Events & Meetings

During the meeting, MEP Alice Teodorescu Måwe (EPP/Sweden) was elected as WGAS chair. All MEPs present expressed their utmost condemnation of the murder of the Bibas family by the terrorist organisation Hamas.

During the event, he engaged in numerous discussions with high-level decision-makers and stakeholders from across the globe, such as EU Council President António Costa, EPP President MEP Manfred Weber, EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner, and the Israeli and Romanian Foreign Ministers, among others.

EJC Executive Vice-President Raya Kalenova addressed the hundreds of participants at the event, which included distinguished policymakers, diplomats, leaders of Jewish communities from across the world, and Holocaust survivors, emphasising the need for the stories of the millions murdered under the Nazi regime to continue to be told for generations to come.

EJC President Ariel Muzicant, alongside EJC Vice President Raya Kalenova and EJC Director of European Affairs Ariella Woitchik, took part in the World Jewish Congress delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp.

EJC Executive Vice-President Raya Kalenova spoke on behalf of European Jewish communities and stated that, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, "despite the Nazis' attempt to erase Jewish life from history, we are still here. European Jewish communities, though diminished, remain resilient and determined to preserve their heritage and identity for future generations."

At an event organised by the European Jewish Congress in Brussels, Members of the European Parliament, prominent Belgian politicians, ambassadors and diplomatic representatives, senior EU officials, and leaders of the Jewish community gathered to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and honour the memory of the victims of the Shoah amid rising antisemitism in Europe.