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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>How are we living up to the Rio+20 commitments on sustainable development?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Achim Steiner talked to EU civil society about Rio+20 follow-up actions, the sustainable development goals and the post-2015 development agenda  
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner spoke yesterday to the European Economic and Social Committee and other European civil society representatives on the subject of "Advancing Sustainable Development Post-Rio+20". Mr Steiner spoke of the need for a fully inclusive consultation process for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that must involve governments, civil society and the private sector. This struck a chord with the EESC, which has already started its Rio+20 follow-up work by setting up broad consultation forums with civil society and institutional stakeholders at EU level on the sustainable development goals and linking them with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).]]></description>
            <link>http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.press-releases.28122</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <category>Employment and social rights</category>
            <category>Economic and Social Committee</category>
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            <title>If the EU is to succeed in its energy transition, it must take society with it</title>
            <description><![CDATA[There must be an open and transparent European energy dialogue both within and between EU Member States: this is the message of a joint declaration adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute yesterday in Paris. This text will be presented to the European Council ahead of its 22 May meeting centred on energy. 
Mr Malosse, EESC President, and Jacques Delors, former European Commission president and founding president of Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute, stress that the public are worried about energy issues. Energy policy can mobilise them around a European project that offers them added value and real, tangible results.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.press-releases.28118</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <category>Employment and social rights</category>
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            <title>The real overall cost of intermittent renewable energy must be better assessed and revealed, urges the EESC</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The debate on the overall cost of electricity from intermittent renewable energy sources must be completely transparent and the data publicly available, said the European Economic and Social Committee at Wednesday's Informal Meeting of Energy Ministers in Dublin.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.press-releases.28014</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <category>Employment and social rights</category>
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            <title>Without a European vision, there can be no sustainable solution to energy access</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Statement by the EESC President. During his visit to Lithuania, Henri Malosse, EESC President, travelled to the Ignalina plant, closed at the request of the European Commission as one of the conditions of Lithuania's accession to the European Union.
"Access to energy is a key issue for all countries as well as their citizens. However, if Europe is to play a role, if European integration is to make sense, it is precisely by addressing the strategic challenge of sharing energy resources. Member States will achieve nothing in the long term if they act alone."]]></description>
            <link>http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.press-releases.27986</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <category>Employment and social rights</category>
            <category>Economic and Social Committee</category>
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            <title>European presidency and energy issues on the agenda for meeting with Lithuanian President</title>
            <description><![CDATA[EESC president Henri Malosse today met the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, to address the challenge of the lack of support by European citizens for the European leadership. With particular reference to energy issues, he warned about the impact of policies that did not involve the people and the difficulty of winning back popular support in these days of economic crisis.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.press-releases.27974</link>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <category>Employment and social rights</category>
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