Programme

09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Testing possibility for the Interactio tool

10.00 a.m. - 10.05 a.m. | Welcome and introduction

  • Paul Soete, EESC Study Group President

10.05 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Presentations by

  • José Antonio Moreno Díaz, EESC Rapporteur on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
  • Cristian Pîrvulescu, EESC Co-rapporteur on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

10.15 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Panel 1 - General overview of the New Pact by the EU institutions

Moderator:  Paul Soete

Presentations by

  • William Sleath – Director for Citizens, Health, Migration & Security Union, Secretariat-General, European Commission
  • Jessica Däbritz – Director for Migration, Refugees and European Harmonization of the Ministry of Interior, Building and Community, German Presidency
  • Juan Fernando López Aguilar – Chair of the LIBE Committee, Member of the European Parliament - will make his intervention after the break at 12.15

Debate

11.00 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. | Panel 2 – Analytical view of think tanks and research organisations

Moderator: Cristian Pîrvulescu

Presentations by

  • Sergio Carrera – Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Programme, CEPS and Professor at Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute (EUI)
  • Olivia Sundberg Diez and Alberto-Horst Neidhardt  –  Policy Analysts, European Policy Center
  • Lena Kainz – Associate Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute

Debate

11.45 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Break

12.15 p.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Continuation of Panel 1

Moderator:  Paul Soete

  • Juan Fernando López Aguilar – Chair of the LIBE Committee, Member of the European Parliament

12.30 p.m. - 13.25 p.m. | Panel  3 – The New Pact from the perspective of social partners and civil society organisations

Moderator: José Antonio Moreno Díaz

Presentations by:

  • Robert Plummer – Senior Adviser, Social Affairs Department, BusinessEurope
  • Mercedes Miletti – Advisor, ETUC
  • Catherine Woollard – European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Director
  • Marta Gionco – Advocacy Officer, PICUM

Debate

13.25 p.m. - 13.30 p.m. | Conclusions by

  • José Antonio Moreno Díaz, EESC Rapporteur on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
  • Cristian Pîrvulescu, EESC Co-rapporteur on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

13.30 p.m. | Closing of the hearing by

  • Paul Soete, EESC Study Group President

Interpretation requested from French, English and Spanish into French, English and Spanish

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