Programme

Public hearing on "Roma participation in the local decision-making process"

Thursday, 20 March from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. online & in room VMA22

09.00 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Log on to platform / Interactio testing

09.30 a.m. - 09.40 a.m. | Welcome and opening session

• Ákos Topolánszky, President of the Permanent Group on the Inclusion of the Roma, EESC

09.40 a.m. - 10.10 a.m. | Presentation of the exhibition, ''AMARÈ DŽIIPENÀ'' (Our lives - Stories of Vilnius Roma), Vilnius museum, Lithuania

Discussion 

10.10 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Panel I - Roma participation at the local level: an overview

Moderator: Ákos Topolánszky, EESC

• Iwona Lisztwan, European Commission (DG AGRI)
• Ana Oprisan, Council of Europe

Discussion

11.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. | Break

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Panel II - Empowering the Roma community to become active citizens 

Moderator: Ákos Topolánszky, EESC

• Rafael Saavedra Rodriguez, Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Spain
• Béla Rácz, Egalipe, Hungary
• Kumar Vishwanathan, Life Together, Czechia

Discussion

12.45 p.m. - 01.00 p.m. | Closing remarks

• Ákos Topolánszky, President of the Permanent Group on the Inclusion of the Roma, EESC

Interpretation requested from English, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian into English, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian