What kind of Europe do you dream of? Civil society and the Conference on the Future of Europe
"Connecting EU" Seminar • 18-19 November 2021 - Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday 18 November 2021
8.30 – 9.30 a.m. Registration and Welcome Coffee
9.30 – 10.10 a.m. Welcome session
- Chair and introduction: Cillian Lohan, EESC Vice-President for Communication
Opening speeches:
- Christa Schweng, EESC President
- Francisco Assis, President of the Economic and Social Council of Portugal, former Member of the European Parliament
- Elza Pais, member of the Portuguese Parliament, , former Secretary of State for Equality - The role of women in the debate on the future of Europe
- Daniel Rosário, head of Communication and spokesperson, European Commission Representation in Portugal - How the CoFoE platform works
10.10 – 10.30 a.m. Keynote speech - The Conference on the Future of Europe: what's in it for civil society?
- Miguel Poiares Maduro, Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy -
10.30 – 11 a.m. Coffee break
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panel I – The health crisis and its impact on the future of Europe
Moderated by: Raquel Morão Lopes, journalist, European Affairs specialist at RTP (Radio and Television of Portugal)
Introduction to the topic: Stefano Mallia, President of the EESC Employers' Group
Panel:
- Isabelle Marchais, EU health expert at the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris
- Małgorzata Bonikowska, President and co-founder of THINKTANK, Polish analytical centre for International Relations
- Lorenzo Consoli, ASKA NEWS, Brussels correspondent
- Anniek de Ruijter, co-initiator of the European Health Union Manifesto initiative and associate professor of Health Law and Policy, University of Amsterdam
1 – 2.30 p.m. Lunch
2.30 – 4.30 p.m. Panel II – A stronger economy, social justice and jobs - What's Europe got to do with it?
Moderated by: Mónica Silvares, journalist, ECO - Economia online
Introduction to the topic: Oliver Röpke, President of the EESC Workers' Group
Panel:
- Francesco Corti, associate researcher, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels and adjunct professor, University of Milan
- Michael Sauga, DER SPIEGEL Brussels correspondent
- Xenia Kounalaki, head of Kathimerini's foreign news desk
- Susana Peralta, Associate professor, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
4.30 – 5.30 p.m. Exchange of views with press officers from civil society organisations
8 – 10 p.m. Networking dinner
Friday 19 November 2021
9.30 – 10 a.m. Registration and coffee
10 – 10.15 a.m. Opening
Cillian Lohan, EESC Vice-President
Ana Rita Moura, European Parliament – The structure of the Conference on the Future of Europe and the citizens' panels
10.15 a.m. – 1 p.m. Panel III – European democracy How can we buttress press freedom in Europe against looming multiple threats?
Moderated by: Bruno Kaufmann, global democracy correspondent at SWI swissinfo.ch and Northern European Correspondent, SRF News, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
Introduction to the topic: Seamus Boland, President of the EESC Diversity Europe Group
Panel:
- Matthew Caruana Galizia, journalist, director and co-founder, Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation
- Julie Majerczak, head of Brussels office, Reporters without Borders
- Anthony Bellanger, secretary general of the International Federation of Journalists
- Andrzej Stankiewicz, political correspondent, deputy editor-in-chief of ONET.PL
- Márton Kárpáti, journalist, Hungarian news portal TELEX, former deputy editor in chief at Index.hu
- Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová, journalist, SME, Slovakia
1 – 1.10 p.m. Close
- Cillian Lohan, EESC Vice-President
Simultaneous interpreting in English, French and Portuguese.