The French EU Presidency : facing an environmental emergency:, Montreuil

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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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Groenen/Europese Vrije Alliantie (Groenen/EVA)

In de fractie van De Groenen/Europese Vrije Alliantie (EVA) werken sinds 1999 Groenen en regionale groeperingen ('vertegenwoordigers van stateloze naties') uit verschillende Europese landen met elkaar samen in het Europees Parlement i. De Groenen/EVA streven naar een Europa met meer oog voor mensenrechten, milieu en een open bestuur. Ook vertegenwoordigen zij enkele regionale partijen.

De fractie wordt door 72 Europarlementariërs uit 18 landen en 3 regio's vertegenwoordigd, het hoogste aantal dat zij ooit heeft behaald. Daarmee is zij de op vier na grootste fractie in het Europees Parlement.

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