Programme

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Completing the Single Market to Ensure EU's Strategic Competitiveness

Host of the event: Isabel YGLESIAS, EESC Employers' Group Member and Head of EU Affairs at CEOE

09h30 - 10h10 Welcoming remarks

  • Salvador NAVARRO, President of CEV and Vice-president of CEOE
  • Stefano MALLIA, President of the Employers’ Group, EESC
  • Javier FERRER, Vice-president of the Spanish Economic and Social Council
  • Pascual NAVARRO, State Secretary for the European Union (video message)
  • Felipe Javier CARRASCO, regional Vice-Minister for Industry, Trade and Consumers, Valencia Regional Government

10h10 - 11h10 Keynote speech

“Strategic independence as a response to systemic fragility: new academic developments”

  • Antonio CABRALES GOITIA, Professor for Economics at the University Carlos III and King Jaume I Award for Economics
  • Introduced by Ricardo MIRALLES, Director of Economics and Analysis of the CEV

Q&A

11h10 – 11h40 Coffee break

11h40 – 12h40 Panel

"Navigating the Single Market: Valencian Companies' Path to Success"

  • Juan SALVADOR TORRES, Secretary General of the Valencian Association of Farmers (AVA-ASAJA)
  • Juan Vicente BONO, President of the Spanish Association Manufacturers of Machinery and Technology for the Ceramic Industry (ASEBEC)
  • Federico FUSTER, President of the Hotel and Tourism Business Association of the Valencian Region (HOSBEC)
  • Marian CANO, President of the Valencian Association of Footwear Entrepreneurs (AVECAL)
  • Moderated by Sandra PARTHIE, President of the EESC Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption (INT)

Q&A

12h40 – 13h00 Concluding remarks

  • Maria-Helena DE FELIPE, EESC Employers' Group Member
  • Felipe MEDINA, EESC Employers' Group Member