{"id":437521,"date":"2025-10-13T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/10\/13\/piotr-sadowski-eletto-copresidente-del-gruppo-di-collegamento-del-cese\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:47:30","slug":"piotr-sadowski-elected-co-president-of-the-eesc-liaison-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/13\/piotr-sadowski-elected-co-president-of-the-eesc-liaison-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Piotr Sadowski elected co-president of the EESC Liaison Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The Liaison Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eesc.europa.eu\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EESC<\/a>) has elected a new co-chair. He is <strong>Piotr Sadowski<\/strong>, a Pole with British citizenship and almost 15 years of experience in the European civil society sector. The unit, which Sadowski will head, brings the demands&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">of<strong>&nbsp;civil<\/strong><\/span><strong>&nbsp;society organisations and networks to the European institutions<\/strong>. &#8220;The Liaison Group is no longer just a forum for exchange, but a space for collaboration and shared responsibility, where national and European voices shape the EESC&#8217;s dialogue with the EU institutions,&#8221; said Sadowski in his inaugural speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ambition of the new co-chair is to be able to &#8220;demonstrate that <strong>civil society is an essential infrastructure<\/strong>. It is about resilience, imagination, and solidarity with those whose rights remain at risk, both inside and outside the EU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_437463\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/piotr_sadowski_photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-437463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/piotr_sadowski_photo-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/piotr_sadowski_photo-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/piotr_sadowski_photo.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-437463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piotr Sadowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">\n<p>His previous experiences are particularly suitable for this purpose. Sadowski has worked extensively in the field of civil society. He was secretary general of <a href=\"https:\/\/volonteurope.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volonteurope<\/a>, a Brussels-based European network dedicated to social justice, and also served as vice-president of the <strong>Conference of NGOs<\/strong> of the Council of Europe and vice-president of the Lifelong Learning Platform (Europe&#8217;s largest network of organisations active in the fields of education and training). His cornerstones are equality, dignity, and inclusion throughout Europe. Sadowki is a long-standing member of the <strong>European Socialist and Democratic Movement<\/strong> (S&amp;D), a fervent supporter of progressive values and an active defender of LGBTQIA+ rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">The new electee inherits the post from <strong>Brikena Xhomaqi,<\/strong> director of the Lifelong Learning Platform. Under the previous leadership, the group strengthened its role as a <strong>reliable connector between civil society organisations and EU institutions<\/strong>, promoting inclusive discussions and upholding the values of participatory democracy.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objectives of the new co-chair are to &#8220;demonstrate that civil society is an essential infrastructure.&#8221; The unit he will be in charge of bringing the demands of civil society organisations and networks to the European institutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774],"tags":[29452,26548,25847,27785,32330],"class_list":["post-437521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","tag-societa-civile-en","tag-committee-economic-and-social-en","tag-eesc-en","tag-ong-en","tag-organizzazioni-umanitarie-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437522,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437521\/revisions\/437522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}