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Philippe Seidel Leroy

Philippe Seidel Leroy

Policy Manager on Social Protection and European Parliament. AGE Platform Europe.

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A new chapter for the EU, is it a new chapter for age equality?

This comprehensive article highlights that age equality played a minimal role during the electoral campaigns, although some changes occurred. Notably, some parties' manifestos mentioned the importance of age equality.

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Given the climate emergency situation we are going through, and in the local/global context of urban population growth, it is urgent to seek solutions that mitigate the impacts of climate change on people's lives.

Across the European Union (EU), the legitimacy of civil society organisations is being increasingly questioned, at a moment when democracy needs them the most. 

The 2nd Prison Volunteer Meeting, held on April 18 in Barcelona, ​​put on the table a collective urgency: to stop looking at prison only from the perspective of punishment and start talking about dignity, reintegration and social responsibility.