‘Brussels Days / Day II’

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY :

9.30 - 10.30 MIGRATORY CHALLENGES
DIMITRIS AVRAMOPOULOS, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Greece
PHILIPPE DOUSTE BLAZY, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-2007), Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Responsible for sources of innovative financing for development since 2008, France
PLANTU, Cartoonist, President of Cartooning for peace, France
JEAN ROUAUD, Writer, Prix Goncourt for "les Champs d'honneur", France

10.30 - 11.15 PLANTU AND CARTOONING FOR PEACE "EUROPE AT ALL COSTS"
 
10.00 - 11.15 ECONOMY AT A STANDSTILL FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS
PHILIPPE AGHION, Economist, Professor at the Collège de France, France
BRUNO COLMANT, Economist, Belgium
HENRY HERMAND, President of HHD, co-founder of 1, France
EDOUARD TETREAU, Essayist, columnist, France

11.30 - 13.00 CULTURE AS A RESISTANCE
PAUL DUJARDIN, CEO of BOZAR, Belgium
JOACHIM LAFOSSE, Film-maker, director, Belgium
JEAN-MICHEL RIBES, Director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point, France
LUC VAN DEN BRANDE, President of the VRT, Belgium
CECILIA WIKSTROM, European deputy, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Sweden

WHICH COMMERCIAL POLICY FOR EUROPE?
PASCAL LAMY, Director of the WTO (2005-2013), France
CECILIA MALMSTROM, European Commissioner for Trade, Sweden
DIDIER REYNDERS, Vice-Prime Minister, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs, Belgium *
 
14.00 - 15.30 WHAT LEADERSHIP FOR EUROPE?
MICHEL ROCARD, Prime Minister (1988-1991), French ambassador responsible for international negotiations, France
MARTIN SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament, Germany
WALTER VELTRONI, Vice-President of the Council of Ministers (1996-1998), Mayor of Rome (2001-2008), Italy

16.00 - 17.15 OVER THE WALLS, DIE FOR EUROPE?
SIA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU, Minister of Education, Greece
ISABELLE DURANT, MP, president of the Spinelli Group, Belgium
FRANCOIS GEMENNE, Researcher at Sciences Po and the ULG, Belgium
ANGELIQUE KOUROUNIS, correspondent in Greece for the RTBF, RFI, le Monde, Greece
Discussion organised by the Spinelli group 

WHEN THE ARTS CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS
GIORGIO DE FINIS, Founder of the Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere in Rome, Italy
THOMAS KILPPER, creator of the "A Lighthouse for Lampedusa" project, Germany
RENZO MARTENS, Artistic Director of the Institute for Human Activities, Belgium
BOZAR Agora, with Culture Action Europe and Goethe Institute

20.00 - 21.00 Master Class EQUALITY MAKES US STRONGER
RICHARD WILKINSON, Social Epidemiologist, United Kingdom
Live streaming on Thursday at 20:00 here

* to be confirmed