MORNING SESSION –Macro-regional recovery and resilience initiatives within the EU
10:00 Opening remarks by the REX President Dimitris DIMITRIADIS
10:05 Keynote speech by the ECO President Stefano PALMIERI
10:20Macro-regional recovery and resilience initiative for the Adriatic and Ionian
Staša MESEC, Lead Project Partner, EUSAIR Facility Point
10:30 Q&A session with participants
11:00 Macro-regional recovery and resilience initiative for the Baltic Sea Region
Simon STERMAN, Desk Officer, Council of the Baltic Sea States &Regional Cooperation in the Baltic Sea RegionDivision E21, Northern Europe
11:10 Q&A session with participants
11:40Macro-regional recovery and resilience initiative for the Alpine Region
Christiane BARRET, General delegate of the French EUSALP Presidency
Maria Grazia PEDRANA, Coordinator of the EUSALP action groups, AlpGov II project leader, Lombardy Region
11:50 Q&A session with participants
12:20 Macro-regional recovery and resilience initiative for the Danube Region
Michal BLAŠKO, EUSDR Presidency, National Coordinator Slovak Republic,
12:35The role of the macro-regional strategies in the resilience of the European economy
Jean-Pierre HALKIN, Head of Unit, European Commission (REGIO.DDG.D.1 Macro-regions, Transnational/Interregional/External Cooperation, Enlargement
12:35 Q&A session with participants
13:00 Lunch break
AFTERNOON SESSION - A new macro-regional strategy for the Mediterranean region – encompassing the countries of the Southern Neighbourhood
14:30 Introduction by Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS, President of the Euromed Follow-Up Committee
14:35 Keynote speech by Dimitris DIMITRIADIS, REX President and Rapporteur ECO/332 - A macro-regional strategy in the Mediterranean
14:43 Keynote speech Ambassador Vesselin VALKANOV, Head of the Regional Cooperation Council in Brussels
14:50 Keynote speech by Klara DOBREV, Vice-President of the European Parliament (Relations with the EESC, replacing the President on Neighbourhood Policy)
15:00 Q&A session with participants and Panayotis PAPANASTASSIOU, Counsellor for Economic & Commercial Affairs, Permanent Representation of Greece, and with Jonathan ENGERER, First Secretary for Mashreq/Maghreb & Middle East/Gulf, Permanent Representation of Malta
16:45 Closing remarks by Stefano PALMIERI, President of the ECO Section, and Dimitris DIMITRIADIS, President of the REX Section
