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Speech of Mr Mario Sepi, President of the European Economic and Social Committee at the MATER FESTIVAL : "THEY'RE HERE! Role and action of women in a multicultural society"
Speech of Mr Mario Sepi, President of the European Economic and Social Committee at the MATER FESTIVAL : "THEY'RE HERE! Role and action of women in a multicultural society"
This conference comes as part of a broader approach, the first step of which was a conference on the crisis on the financial markets on 22 and 23 January of this year. Today, we have taken this approach further with a conference on the real economy, looking at it from both the productive and social points of view. All these elements will be further developed and included in the Programme for Europe, which we will debate in April with the European parliamentary groups in the run-up to the elections.
Everything to play for! - Conclusions by President Sepi