Social dialogue within the green transition
9.00 – 9.10 | Welcome address
- Oliver RÖPKE, President of the EESC Workers' Group
9.10 – 9.20 | Opening/keynote speech
- Marian JUREČKA, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
9.20 – 10.30 | Priorities and programme of the Czech EU Presidency – midterm evaluation
- Mikuláš BEK, Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Josef STŘEDULA, President of ČMKOS
- Bohumír DUFEK, President of ASO ČR
Q+A
10.30 -10.45 | Break
10.45 – 12.30 | Panel discussion: " Green deal – Challenges, gaps, obstacles. What is Europe trying to achieve and what are our expectations? "
Moderated by Lucie STUDNIČNÁ, EESC Workers' Group Vice-President
Setting the scene: Agnieszka KULESA, CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research Vice-President
- Mikuláš PEKSA, Member of the European Parliament
- Ludovic VOET, ETUC Confederal Secretary
- Oliver RÖPKE, President of the EESC Workers' Group
Q+A
12.30 – 14.00 | Break
14.00 – 16.00 | Panel discussion: "Social dialogue within the green transition"
Moderated by Oliver RÖPKE, President of the EESC Workers' Group
- Nicolas SCHMIT, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
- Dana ROUČKOVÁ, Deputy Minister for Legislation, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Radka SOKOLOVÁ, Vice-President of ČMKOS
- Jan WIESNER, President of KZPS ČR
- Dagmar ŽITNÍKOVÁ, President of the Healthcare and social care union of the Czech Republic
Q+A
16.00 - 17.20 | Gr II internal debate
To reflect on what we had listened and to discuss how to feed this into:
- activities of our Group/category
- possible forthcoming referrals
- activities of forthcoming Swedish and Spanish EU presidencies
17.20 - 17.30 | Concluding remarks
by Oliver RÖPKE, President of the EESC Workers' Group