From the 3rd till the 5th of June 2024, a team of representatives from diverse Catalan organisations, working for Global Justice, had the chance to visit the European Institutions and dialogue with representatives of the DG  INTPA (International Affairs), DG ECHO (Humanitarian Aid) of the European Commission, the European External Action Service and the Development Committee of the European Parliament.

These series of Dialogues were organised by AHEAD in the frames of the project "Listening Houses in the Democratic Republic of Congo" coordinated by the League of Peoples' Rights with the support of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation.

On the second day of the visit, the following dialogues with the representatives from the European Commission took place:

The European Commission: the political executive of the European Union

Luigi FIORINO
Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
(ECHO)

International Partnerships : the example of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Philippe BERNHARD
International Aid / Cooperation Officer - République Démocratique du Congo
Unit A.4 - Eastern and Central Africa
Directorate-General International Partnerships

How the EU promotes Human Rights

Felix RATHJE
Policy Officer - Human Rights
GLOBAL.VMR.3 - Human Rights
European External Action Service

The political relations of the EU with the African Union

Rok KOZELJ
European External Action Service
Division EU-AU relations; Peace and Security; Migration and Mobility; Multilateral Affairs;
Youth

The diverse encounters and dialogues served to explore the latest developments on the agenda of the General Directorates of the European Commission and raise concerns and questions about the situation of civil society, specially in Congo, and the political contradictions on the diverse policies of the European institutions and the role that dialogue should play in addressing these challenges in a coordinated way with the Global Justice organisations.