On Monday, 22 November from 16:30-17:30 CET, we held the tenth edition of Talking Europe organised in partnership with the European Commission, this time featuring Maciej Popowski, Acting Director General of DG NEAR. This series of online events launched in 2020 aims to discuss the EU’s work and how it affects all Europeans.

Our guest Maciej Popowski, Acting Director General of DG NEAR, discussed the recent work of DG NEAR, including the state of the enlargement and neighbourhood policies in the European Union, the promotion of EU values in Europe’s eastern and southern neighbourhood and the recent developments in the accession countries.

Featuring Maciej Popowski, Acting Director General of DG NEAR
Moderated by Petros Fassoulas, Secretary General, European Movement International

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

The livestream is available here:

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), and Monique Pariat, Director General of DG HOME (9 November 2021) respectively.  An overview of previous events from this series is available here.