9.00 a.m. | Registration
9.30 a.m. | Welcome
  • Mariëtte Hamer, President of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)
9.45 a.m. | Opening session
  • Gabriele Bischoff, Workers' Group President – EESC
10.00 a.m. | Priorities and Programme of the Netherlands Presidency - evaluation
  • Interventions by
  • Marcelis Boereboom, Acting  Secretary General, Ministry of Social Affairs and Emloyment
  • Allan Larsson, Special Adviser for the European Pillar of the Social Rights, European Commission
  • Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary, ETUC
  • Leo Hartveld, General Secretary of Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV)
  • Maurice Limmen, President of National Federation of Christian Trade Unions (CNV)
  • Nic van Holstein, President of Trade Union Federation for Professionals (VCP)

Debate

2.30 p.m. | Panel: Euroscepticism, renationalisation – does it already affect core trade union and workers' rights?
  • Moderator: Doekle Terpstra, Driving Force of the National Technology Pact 2020
  • Keynote speech: Caroline de Gruyter, journalist NRC Handelsblad
  • Panellists:
  • UK – Amarjite Singh, member of the Workers' Group
  • France – Pascal Debay, member of the CGT Executive Committee
  • Austria – Wolfgang Greif, member of the Workers' Group
  • Czech Republic – Stanislav Štech, Charles University Prague

Debate

4.30 p.m. | Conclusions and recommendations:
  • Gabriele Bischoff, Workers' Group President – EESC
5.00 p.m. | End of the meeting

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