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Venue: The EGG, Rue Bara 175, 1070 Brussels (link)
Friday, November 8 |
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13:00 – 15:30 |
Party Leaders' Meeting (ON INVITATION ONLY) |
16:00 – 19:00 |
Opening of the Council Welcome speeches Speakers: Bruno De Lille, Secretary of State of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Mobility, the Civil Service, Equal Opportunities and Administrative Simplification, Groen (Belgium) Christos Doulkeridis: Secretary of State of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Housing, Firefighting and Emergency Medical Assistance, Ecolo (Belgium) Saraswati Matthieu, EGP Committee member Presentation of the contenders for the Green Primary by Rogier Elshout Debate on the Green vision and the Green political agenda for Europe Keynote speech by Reinhard Bütikofer MEP, EGP Co-Chair followed by a debate with the contenders. |
19:00 – 20:00 |
Plenary Session for Council Delegates |
19:30 |
Dinner buffet starts (continuous) |
20:00 – 21:30 |
Parallel sessions
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Saturday, November 9 |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary Session: Discussion on Resolutions (only for Delegates) |
10:00 – 12:00 |
Plenary Session by the Green Group in the European Parliament |
12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
13:00 |
Deadline for tabling Amendments to Draft Emergency Resolutions |
Six parallel debates will be organised with the civil society on our Manifesto. Key speakers from NGO / big and small business / civil society / Green MEPs and MPs will be invited. |
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13:00 – 15:00 |
Parallel Plenary Debates A-B-C:
Moderator: Reinhard Bütikofer, EGP Co-Chair, MEP, Manifesto Rapporteur
Speakers: Rudi Anschober, Upper Austrian Environmental Minister; Conny Reuter, Secretary General SOLIDAR; Klaus Stähle, Board member German Federation of the Green Industry
Moderator: Bart Staes, MEP
Speakers: Steve Emmott, EGP Committee member, Manifesto Rapporteur; Benedikt Härlin, Foundation on Future Farming (Germany); Jean Paul Judson, Manager Public Affairs, European Seeds Association
Moderator: Alejandro Sánchez Pérez, Director EQUO Foundation (Spain)
Speakers: Marta Bobichon Neves, Manifesto Rapporteur; Maria Ferm, MP Miljöpartiet de Gröna (Sweden); Tineke Strik, Senator GroenLinks (Netherlands)
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15:00 |
Break
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15:30 – 17:30 |
Parallel Plenary Debates D-E-F:
Moderator: Ulrike Lunacek, MEP
Speakers: Nadia Calviño, Deputy Director General DG Internal Market & Services, European Commission; Sven Giegold, MEP; Philippe Lamberts, MEP, Manifesto Rapporteur
Moderator: Bas Eickhout, MEP
Speakers: Peter Eriksson, MP Miljöpartiet de gröna (Sweden), Manifesto Rapporteur; Pieter De Pous, Policy Director, European Environmental Bureau; Wendel Trio, Director, Climate Action Network Europe
Moderator: Saraswati Matthieu, EGP Committee member
Speakers: Monica Bota, Policy Advisor, FNV Trade Union Federation (Netherlands); Inés López-Dóriga González, Red EQUO Joven (Spain); Giuseppe Porcaro, Secretary General, European Youth Forum,Reinhard Bütikofer, EGP Co-Chair, MEP, Manifesto Rapporteur |
17:30 |
Break |
18:00 – 19:00 | Joint Plenary Session A+B+C+D+E+F Reporting back from the parallel plenary debates |
19:00 |
Break |
19:15 – 21:00 |
Parallel sessions:
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20:30 |
Dinner at the Riverside
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22:30 |
Party in the Studio
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Sunday, November 10 |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary session: |
10:00 – 11:45 |
Voting Session:
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Launch of the Green Primary |
13:00 |
Closing of the 19th European Green Party Council |
14.00 -16.30 |
Green Successes Walk organised by Ecolo and Groen The Green successes tour will start at 14:00 at the Pullman Hotel (Gare Midi). It will be by tram and on foot (tram tickets are provided). We will walk approximately 2 kilometers through Molenbeek, where we will see examples of Green successes. Assistants of Brussels Green minister Evelyne Huytebroeck (Ecolo) and Brussels minister Bruno De Lille (Groen) will tell us more about the achievements of both Green parties here in Brussels. We will end our tour around 16:30. We will have space for 25 people on this tour, so be fast, and register at the registration desk. |