Pavel Trantina, President of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC)
2:45 – 4 p.m.
Session 1 Discussion on the outcomes of the European Migration Forum of 6-7 April 2016
2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Moderator: Vladimíra Drbalová, Vice-President of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO)
Presentations by:
Irini Pari, Member of the Bureau of the European Migration Forum
Michele LeVoy, Director of PICUM (Platform for International cooperation on undocumented migrants) and Rapporteur of Forum's workshop on Low and medium skilled migration
3.15 – 4 p.m.
Discussion with the LMO members
4 – 4.15 p.m.
Coffee break
4.15 – 5:55 p.m.
Session 2 Discussion on current Commission's and EESC's work on legal migration, including the revision of the Blue CardDirective
4.15 – 5 p.m.
Moderator: Vladimíra Drbalová, Vice-President of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO)
Presentations by:
Lieven Brouwers, Policy officer, Unit on Legal Migration and Integration, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME), European Commission
Anne Demelenne, Member of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship
Wido Geis, Senior Economist, Cologne Institute for Economic Research and expert on the SOC/539 opinion "Towards a coherent EU labour migration policy" (in preparation)
5 – 5:55 p.m.
Discussion with the LMO members
5.55 – 6 p.m.
Conclusions of the meeting
Vladimíra Drbalová, Vice-President of the Labour Market Observatory (LMO), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
