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FRA discussed how to enhance human rights education for legal professionals and how to improve cooperation among all national and international institutions during the Council of Europe HELP Annual Networking Conference.
The OECD and Germany’s Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency invited FRA to contribute to a technical expert workshop on estimating the economic cost of discrimination.
FRA presented its guidance on monitoring fundamental rights during screening and the asylum border procedure to a European Parliament Asylum Working Group. The Group is part of the Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
On 23 July, FRA’s director will take part in the Justice Day of the informal Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Copenhagen, as part of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
FRA provided evidence-based input to support the development of the EU’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2026–2030. The contribution draws on the Agency’s survey data, research findings, and expert opinions.
FRA contributed to the European Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report, following a request from the European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection.
FRA shared input with the European Commission as it drafts its first EU affordable housing plan. FRA calls for a rights-based approach to housing.
FRA attended a European Commission meeting with EU Member States and relevant EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies to discuss the first draft of the European Annual Asylum and Migration Report.
FRA’s Director will present key findings of its annual Fundamental Rights Report 2025 on 14 July in Brussels to the European Parliament’s Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
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.