On Tuesday, 01 March from 11:00-12:00 CET, the EMI held the eleventh edition of Talking Europe organised in partnership with the European Commission, this time featuring Joost Korte, Director-General of DG EMPL. This series of online events launched in 2020 aims to discuss the EU’s work and how it affects all Europeans.

Our guest Joost Korte, Director-General of DG EMPL discussed the recent work of DG EMPL, including the European Employment Strategy, social inclusion with regards to the Covid-19 crisis and the recent developments in a green and digital transition strategy.

Featuring Joost Korte, Director-General of DG EMPL
Moderated by Petros Fassoulas, Secretary General, European Movement International

The event was live-streamed from the European Movement International Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. You can find the recording of the event below.

We encourage participants to join the discussions on Twitter by using the hashtag #TalkingEurope and the handles @EMInternational and @EU_Commission.

Previous events from this series have featured Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, Director General of the Commission’s DG Communications (16 June 2020), Dubravka Šuica, Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography (7 July 2020), Sabine Weyand Director General of DG Trade (23 July 2020), Wolfgang Burtscher, Director General of DG Agriculture & Rural Development (23 September 2020), Themis Christophidou, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (5 February 2021), Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director General of DG Energy (16 March 2021), Raffaele Mauro Petriccione, Director General of DG CLIMA (4 May 2021), Salla Saastamoinen, Acting Director General of DG JUST (16 September 2021), Monique Pariat, Director General of DG HOME (9 November 2021) and Maceij Popowski, Acting Diretor General of DG NEAR.  An overview of previous events from this series is available here.