The situation of economic and social rights in South Europe — common presentation of the member organisations from Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain and Cyprus, Rui Pedrosa, Liga Portuguesa dos Direitos do Homem – Civitas

The AEDH held on May 31st, and June 1st and 2nd its annual seminar and its General Assembly. The General Assembly took place in Tallinn, Estonia, and dealt with the issue of citizenship, in the frame of the European year of Citizens.
The public seminar “citizenship, citizenships” of May, 31th aimed to gather member organisations of the AEDH, academic experts en members of the European Parliament as to enable discussions and exchanged view regarding core aspects of the EU citizenship, notably the issue of statelessness, the citizenship of residence and the social citizenship. This seminar was also the opportunity for member organisations of the AEDH to exchange best practices.

The last panel was dedicated to the issue of economic and social citizenship. Speakers highlighted the link between the current economic crisis affecting Europe and the exercise of the European citizenship. Tatjana Zdanoka, MEP, enabled us to deal with the issue in the frame of the upcoming European elections.

Read more on the AEDH website

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