9.30 a.m. Registration and coffee
10 a.m. Opening
- Stefano Palmieri, President, Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion (ECO), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Address by the EESC president
- Luca Jahier, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
The institutional perspective
- Stefan Lehner, Director, responsible for Revenue and Multiannual financial framework, DG BUDG, European Commission
- Isabelle Thomas, MEP, Rapporteur for the European Parliament resolution on the next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020, European Parliament
- Jan Olbrycht, MEP, Rapporteur for the European Parliament resolution on the next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020, European Parliament
- Jan Gregor, reporting Member for the Briefing Paper "Future of EU finances: reforming how the EU budget operates", European Court of Auditors (ECA)
Views of think tanks and researchers
- Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
- Joost van Iersel, Senior Advisor, European Policy Centre (EPC) and former president of the ECO section, EESC
- Kevin Körner, Analyst, European Policy Research, Deutsche Bank Research
The positions of civil society stakeholders
- Janica Ylikarjula, Chair of the MFF Taskforce, BusinessEurope
- Thiébaut Weber, Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
- Conny Reuter, Secretary General, Solidar
General Debate
Comments on the Discussion
- Petr Zahradnik, co-rapporteur for the EESC opinion on the reflection paper on the future of EU finances, and rapporteur for the EESC opinion on an EU Budget focused on real results
Summary and conclusions
- Javier Doz Orrit, rapporteur for the EESC opinion on the Multiannual Financial Framework post 2020
1 p.m. End of the conference
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