Antwerp Council 2018 - Programme

09:00   Registration opens

12:00 – 13:30   Parallel sessions

 Room

• Compromise amendments session I

• Compromise amendments session II

• Treasurer's meeting

• LGBT+

• Mobilising the vote of Green-Minded Internationals (by Global Greens)

13:00 –14:00   Sandwich lunch                                                                                                                                                               

Sommézaal

14:00 - 14:15   Opening of the Council

Van Gesselzaal     

• Meyrem Almaci, chair of Groen, Member of Parliament, Belgium
• Reinhard Bütikofer, co-chair of the European Green Party, MEP, Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Germany                                 

14:15 - 16:00   Plenary session: Future of Europe (read more)

Van Gesselzaal                                                              

Moderator: Monica Frassoni, co-chair of the European Green Party, Belgium

Speakers:  

• Franklin Dehousse, professor of international law at the University of Liège, Belgium, and former judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Rui Tavares, historian, former MEP, co-founder of Livre, Portugal
• Erzsébet Schmuck, Member of Parliament, Vice-chair of Politics Can Be Different (LMP) Parliamentary Group, Hungary 
• Bas Eickhout, MEP, Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Netherlands
• Petra de Sutter, Member of the Senate, Belgium  

16:00 –16:30   Coffee break

Sommézaal

16:30 - 18:00   Parallel sessions

• Compromise amendments session III

• Compromise amendments session IV

• All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2015-2020

• Empowering Greens: Training and Capacity Building Ahead of the 2019 European Parliament Elections (organised by the Green European Foundation)

• Digital & Grassroots Campaigning workshop

• A fair transition away from coal (organised by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)

18:00-18:30 Photo action "Antwerp can do it/Antwerpen kan dat"

Nieuwstad, Antwerp (at 18:00 volunteers will guide the participants from Elzenveld to the action)

18:30 - 19:30  Dinner

Address: Horta Art Nouveau Zaal, Hopland 2, 2000 Antwerp (volunteers will show you the way)

19:30 - 21:30   Plenary session: Green Mayors transforming cities throughout Europe (read more)

Address: Horta Art Nouveau Zaal, Hopland 2, 2000 Antwerp 

Moderator: Evelyne Huytebroeck, EGP committee member, Brussels Member of Parliament, Belgium

Speakers:

• Wouter Van Besien, candidate for mayor of Antwerp, Belgium 
• Maria Vassilakou, deputy mayor of Vienna, Austria
• Lot van Hooijdonk, deputy mayor of Utrecht, the Netherlands

8:30 - 9:30  Discussion on resolutions

Auditorium

9:30 - 9:45  Presentation of candidates for the 9th Committee member

Auditorium

9:45 - 10:00  Presentation of Tilt! the ChangeMaking Network

Auditorium

Thomas Waitz and Evelyne Huytebroeck will take you on the Tilt journey, explaining what it is, how it works, and most importantly how you can join!

10:00 –10:30   Coffee break

Sommézaal / Van Gesselzaal

10:30 - 11:30 Plenary Session: Meet Groen (read more)

Auditorium

Speakers: 

• Elke Decruynaere, local councillor in Ghent, Belgium
• Jonas Dutordoir, Groen spokesperson and head of communication, Belgium
• Saraswati Matthieu, Ghent councillor, secretary of the Groen-Ecolo group in Brussels Parliament, Belgium
• Bart Staes, MEP, Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Belgium
• Arnaud Verstraete, Member of Brussels Parliament, Belgium

11:30 - 13:00 Plenary session: Social Europe (read more)

Auditorium

Moderator: Kim van Sparrentak, former co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens, the Netherlands

13:00 - 14:00   Lunch break

Van Gesselzaal

14:00 - 15:30   Parallel sessions

 Room

• Compromise amendments session V (rest of Future of Europe, Refugees and emergency resolution: On the current political situation in Israel/Palestine)

• Compromise amendments session VI (emergency resolutions: After Trump breaks with the Iran deal, the EU must break with the US Iran policy + Nuclear phase out in Belgium without further delay)

• Campaign: Tilt! and Action days

• Universal Basic Income - a Green answer to the future challenges of the labour market? (organised by the Green European Foundation)

• Gender equality and campaigning (by the Gender Network)

• How to inspire more elderly to vote Green in the EU elections (by European Network of Green Seniors)

• Accessibility for everyone

15:30 - 16:00   Coffee break

Sommézaal / Van Gesselzaal

16:00 - 17:30  Plenary: Plastic pollution (read more)

Auditorium

Moderator: Thomas Waitz, EGP committee member, MEP, Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Austria 

Speakers:

• Delphine Lévi Alvarès, European coordinator of the Break Free From Plastic movement
• Kristy-Barbara Lange, deputy managing director, European Bioplastics Association, Germany
• Marco Affronte, MEP, Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Italy

17:30 - 18:00   Coffee break

Sommézaal / Van Gessel

18:00 - 19:30   Parallel sessions

• Compromise amendments session VII
  

• Balkan Network

• Countering the far right's narrative (organised by the Federation of Young European Greens)

• Achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050: the Green climate and energy Vision Scenario (organised by Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)

• Digitizing the party - campaigning and party infrastructure

• Foreign Affairs working group

20:00 Dinner & party

Address: Horta Art Nouveau Zaal, Hopland 2, 2000 Antwerp 

Welcome to Claude Brouir

Sunday, 20 May

Auditorium

8:30 - 9:00   Membership relations and reporting (update for delegates only)

9:00 - 9:30   Presentation of finances

• Accounts and report 2017
• Revised budget 2018

9:30 - 9:45   Presentations  

• Candidates to the Amendments Committee
  

9:45 - 10:00 Coffee Break

Sommézaal

10:00 - 12:30   Voting session                                                       

12:30 Closing remarks

Mar Garcia, EGP secretary general, Spain (read more)

28th EGP Council ends