Warsaw 2020 - Programme

Tuesday, 27 October - ONLINE

Delegates' introduction to the Council (technical)

Tuesday, 10 November - ONLINE

Delegates' meeting (political)

Tuesday, 24 November & Thursday, 26 November - ONLINE

Trainings for delegates (technical)

Wednesday, 2 December - ONLINE

17:00 - 19:30   Compromise Amendments Sessions I / II

CAS 1 - chaired by Mélanie and supported by Janik and Wouter, will deal with:

• Rule of Law (28 Amendments)
• Trans Rights (15 AMs)
• Right to Protest (19 AMs)
   

CAS 2 - chaired by Oras and supported by Alexandra, will deal with:

• Stop Turow coal mine (7 AMs)
• Greening EaP (1 AM)
• Sustainable Tourism (25 AMs)
• Rivers (14 AMs)

19:30 - 20:30   Test – voting platform

Thursday, 3 December - ONLINE

17:00 - 19:30   Compromise Amendments Sessions III / IV (emergency resolutions)

CAS 3 will deal with unfinished business of CAS 1 (Rule of Law, Trans Rights and Right to Protest)

CAS 4 will deal with unfinished business of CAS 2 (Rivers, Stop Turów and Sustainable Tourism) and with amendments to the emergency resolution

Friday, 4 December - ONLINE

17:00 - 19:30   Compromise Amendments Sessions V 

CAS 5 will deal with the compromise amendments on the emergency resolution

17:00 - 19:30   Compromise Amendments Sessions VI - cancelled (no amendments)

17:30 - 19:30   Finance meeting - CAS on finances 

Explanation and discussion about the draft revised budget 2020, the draft budget 2021 and the draft membership fees 2021.

Saturday, 5 December - ONLINE

9:00 - 10:00   Compromise Amendments Sessions VII

Saturday, 5 December    -   Open Program of the Council  -  ONLINE

The OPEN PROGRAM during the Council where everyone is welcome to register as an online participant.

In a unique online conference setting, all the registered participants will be able to take an active part in interactive workshops, virtual exhibitions, panels and get to know Greens from all around Europe and beyond. Participants will be able to re-visit the Conference site after the event and access all the materials used for the Conference. For those who will not attend the full program, the main plenary sessions, including panels will be live-streamed on our social media platforms. Recordings of the streams will be available on our website after the event.

Exhibitions

Participants of the online Council will have the chance to get to know EGP’s partners and TILT! by visiting their virtual exhibition stands. The stands will be available for registered participants to visit from the moment they join the platform. (Read more)

Moderator

Francesca Vanthielen will moderate this event. She is a Belgian journalist and news anchor, working for the Business TV channel Kanaal Z. (Read more)

10:00 – 11:00   Press conference (press only)

10:00 - 11:15    Network Meetings

Politics in time of corona (delegates only - read more)

Mediterranean Network (members only)

Polish Young Greens and the Federation of Young European Greens (Read more)

European Network of Green Seniors: Why Age-friendly Cities are so important for the future? (Read more)

Warsaw on the path to climate neutrality (Read more)

11:15 - 11:30   Break

 11:30 - 12:15  Opening of the Council (Read more)

Speakers: 

• Thomas Waitz, Co-chair, European Greens 
• Małgorzata Tracz, Co-chair of the Polish Greens 
• Wojciech Kubalewski, Co-chair of the Polish Greens 
• Urszula Zielińska, Member of Parliament, Polish Greens
• Adam Bodnar, Polish Commissioner for Human Rights

 12:15 - 13:00   Meet the Polish Greens (Read more)

Speakers: 

• Sylwia Spurek, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group, Poland
• Tomasz Anisko, Member of the Parliament, Polish Greens
• Urszula Zielińska, Member of the Parliament, Polish Greens
• Radoslaw Gawlik, Polish Greens Co-founder and member
• Przemyslaw Slowik, Municipial councillor of Szczecin, Poland
• Dorota Grzeszczak, Local councillor, Szprotawa
• Laura Kwoczała, Activist, board member & spokesperson of Polish Young Greens
• Wiktor Miazek, Chairperson of Polish Young Greens

13:00 - 14:30   Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00  Parallel sessions

These sessions will be organized both as interactive webinars and live sessions in Warsaw and will address a variety of relevant issues from the impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector through LGBTI+ rights around Europe to addressing how the future of work might look like. The parallel sessions are open for all registered participants. Recordings of the sessions will be available on EGP's website after the Council.

Cultural Sector after COVID (Read more)

Ideas exchange - Future of work: what can Greens offer workers? (Read more)

Words are not enough - Action now! Stop "LGBTI-free zones" (Read more)

Local Councillors Network: Cities and Climate emergencies (Read more)

EU Funds for Socio-Ecological Transition: How to shape them? How to use them? (Read more)

Animal Transport (Read more)

16:00 –16:30   Break

 16:30 - 18:00 Plenary Session: Towards a Just Transition: How to Ensure Climate Neutrality and Social Justice? (Read more)

Speakers:

• Bas Eickhout, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group, Netherlands
• Simona Fabiani, Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Policies for the climate and the environment
• Jerzy Hubka (video message), Polish miner and trade unionist 
• Zakia Khattabi, Minister of Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal, Belgium
• Miłosława Stępień, Social and climate activist, chair of the association Akcja Konin and member of the Polish Greens 

Moderator: Jean Lambert, Committee Member, European Greens

18:00 –18:30   Break

  18:30 - 20:00 Plenary Session: Challenges and Pathways In Europe's Rule of Law Crisis (Read more)

Speakers:

• Alma Zadić (video message), Minister of Justice, Austria
• Laurent Pech (video message), Professor of European Law and Head of the Law and Politics Department at Middlesex University London
• Sylwia Spurek, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group, Poland
• Benedek Jávor, Head of Representation of Budapest to the EU, Hungary 
• Matthew Caruana Galizia, Journalist, Malta
• Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA Group, France
• Irina Sukhy (video message), Spokesperson of the Belarusian Green Party

Moderator: Evelyne Huytebroeck, Co-chair, European Greens 

20:00 - 20:15  Break

20:15 - 21:00   Concert by Sutari band and artwork by Cecylia Malik (Read more)

Sunday, 6 December - ONLINE

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

SpotMe

9:30 – 10:00   Presentation on Finances

10:00 – 10:15   Presentations and Q&A with candidates for representatives of the member parties to the General Assembly of the Green European Foundation (GEF) (Read more)

10:15 – 10:30   Changing to the voting platform

10:30 - 11:00   Break

11:00 – 11:15  Test vote, quorum check

Voting Platform - Beernink Productions

Voting Platform - Beernink Productions

13:30 - 14:00   Closing of the 32nd Council (Read more)

Speaker: Mar Garcia, Secretary General, European Greens

Voting Platform - Beernink Productions

In addition to the main program:

Exhibitions of the partners of European Greens will be available on SpotMe at all times.

Ad-hoc meetings between participants can be organized on-demand.