From September to December 2023, the YFTAs will host a series of roundtables with key EU actors, including activists, policymakers, NGOs and journalists.

These conversations will explore the barriers, challenges and leverage points that influential voices at EU level use to advance their agendas — and what the YFTAs can learn from them.

Through these exchanges, the YFTAs will gain first-hand insights into effective advocacy strategies, alliance-building, policymaker engagement, and the use of both social and traditional media to drive change. The roundtable series will ensure that the collective's approach to policy advocacy is well-informed, targeted and grounded in the realities of EU decision-making.

Register here to join us in the first roundatable featuring:

• Nicoletta Merlo (Member of the the Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment (NAT) Bureau of the European Economic and Social Committee);
• Judith Kirton-Darling (Former Labour Member of the European Parliament);
• Casper de Boer (Political Assistant in the Cabinet of EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders)
  
  

About the YFTAs:

The YFTAs are a diverse group of young individuals (18-30) who are calling for a global, fair, and ecological transition. With the ambition to reform the current socioeconomic system which endangers the lives of billions of people, we have spent the last two years meeting with politicians, conducting dialogues with the Global South, and preparing policy papers. The programme was initiated in 2021 by the Fair Trade Advocacy Office.

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