09.30

Welcome Desk and Registration Desk open at European Parliament Main Entrance Paul Henry Spaak, Rue Wiertz, 60

10.00

Welcome speech and introduction by Mr Josep Borrell Fontelles, Chair of the Committee on Development, European Parliament, and Mr Jožef Jerovšek, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy, National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia

10.10

The development policy of the European Union

Keynote Speech by Mr Louis Michel, Member of the European Commission with responsibility for Development and Humanitarian Aid

10.30

Questions and answers

11.00

Role of Parliaments in the Aid effectiveness agenda (Accra High Level Forum) in the context of policy coherence for development

Keynote speech by Mr Alain Hutchinson and Mr Frithjof Schmidt, Members of the European Parliament

Keynote speech by 2 MPs from National Parliaments

11.50

Communication by Mr Justin Kilkullen, President of CONCORD (European NGO confederation

12.00

Exchange of views

13.00

End of morning session

Lunch break

(buffet lunch hosted by Mr Borrell Fontelles, President of the Committee on Development)

14.30

Communication by Mr Andrej Å ter (tbc), Presidency-in-office of the European Union, State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

14.45

Questions and answers

15.15

The new Member States and EU Development Cooperation

Keynote speech by Ms Danuté Budreikaitė and Mr Filip Kaczmarek, Members of the European Parliament

Keynote speech by 2 MPs from National Parliaments

16.15

Exchange of views

17.10

Closing remarks by Mr Josep Borrell Fontelles and Mr Jožef Jerovšek

17.30

End of meeting