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FRA will attend the 10th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth in Valletta from 9 to 10 October. The event brings together young people and policymakers to exchange ideas, strengthen democratic participation and shape European youth policy.
FRA spoke about the upcoming EU Civil Society Strategy at a hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on 23 September 2025.
On 22-23 September, FRA participated in a conference of Equality Bodies from South-Eastern Europe. At the event, FRA spoke about the specific challenges that civil society organisations working on non-discrimination issues face in their work.
FRA has organised a webinar on its migration and asylum work which took place on 18 September.
FRA took part in the European Law Enforcement Communicators Conference (ELEC), hosted by Europol on 17–18 September 2025.
From 16 to 17 September, FRA hosted an expert meeting discussing the fundamental rights impact of using different encryption workarounds during criminal investigations. It was framed in the context of FRA’s ongoing research on fundamental rights implications of accessing digital data for criminal investigations.
On 29 September, FRA will hold a multilateral partner strategic cooperation workshop. This event will bring together a diverse group of actors who are active in the fields of memory, remembrance, and countering antisemitism.
FRA will join the National Roma Contact Points meeting organised by the European Commission. FRA will present results of the Roma survey 2024.
FRA will speak during an event on the digitalisation of justice systems and its implications for the legal profession. The event will be based on three panel sessions covering the digitalisation of justice in the EU, lawyers and AI, and ensuring fundamental rights within the digital transformation of justice.
FRA Director Sirpa Rautio will give a speech at the launch of the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner's report on the human rights situation of Roma and Travellers.
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The FRA Director will meet Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Cyprus to discuss FRA's cooperation with the incoming Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
FRA Director Sirpa Rautio will join the high-level political panel at the 18th European Platform for Roma Inclusion meeting. She will announce FRA's publication with results from the Roma Survey 2024 that will be available on 2 October.
FRA presented its ongoing project on the fundamental rights considerations of remote biometric identification in law enforcement during a meeting of the Biometrics Cluster of the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security.
On 18 September, at the invitation of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FRA attended discussions on the implementation of the ProtectEU Internal Security Strategy and access to data for effective law enforcement.
Roma and Travellers in the EU have more jobs and better housing than before, but poverty, discrimination and segregation remain widespread, shows a new survey from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). FRA warns that significant gaps remain between Roma inclusion targets set by the EU and the lived experiences of Roma and Traveller communities. EU countries are not likely to meet the targets by 2030.
Current and newly-appointed Members of FRA’s Management Board gathered for the first time in Vienna from 18 to 19 September. It marked an important step in the forward-looking interim assessment of the Agency’s Strategic Plan 2023–2028.
On 15-16 September, FRA’s Director was in Dublin to take part in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s inaugural annual conference, ‘Leadership on Human Rights and Equality: A Time for Courage and Vision’.
On 12 September, FRA Director Sirpa Rautio met Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, to explore ways to strengthen cooperation.
FRA will join discussions at an expert hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on 23 September about the upcoming EU Civil Society Strategy.
FRA spoke during the concluding panel of the European Rule of Law Conference 2025 in Berlin that ran from 15 to 16 September. It was part of the Re:constitution project and brought together legal practitioners, policy consulters and experts across disciplines discussed for two days to discuss how to best address the ongoing democracy and rule of law crisis in the EU.