9:30 | Opening session
chaired by Staffan Nilsson, President of the EESC
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Welcoming address by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and Jean-Paul Delevoye, President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council
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Opening statement by Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute
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Personal life paths: examples of successful integration:
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Melek Usta, director of Colourful people recruitment agency (Netherlands)
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Peter Bossman, Mayor of Piran (Slovenia)
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Saddie Choua, director of the film "This is my home now"
Open debate
11:20 | Coffee break
11:35 | "Five minutes to convince": Immigration – risk or opportunity?
Chaired by Shada Islam (Friends of Europe)
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Diane Schmitt, Acting director for Migration and Asylum, DG Home Affairs, European Commission
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Dr Corrado Giulietti, Director of Research of the Institute for the Study of Labour
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Claus Folden, Head of Operational Support, European Asylum Support Office
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Staffan Nilsson, EESC President
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Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
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Jean-Paul Delevoye, President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council
Open debate
12:45 | Lunch
13:45 | Screening of a part of This is my home now, a documentary by Saddie Choua (room JDE62)
14:15 | Thematic session: The contribution of immigration: an opportunity, a source of wealth
chaired by Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs Programme, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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Elizabeth Collett, Director of Migration Policy Institute - Europe and Senior Advisor to MPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration
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Peter Verhaeghe, Member of the Bureau of the European Integration Forum, Caritas Europa
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Philip Claeys, Member of the European Parliament (Belgium/Non-attached members)
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Luis Miguel Pariza Castaños, President of the EESC's Permanent study group on Immigration and Integration (IMI)
Open debate
15:15 | Thematic session: Respect for immigrants' fundamental rights: a duty
Chaired by Yves Pascouau, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre
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John Kellock, Policy Advisor, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
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Luis Jimena Quesada, European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe
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Michael Diedring, Secretary General of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles
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Emmanuelle Hauser-Phelizon, Lawyer specialised in the rights of migrants (France)
Open debate
16:15 | Conclusions
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Staffan Nilsson, EESC President
