08:30 | Registration
09:00 | Opening
- Martin Schulz – President of the European Parliament (tbc)
09:10 | Welcome and panel | Setting the context
- Pavel Trantina, President (tbc) of the EESC Section for Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC)
- Sérgio Aires, EAPN President
- Derek Holliday, Poverty Alliance/EAPN UK: Experience from the ground of welfare reform
- Tanya Cox, Beyond 2015 Steering Group Co-chair: From Europe 2020 to Post -2015 Sustainable Development Goals
10:00 | Round table | Can the EU deliver progress on poverty in the European semester / Europe 2020?
Chair: Barbara Helfferich, EAPN Director
- Paul Ginnell/EAPN Ireland and Chair of EAPN EU Inclusion Strategies Group: Presentation of EAPN 2015 NRP and European Semester Assessment
- Tom Dominique, Chair of the Social Protection Committee
- Outi Slotboom, European Commission DG ECFIN
- Sergio Prieto, MEP (S+D/Spain) rapporteur on EMPL opinion on European Semester
11:00 | Discussion with Audience
11:30 | Coffee break
11:45 | Round table | How can the EU increase participation and legitimacy of the European Semester?
Chair: Sérgio Aires, EAPN President
- Graciela Malgesini/EAPN Spain: Promising practice: Structured dialogue with NGOs
- Johanna László/EAPN Hungary/Croatia: Raising awareness on the Semester
- Raquel Lucas, Cabinet of Commissioner Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue: Getting ownership, strengthening social and civil dialogue
- Luca Visentini, General Secretary, ETUC: How to increase accountability and legitimacy of the European Semester (tbc)