On Monday 29 November, Martin Westlake, Secretary-General of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), delivered the seventh annual John Fitzmaurice memorial lecture, with the title ‘It’s the people, stupid!’.

A full summary of the event will appear shortly in the Germinal section of the Brussels Labour website and in the next print edition of Germinal.

In the meantime, you can read the text of the speech in the John Fitzmaurice memorial lecture section of the website, where you can find out more about the lecture.

Brussels Labour would like to thank Martin for agreeing to deliver the lecture, and also for his very generous contribution of a banner for use at future lectures (see photos below).

A selection of photos from the event is below – for more photos, visit our Flickr page.