European Economic
and Social Committee
Agenda
Simultaneous interpretation requested from French, English, German, Greek, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese and Romanian into French and English
09.00 - 09.30 a.m. | Registration
09.30 - 09.45 a.m. | Welcome and opening session
- Pavel Trantina, President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
09.45 - 11.15 a.m. | Panel 1 and debate Preventing the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance
Moderator: Irini Pari, Member of the EESC
Panellists:
- Jennifer Allsopp, PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
- Mikael Lindholm, Danish activist – testimony
- Paula Schmid Porras, Researcher and Lawyer, representing PROEMAID
- Agnieszka Sternik, Policy Officer, Unit C1 - Irregular Migration and Return Policy, DG HOME, European Commission
11.15 - 11.30 a.m. | Coffee break
11.30 a.m. - 12.50 p.m. | Panel 2 and debate Humanitarian admission
Moderator: Cristian Pîrvulescu, EESC member
Panellists:
- Aleksander Romanovic, Policy Officer, Unit C3 - Asylum, DG HOME, European Commission
- Petra Hueck, Head of Office, ICMC Europe
- Céline Francis, Liaison officer, European Federation of the Community of Sant’Egidio
- Sabrina Le Noach, Migration Officer, Red Cross EU office
12.50 - 01.00 p.m. | Concluding remarks
- Cristian Pîrvulescu, President of the Permanent Study Group on Immigration and Integration (IMI) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)