High-level debate on Defence funding in the EU

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PROGRAMME

14:30 | Welcome and introductory remarks

  • Ioannis Vardakastanis, President of the ECO section, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

14:40 | Keynote Address: 

  • Pawel Karbownik, Deputy Finance Minister, Republic of Poland

15:00    The economics of defence funding

  • Guntram Wolff, Senior fellow at Bruegel, Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
  • Roel Beetsma, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam

15:45 | The policy outlook for defence funding

  • Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the Annual Report on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) 
  • Michael Erhart, Director of Central Financial Services, European Commission, Directorate-General for Budget (BUDG)
  • Oliver Cusworth, Senior Policy Officer, EIB Security and Defence Office, European Investment Bank 

16:30 | Views of EU organised civil society

  • Vassilis Theodosopoulos, Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)
  • Eric Brune , Chair of the industriAll Europe defense industry network
  • Gabriella Civico, President, Civil Society Europe

17:15 | Debate
    
18:05 | Summary and conclusions

  • Marcin Nowacki, rapporteur for the EESC exploratory opinion on "Defence Funding in the EU"

18:15 | End of the high-level debate