On Monday 25 April, from 10:00 to 10:45 CET, the EMI held the twelfth edition of Talking Europe organised in partnership with the European Commission, this time featuring Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the European External Action Service. This series of online events launched in 2020 aims to discuss the EU’s work and how it affects all Europeans.

Our guest Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the EEAS, discussed the recent work of the European External Action Service, developments in the Ukraine war and the Common Foreign and Security Policy. 

Featuring Stefano Sannino, Secretary General of the European External Action Service
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.

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_eeas.

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) and Joost Korte, Director General of DG EMPL (1 March 2022) respectively.  An overview of previous events from this series is available here.