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FRA’s Head of Unit Equality, Roma and Social Rights, Siobhan MacInerney-Lankford, will exchange views with members European Parliament’s Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
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FRA will take part in the bi-annual Infra4NextGen stakeholder board meeting. Infra4NextGen is an EU-funded project which began on 1 March 2024 to bring together output from key social science research infrastructures to help inform the NextGenerationEU programme and European Union youth policies.
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At the invitation of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FRA’s Director will participate in the informal meeting of the Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI).
FRA has published its contribution to the European Commission as part of the consultation for the next EU budget.
FRA recently published its contribution to a European Commission consultation on EU funding in the future EU budget.
FRA’s guidance on setting up national independent mechanisms to monitor compliance with fundamental rights during screening and the asylum border procedure  is now also available in more languages. It is now also in Croatian, Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
FRA took part at a meeting of the ETIAS Fundamental Rights Guidance Board which took place on 25 and 26 June in Warsaw. During the meeting, the Board discussed the methodology of the screening rules, the criteria for the ex-ante assessment of the risk indicators and the 2024 annual report.
FRA joined the Budapest Pride 30: International Human Rights Conference that ran from 24 to 26 June. It took part in a panel debate about the future of Europe.
FRA contributed to the training on 23-28 June in Bucharest for Schengen evaluators in the field of return and management of external borders. This is a regular event organised jointly by the European Commission and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex.
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The ‘Annual EU CharterXchange’ is an initiative of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Commission to enhance the application of the rights enshrined in the EU Charter for Fundamental Rights (EU Charter), in line with the objectives of the European Commission’s 'Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU’ (2020), and the subsequent Council conclusions on strengthening the application of the EU Charter in the EU (2021). The CharterXchange aims at increasing the exchange of knowledge and experience and fostering collaboration among experts, policymakers, and stakeholders through a regular forum, which started in 2023, dedicated to the EU Charter. The agenda and take-aways of the first and second EU CharterXchanges are available online. This special edition of the 3rd CharterXchange supports the 25th anniversary conference organised by the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Commission together with the FRA. The results of the Charter Exchange will feed into a high-level 25th anniversary conference convening 200 government officials, legal practitioners and experts in Brussel on 10 and 11 December.
FRA gave an online presentation to a Center for the Study of Democracy roundtable on ‘Fundamental Rights, Artificial Intelligence and EU Law: Safeguards and Challenges’. The event was organised in the framework of the FAIR project, which aims to raise awareness about the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
On 20 June, FRA hosted a meeting of fundamental rights officers from the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA), Frontex, and Europol. They are an internal fundamental rights protection mechanism that EU agencies with operational activities which impact on people’s rights have set up as a safeguard to protect and promote the respect for fundamental rights in their activities.
FRA was a speaker during a panel on the EU’s proposed new return regulation and the concept of ‘return hubs’ at the 25th Berlin Symposium on Refugee Protection. It focused on fundamental rights issues and limitations.
FRA met with national statutory bodies from EU Member states on 20 and 27 June. These included National Human Rights Institutions, Equality Bodies and Ombuds institutions.
From 23 to 26 June, FRA attended meetings of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). It presented FRA’s priorities in the area of combating antisemitism, including in the area of Holocaust education and remembrance.
FRA took part in the Annual Conference of the European Partnership for Democracy on ‘Rebooting Democracy, Lessons from the Past, Code for the Future’.
FRA attended a meeting of the Working Group on the Implementation of the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life which took place from 17 to 18 June in Gdansk.
FRA gave a presentation at the event ‘The Long Shadow of Antisemitism – Finland and Europe without Antisemitism’ on 12 June. FRA spoke about its work on antisemitism and its latest survey findings.
FRA will present and discuss the key findings of its annual Fundamental Rights Report 2025 during an online event on 1 July that addresses the organisations participating in its Fundamental Rights Platform as well as the Ombuds institutions, Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutions.