
S2 Episode 2: Without solidarity where would you be now? Civil society against COVID
15:53 | Mar 18th, 2021
7) S2 Episode 1: MFF: the good, the bad and the ugly
"The Grassroots View" podcast opens its second season with an episode dedicated to the new European Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). Our four guests tell us what is the good, the bad, and the ug...Show More
8) Episode 9: La communication pendant la crise (FR)
Dans ce dernier épisode de la série, réalisé en français, Isabel Caño Aguilar, vice-présidente du CESE responsable pour la communication, parle de l'expérience de la COVID. Elle nous décrit comment la...Show More
9) Episode 8 : When the world of work comes tumbling down
When COVID-19 struck Europe, it not only brought hospitals to the verge of collapse but created havoc in its wake on many different fronts: European GDP slumped, industrial production plummeted and th...Show More
10) Episode 7: Getting the European air industry back off the ground
Caught in the crossfire of the COVID-19 and climate crises, will the European air industry take off again after months of grounding? We hear the views of Thomas Kropp, senior advisor to Lufthansa and ...Show More