European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
Public hearing on “Enhancing labour mobility to support economic recovery"
Remote event via Interactio, online platform - Wednesday, 8 June 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Agenda
09.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Testing connections
10.00 a.m. - 10.40 a.m. | Panel I - The state of play at EU level
Moderator: Milena Angelova, President of study group SOC/719 - Enhancing labour mobility to support economic recovery
- Philip von Brockdorff, EESC rapporteur: presentation of the opinion
- Radan Kanev MEP (EPP, BG), rapporteur for the European Parliament on the resolution on impacts of EU rules on the free movements of workers and services: intra-EU labour mobility as a tool to match labour market needs and skills (2020/2007(INI)).
- Cosmin Boiangiu, ELA executive director
10.40 a.m. - 11.10 a.m. | Questions & Answers
11.10 a.m. - 11.40 a.m. | Panel II - Research on Labour Mobility
Moderator: Philip von Brockdorff, Rapporteur of study group SOC/719 - Enhancing labour mobility to support economic recovery
- Dr. Wido Geis-Thöne, Senior Economist for Family Policy and Migration Issues, IW Köln (German Economic Institute)
- Dr. Mehtap Akgüç, Senior Researcher ETUI
- Katharina Wiese, Policy Officer for Economic Transition and Gender Equality at the European Environmental Bureau
11.40 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. | Questions & Answers
12.00 p.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Panel III - Perspectives from the social partners and the wider civil society
Moderator: Arnaud Schwartz, Group III member of the study group
- Claes-Mikael Ståhl, ETUC Deputy General Secretary
- Maja Kluger Dionigi, Danish Employers
- Dr. Raluca Radescu, European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI)
12.30 p.m. - 12.50 a.m. | Questions & Answers
12.50 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Conclusions of the debate by the moderator
Interpretation from French, English, Maltese, Polish & Bulgarian into French, English & Polish