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

 


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