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Public meeting

Mairie de Montreuil - Montreuil

Thursday 9 - Friday 10 October 2008

Hôtel de Ville de Montreuil - Place Jean Jaurès

93105 Montreuil Cedex - France

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PROGRAMME

 
 

THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 2008

17:00-17:20

Opening of the meeting

 
  • Mrs Monica FRASSONI, Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
  • Mrs Dominique VOYNET, Senator and Mayor of Montreuil
  • Mr Claude BARTELONE, President of the General Council of  la Seine-Saint-Denis
 

17:20-20:30

EU policy:  human rights or economic cynicism

 

(interpretation in French, English, German, Italian)

Chair and introduction: Mr Daniel COHN-BENDIT, Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group in the  European Parliament

Speakers:

  • Mr Jean-Pierre JOUYET, French Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Mrs Hélène FLAUTRE, Chair of Human Rights Sub-Committee in the European Parliament
  • Mrs Rebecca HARMS, Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Temporary Committee of Climate Change
  • Mrs Marie-Anne ISLER BEGUIN, Chair of the South Caucasus Delegation in the European Parliament

 Debate/question time

 
 

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 2008

 

10:00-13:30

State of affairs: EU Commission Energy/Climate package

 

(interpretation in French, English, German, Italian)

Chair and introduction: Mr Alain LIPIETZ, Chair of the Delegation for the relations with the countries of the Andean Community

Speakers:

  • Mrs Nathalie KOSCIUSKO-MORIZET, Secretary of State for Ecology, France
  • Mrs Kathalijne BUITENWEG, Member of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
  • Mr Yannick JADOT, Former Greenpeace Campaign Director, France
  • Mrs Michèle RIVASI, Founder of CRIIRAD, Vice-President of Drôme General Council

Debate/question time

15:00-16:30

Food security and GMOs

 

(interpretation in French, English, German, Italian)

Chair and introduction:  Mr Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE ZU BARINGDORF, Vice-Chair of the Agriculture Committee in the European Parliament

Speakers:

  • Mrs Marie-Hélène AUBERT, Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
  • Mr Jean-Paul BESSET, Former Editor in Chief of Politis
  • Mr José BOVE, Farming Trade Unionist from "ConfédérationPaysanne" and Via Campesina

Debate/question time 

16:30-18:30

Round Table - Capitalism: first socio-ecological crisis

 

(interpretation in French, English, German, Italian)

Chair and introduction: Mr Alain LIPIETZ, Chair of the Delegation for the relations with the countries of the Andean Community

Speakers:

  • Mr Pierre JONCKHEER, Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
  • Mr Pascal CANFIN, acting Director General and journalist at "Alternatives Economiques"
  • Mr Jérôme GLEIZES, Professor of Economics at Paris XIII University, Villetaneuse
  • Mr Stéphane ROZES, Director General of CSA (French political polling organisation) and Professor at Sciences-Po

Debate/question time

A press conference with Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Monica Frassoni, co-Presidents of the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and Philippe Lamberts, spokesperson of the European Green Party,  will be held in the Montreuil's town hall on Friday 10 October at 13:30.


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