Ciudad Real shines as ESU celebrates 30 years
Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real shines as ESU celebrates 30 years
As 2025 draws to a close, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and warmest wishes to all our Members and Representatives — for your dedication, your energy, and the many achievements we have realised together this year.
2025 has been a very special year for ESU. We celebrated 30 years of our organisation’s commitment to seniors’ rights, dignity and active participation in Europe — most notably during the anniversary gathering in Ciudad Real, where we adopted the Ciudad Real Strategic Action Plan 2030. That Plan now provides us with a clear and forward-looking roadmap, underpinning our mission to champion an age-friendly Europe, strengthen intergenerational solidarity, and amplify the voice of seniors across all Member States.
Throughout 2025 we have continued to uphold the core values of ESU — respect, fairness, dignity, solidarity and equal rights. From promoting active ageing, fighting age-discrimination, to advocating for inclusive policies on pensions, care, digital inclusion and social protection — your commitment to these causes has never wavered.
Thanks to your efforts, ESU remains the leading European seniors’ organisation within the European People’s Party (EPP), representing over a million members across 27 countries.
As we prepare to turn the page to 2026, we want to encourage you to carry forward the momentum. With the Strategic Action Plan 2030 now adopted, we are well positioned to translate our shared vision into concrete action, to implement our annual work-plans under its guidance, and to reinforce our role as a strong, unified, intergenerational voice for seniors in Europe.
Over the winter holidays, your organisation will receive paper copies of the Annual Report 2025, as well as our so-called Workbook for our Strategic Action Plan 2030, it recalls how we proceeded to establish the Strategic Action Plan, together with all the background documents, as well as some guidance for the future elaboration of the 2026 Workplan.
May the coming year bring you and your loved ones health, happiness, and renewed energy. I look forward to seeing all of you again — online and in person — as we embark on a new cycle of engagement and solidarity in 2026.
With warm wishes and deepest respect.