On Thursday, 14 July from 10:30-11:30 CEST, the European Movement International held the thirteenth edition of Talking Europe organised in partnership with the European Commission, this time featuring Michael Köhler, Acting-Director General of DG ECHO. This series of online events launched in 2020 aims to discuss the EU’s work and how it affects all Europeans.

Our guest Michael Köhler, Acting Director General of DG ECHO, discussed Russia’s harmful invasion of Ukraine from a humanitarian perspective. The discussion highlighted the developments of the conflict and the recent work of DG ECHO.  

Featuring Michael Köhler, Acting-Director General of DG ECHO
Moderated by Petros Fassoulas, Secretary General, European Movement International

The livestream is available here:

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 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, Director General of DG 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), Maciej Popowski, Acting Director General of DG NEAR (22 November 2021), Joost Korte, Director General of DG EMPL (1 March 2022) and Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the EEAS (25 April 2022), respectively.  An overview of previous events from this series is available here.