PRACTICAL DETAILS FOR MEDIA 

• No advance registration is required for journalists with European Commission accreditation.  Journalists who are not European Commission accredited should send their name, the name of their publication/broadcaster and their date of birth to marijana.sostaric@europarl.europa.eu by the evening of Wednesday April 1st and their security badges for the European Parliament will be available at the Press Entrance of the European Parliament the next day.
• There will be a press desk on just outside the Hemicycle from 13.00 on Thursday until 18.30 on Friday with staff to help you with interview requests, the latest programme and any other matters where we could be of assistance.
• For the opening session with President Bill Clinton all media – including TV cameras – must be in the Hemicycle media gallery on the 4^th floor.
• For contacts for speakers contact Julian Scola or Tony Robinson, or the press desk.  

PROGRAMME AND SPEAKERS

Below is the latest draft programme and speakers confirmed to date.

 

THURSDAY, 2 APRIL 2009

 

15.00-16.00          Plenary session: Opening event (Hemicycle)

Bill Clinton, President of the USA, Chair of the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation, USA

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the PES, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Denmark

Josep Borrell, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Global Progressive Forum, Chair of the Development Committee, PSOE, Spain

Martin Schulz, President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, SPD, Germany          

Juan Somavia, ILO Director General, Chile

Sharan Burrow, President of the ITUC, Australia

 

16.00-17.30          Plenary session -  A new progressive globalisation (Hemicycle)

Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, USA

Juan Somavia, ILO Director General, Chile

Chico Whitaker, Co-Founder and Member of the Organising Committee of the World Social Forum, Brazil

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the PES, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Denmark

 

17.30-19.00          Work session 1 : Making trade work for people (Hemicycle)

Jean Kamau, Country Director of ActionAid, Kenya

Josep Borrell, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Global Progressive Forum, Chair of the Development Committee, PSOE, Spain

Elio Di Rupo, President of PS, former Deputy Prime Minister, PS, Belgium

Baroness Amos, House of Lords, former Secretary of State for International Development, LP, UK

Susan George, writer, Transnational Institute, UK

Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network, Malaysia

 

17.30-19.00          Work session 2 : Sustainable development for social justice (Room PHS 5B 001)

Anna Diamantopolou, Member of Parliament, former European Commissioner, PASOK, Greece

John Monks, General Secretary of the ETUC

Sony Kapoor, Executive Director of Re-Define, India

Drummond Pike, Founder and CEO of Tides, USA

Anne Demelenne, General Secretary of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium

 

17.30-19.00          Work session 3: Equal rights for all women (Anna Lindh Room PHS 1A 002)

Zita Gurmai, Member of the European Parliament, PES Women President, HSP, Hungary

Namrata Bali, Founder of SEWA, India

Taslima Nasreen, Human Rights activist and writer, Sakharov Prize 1994, Bangladesh

Aïcha Belarbi, former Secretary of State for Cooperation and former Ambassador to the EU, USFP, Morocco

Sharan Burrow, President of the ITUC, Australia

 

17.30-19.00          Work session 4: Regional integration for better global governance (Room PHS 3C 050)

Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor, SPÖ, Austria

Chen Fengxiang, Vice Minister of the CPC, China

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

Lawrence Mishel, Chair of the Economic Policy Institute, USA

Piero Fassino, Member of Parliament, EU Special Envoy to Burma, former Minister of Justice, DP, Italy

Luc Cortebeeck, Vice-President of the ITUC, President of the ACV-CSC, Belgium

 

 

FRIDAY, 3 APRIL 2009

9.00-10.30            Work session 5: Why Africa matters (Hemicycle)

António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, former Prime Minister of Portugal and former President of Socialist International, PS, Portugal

Pascal Affi N’guessan, President of FPI, Vice-President of Socialist International, former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast - tbc

Aminata Traoré, former Minister of Culture, writer, Mali

Dario Franceschini, Leader of DP, Italy

Mody Guiro, General Secretary of CNTS, Senegal

 

9.00-10.30            Work session 6: Tackling the energy crisis and climate change (Room PHS 3C 050)

Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister, PS, France

Nicolay Levichev, Member of the Duma, Fraction Leader of the Just Russia Party in the Duma, Russia

João Antonio Felicio, Confederal Secretary of the CUT, Brazil

Magda Stoczkiewicz, Director of Friends of the Earth Europe, Poland

Bob Borosage, Co-Chair of the Campaign for America’s future, USA

 

9.00-10.30            Work session 7: Achieving lasting Peace (Room PHS 5B 001)

Jean Asselborn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, LSAP, Luxembourg

Gareth Evans, Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Australia

Nobuaki Koga, General Secretary of RENGO, Japan

Salima Ghezali, Sakharov Prize 1997, writer, Algeria

Diego López Garrido, Secretary of State for European Affairs, PSOE, Spain

 

9.00-10.30            Work session 8: Making poverty history (Anna Lindh Room PHS 1A 002)

Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for science, technology and ecology, India

Mamadou Faye, Former Minister, PS, Senegal

Mercedes Bresso, President of the Socialist Group in the Committee of Regions, President of the Piedmont Region, DP, Italy

Jean Kamau, Country Director of ActionAid, Kenya

 

10.30-12.00          Plenary session:  Getting out of the economic recession and the financial crisis: A new direction for capitalism (Hemicycle)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the PES, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Denmark

Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization, France

John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO, USA

Marco Aurelio Garcia, Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Policy, PT, Brazil

John Evans, General Secretary of TUAC-OECD, UK

 

12.00-12.30          "Time for a Global New Deal", The GPF Declaration – signing event (Hemicycle)

 

14.00-15.30          Work session 9: Global Deal for Green Growth (Hemicycle)

Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for science, technology and ecology, India

Josep Borrell, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Global Progressive Forum, Chair of the Development Committee, PSOE, Spain

Pascal Affi N’guessan, President of FPI, Vice-President of Socialist International, former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast

Jutta Urpilainen, Leader of SDP, Member of Parliament, Finland

Richard Samans, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, USA

 

15.30-17.00          Work session 10: Implementing Decent Work for all (Hemicycle)

Carlos Ominami Pascual, Vice-President of the Senate, PS, Chile

Guy Ryder, General Secretary of the ITUC

Harlem Désir, Member European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Global Progressive Forum, Vice-President of the Socialist Group, PS, France

Elisabeth Tang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Hong Kong/China

Bob Kuttner, Editor of the American Prospect, USA

 

15.30-17.00          Work session 11: Feeding the planet (Room PHS 3C 050)

Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Belgium

                                Moema Miranda, Secretary General of iBase, Brazil

Joao Cravinho, Secretary of State for Development, PS, Portugal

Phil Bloomer, Director Campaigns and Policy, Oxfam, UK

Sanjeeva Reddy, President of the Indian National Trade Union Congress, India

 

15.30-17.00          Work session 12: Globalization and migration (Room PHS 5B 001)

Victor Enrique Fabela, Secretary for Foreign Relations, Union Nacional de Trabajadores, Mexico

John Tesha, General Secretary of the Africa Forum, Republic of South Africa

Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister for Justice, PSOE, Spain

Mustapha Ben Jaafar, Leader of FDTL, Candidate for the Presidential Elections 2009, Tunisia

Viviana Piñeiro, IUSY Vice-President, PSU, Uruguay

 

15.30-17.00          Work session 13: A New Global Governance (Anna Lindh Room PHS 1A 002)

Caroline Gennez, Leader SP.a, Belgium

Maria João Rodrigues, former Minister of Labour, Professor of Economics, University of Lisbon and Free University of Brussels, Portugal

Stephany Griffith-Jones, IPD, Columbia University, USA

Kenneth V. Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Canada

Shrawan Nigam, Senior consultant at ICRIER, India

 

17.00-18.30               Plenary session: Progressive is the way forward. Closing address and ceremony (Hemicycle)

Taslima Nasreen, Human Rights activist and writer, Sakharov Prize 1994, Bangladesh

Josep Borrell, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Global Progressive Forum, Chair of the Development Committee, PSOE, Spain

Karl Auguste Offmann, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius, Mauritius

Alpha Conde, Leader Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée, Guinea

Lawrence Mishel, Chair of the Economic Policy Institute, USA

 

Our Global Progressive Forum; Let’s move on

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the PES, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Denmark

Guy Ryder, General Secretary of the ITUC