European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
Remote event via Interactio, online platform -
Thursday, 15 September 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
09:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Log on to platform / Interactio testing
10:00 a.m. - 10:05 a.m. | Introduction
- Lech Pilawski, LMO President
10:05 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. | Panel I – Setting the scene
Moderator – Kinga Joó, LMO member
- Laurenţiu Plosceanu, President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs, and Citizenship, EESC: opening words
- Marina Royo de Blas, Unit D.1 "Rural areas and networks" and Matyas Szabo, Unit B.3 "Social sustainability", DG AGRI, European Commission
- Drew Gardiner, Employment Policy Specialist, ILO
- Representative of OECD (tbc)
10:55 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. | Q & A
11:20 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. | Break
11:35 a.m. - 13:00 a.m. | Panel II – Perspectives from the wider civil society
Moderator: Lech Pilawski, LMO President (tbc)
- Marta Lozano Molano, President, WAZO COOP, Spain
- Sandra Bertholet, Vice-president, RURAL TOUR - European Federation of Rural Tourism (tbc)
- Florian Marin, EESC member (Group II) and President of Federation of Free Trade Union in Romania
- Juliana Wahlgren, Director, European Anti-Poverty Network
- Marie Christine Schönborn, President, Young Friends of the Countryside (YFCS) (tbc)
12:30 a.m. - 12:55 a.m. | Q & A
12:55 a.m. - 13:00 a.m. | Conclusions of the debate by the moderator
13.00 p.m. - 14.30 p.m. | Lunch break
14:30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. | Panel III: Social partners' perspective
Moderator: Carlos Manuel Trindade, LMO Vice-president
- Patricia Andriot, Vice-President, RTES (Social Economy Local Authority Network), France (tbc)
- Lena-Liisa Tengblad, CEO, Gröna Arbetsgivare, and Vice-President, GEOPA-COPA
- Ignacio Doreste, Senior advisor, Employment and labour market, ETUC
- Arnd Spahn, Political Secretary for the Agriculture Sector, European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT)
- Friedrich Trosse, SME United
15:15 p.m. - 15:45 p.m. | Q & A
15:45 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. | Conclusions of the debate by the moderator
Participants can speak English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese and listen to English, French, German, Italian and Polish.