On 29th March, ECAS held the fourth edition of its “State of the Union Citizens Rights” event, an annual conference aimed at identifying challenges faced by EU citizens to their right to free movement and the solutions to overcoming them.
The conference was organised in the framework of the EURECA project, under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Commission.
To learn more about what was discussed at the conference
You can also find the recordings of the conference here.
Welcome: Assya Kavrakova, Executive Director, ECAS
Keynote speech: Yana Toom, Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe Group, Vice-Chair
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Claire Damilano, Senior Legal Manager, ECAS
Marrit Westerweel, Citizens’ Advice Coordinator, ECAS
Panel Discussion: Challenges in the EU citizenship field
Moderator: Assya Kavrakova, Executive Director, ECAS
Brexit-related challenges: Julie Bishop, Director, Law Centres Network
The Impact of COVID-19 on Service Providers and Homeless People: Simona Barbu, Policy Officer, FEANTSA
Potential impact of AI on citizen rights: Dimitris Kyriazanos, Associate Researcher in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD)
Discrimination against mobile European Union citizens before and during the first COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany: Carolin Hjort Rapp, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen
Panel Discussion: Reinventing EU citizenship
The upcoming Communication on Directive 2004/38/EC and the revision of voting Directives: Sybille Luhmann, Policy Officer for Free Movement and Citizen Rights at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
The European citizenship of the future: Francesca Strumia, Senior Lecturer and Director of Internationalization, University of Sheffield
EU social citizenship: Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Political Science, University of Milan
Recommendations of the “European Way of Life” cluster of the Civil Society Convention on the Future of Europe: Piotr Sadowski, Secretary General, Volonteurope
Changing narratives on freedom of movement – results of the CORE campaign and lessons learnt
Assya Kavrakova, Executive Director, ECAS
Eoin Young, Programme Director, ICPA
Omri Preiss, Managing Director, Alliance4Europe
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Moderator and concluding remarks: Jean Lambert, former MEP, Vice-chairperson of ECAS’ Board of Directors