The President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Georges Dassis will be visiting Athens with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 21 June

This conference is organised in the framework of the EESC Bureau meeting in Bratislava. The President will give his welcome speech at 10:30. The programme also includes speeches by:

• Robert Fico, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic and representative of the incoming presidency of the Council
• Ivan Korčok, State Secretary and Government Plenipotentiary for the Slovak presidency of the Council of the EU
• Mikuláš Luptáčik, Dean of the Faculty of National Economy at the University of Economics in Bratislava ("Towards a new economic and industrial policy for Europe: WWWforEurope")

Meeting with the President of the French Republic, François Hollande (at 17:00), in the framerwork of the Appeal of 9 May: http://www.m9m.eu/L201/ 

Speech at 11:00

Official visit of the EESC President, Georges Dassis to Italy (Caserta - Naples), helding meetings with governmental members, local authorities, civil society organisations and NGOs, in cooperation with the organisation "Cultura Contro Camorra"

Opening speech at 09:00

Attendance at the reception offered by the Russian Embassy in the framework of the the Russia Day celebration at 18:00

Speech at the Plenary Session of the International Labour Conference - ILO

Attendance at the presentation of the Program: act4Greece at the Greek Embassy of Belgium at 18:30

Openiing speech at 14:00