On Tuesday, 4 May from 10:00-11:00 CEST, we held our seventh edition of Talking Europe organised in partnership with the European Commission, this time featuring Raffaele Mauro Petriccione, Director General of DG CLIMA. This series of online events launched in 2020 aims to discuss the EU’s work and how it affects all Europeans.

Our guest Raffaele Mauro Petriccione, Director General of DG CLIMA, discussed the measures included in the Recovery Plan that will ensure the effective implementation of the European Green Deal and boost the Green Recovery providing a pathway to fight climate change. This was an opportunity to tackle the ambitions and challenges of the upcoming “Fit for 55 package” and how it will conform European legislation to the EU’s climate objectives for 2030.

Featuring Raffaele Mauro Petriccione, Director General of DG CLIMA
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 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), 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) respectively.  An overview of previous events from this series is available here.

The event was the seventh of a series of discussions entitled Talking Europe, organised in partnership with the European Commission with the aim to foster debate on the European Union’s work and its affect on the everyday lives of citizens, involving stakeholders from civil society, political institutions and the wider European community.