COMECE Secretariat expressed its position concerning the chosen topic of "belonging" in the context of the consultation launched by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in view of the Fundamental Rights Forum 2018.
The Plenary of the European Parliament has approved the CULT Committee decision to enter into negotiations with the Council and the Commission on the revision of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. COMECE welcomes this vote and encourages the EU institutions to prioritise child protection in the forthcoming negotiations.
Justice & Peace Europe, with COMECE, organises a lunch event on Securing Democracy and Justice in Post-Communist Europe. Keynote speaker will be Prof. Peter Rožič, S.J., who has led an in-depth comparative research of these “lustration” processes and put them in relation with available data on levels of corruption.
Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) present new legal and ethical challenges both in terms of liability and responsibility. COMECE welcomes the debate on this theme at the EU level, and cautions against potential risks deriving from according legal personality to robots.
