Draft Program: Managing Migration & Supporting Refugees in a Globalised World

Conference of the Progressive Alliance and the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

12 April 2018 Hamburg

CURIO HAUS

Rothenbaumchaussee, 13

15.00                          Registration

15.30-17.30:     PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

 Interpretation: English, German, French, Italian

I: Workshop on Global Migration & Refugees

Chaired by Jeppe Kofod, MEP, S&D Group Vice-Presidents

(in alphabetical order)

Felix Braunsdorf, Global Policy & Development, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Mamadou Koulibaly, Leader of the party LIDER, Ivory Coast

Violeta Moreno-Lax, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London

Birgit Sippel, MEP, S&D Spokesperson for Civil liberties, Justice and Home affairs

Josef Weidenholzer, MEP, S&D Group Vice-President

Dima Yared, Human Rights Officer, Regional Office for Europe, UNHCR

II: Workshop on Migration and EU Relations with Africa

Chaired by Elena Valenciano, MEP, S&D Group Vice-President

(in alphabetical order)

Amira El Fadil, Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union Commission (tbc)

Cécile Kashetu Kyenge, MEP S&D Group, ACP-EU JPA Vice-President and co-author of the Report on the situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration

Rosa Malango, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda

Ranieri Sabatucci, Head of the EU Delegation to the African Union, Ethiopia

18.00 – 21.00:    TOGETHER EVENT

Interpretation: English, German, French, Italian

17.30    Registration

18.00    Opening with “TOGETHER” video presentation and introduction by the moderator

Welcome by Knut Fleckenstein, MEP, S&D Group Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs

Opening by Udo Bullmann, MEP, S&D Group President

Keynote speeches

• Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the European Commission & High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security
• Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission (invited)
• Niels Annen, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office

 POLITICAL PANEL DEBATES

• A Global approach to Refugees & Migrants

Report back from Workshop I: Jeppe Kofod, MEP, S&D Group Vice-President

(in alphabetical order)

Barbara Duden, Member of the European Committee of the Regions

Tanja Fajon, MEP, S&D Group Vice-President

Josh Osih, President of the Central African Progressive Alliance, Vice-President of the Social Democratic Front in Cameroon

Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor, European University Institute (tbc)

Discussants:

Javier Moreno Sánchez, Secretary General of the S&D Group, European Parliament

Cesare Onestini, Director, European Training Foundation (ETF)

Followed by a Q&A session

• Europe & Africa: Managing Migration

Report back from Workshop II: Elena Valenciano, MEP, S&D Group Vice-President

(in alphabetical order)

Moussa Boly, Vice-President of MPP in Burkina Faso

Rosa Malango, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda

Pier Antonio Panzeri, MEP S&D Group, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (tbc)

Sara Prestianni, ARCI Immigrazione, Italy

Martin Ziguélé, former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, President of MLPC

Followed by a Q&A session

20.30     Presentation of the new “TOGETHER Ambassadors” by Maxim Vandekerckhove, Student & TOGETHER Ambassador

Adoption of the Statement and Conclusions by Udo Bullmann, MEP, S&D Group President

21.00    Reception

Welcome by Carola Veit, President of the Hamburg Parliament, and Knut Fleckenstein, MEP, S&D Group Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs