EUU, Alm.del - 2018-19 (1. samling) - Bilag 26: Invitation til Subsidiaritetskonferencen i Bregenz i Østrig 15. og 16. november 2018

Europaudvalget 2018-19 (1. samling)
EUU Alm.del Bilag 26
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Draft Programme, 23.10.2018

Subsidiarity

as a building principle of the European Union

Conference at the Festspielhaus Bregenz

15 to 16 November 2018

Thursday, 15 November 2018

2.00 p.m.

–

2.30 p.m.

Opening



Markus WALLNER, Governor of Vorarlberg



Sebastian KURZ, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria

2.30 p.m.

–

4.00 p.m.

Panel 1: Why subsidiarity?

Short presentations



Christian CALLIESS, Professor for Public Law and European Law at the Freie

Universität Berlin, legal adviser at the European Policy Centre



Christian KASTROP, Director of the Bertelsmann Foundation

Moderated discussion

with



Christian BUCHMANN, Chair of the EU Committee of the Austrian Federal

Council



Kathy RIKLIN, Member of the National Council of Switzerland



Benno ELBS, Bishop of Feldkirch

Panel discussion

with Q&A from the audience

4.00 p.m.

–

4.30 p.m.

–

6.00 p.m.

Coffee break

Panel 2: The subsidiarity principle in practice

Short presentation

“Works

on national parliaments”

given by

the

Task

Force

and

their

impact



Reinhold LOPATKA, Chair of the EU Sub-Committee of the Austrian National

Council and Member of the Task Force on Subsidiarity and Proportionality and

“Doing Less More Efficiently”

Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2018

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EUU, Alm.del - 2018-19 (1. samling) - Bilag 26: Invitation til Subsidiaritetskonferencen i Bregenz i Østrig 15. og 16. november 2018

Draft Programme, 23.10.2018

Moderated discussion

with



Ulrike RABMER-KOLLER, President of the European Association of craft, small

and medium-sized enterprises UEAPME, Vice-President of the Austrian

Economic Chambers



Alfred RIEDL, President of the Austrian Association of Municipalities



Viviane REDING, former Vice-President of the European Commission



Franz SCHAUSBERGER, Chair of the Institute of the Regions of Europe

Panel discussion

with Q&A from the audience

7.30 p.m.

Dinner

given by Markus WALLNER, Governor of Vorarlberg

Friday, 16 November 2018

09.30 a.m.

–

11.30 a.m.

Welcome to the political segment



Gernot BLÜMEL, Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media

of the Republic of Austria

Keynote speech

given by



Frans TIMMERMANS, First Vice-President of the European Commission

and Chairman of the Task Force on

Subsidiarity and Proportionality and “Doing

Less More Efficiently”

Moderated interview

with



Mairead McGUINNESS, Vice-President of the European Parliament



Frans TIMMERMANS, First Vice-President of the European Commission

and Chairman of the Task Force



Victor NEGRESCU, Minister Delegate for European Affairs of Romania



Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ, President of the European Committee of the Regions

and Member of the Task Force



Markus WALLNER, Governor of Vorarlberg

Closing remarks

given by



Gernot BLÜMEL, Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media

of the Republic of Austria

11.30 a.m.

12.00 a.m.

Press conference

Lunch

given by Gernot BLÜMEL, Federal Minister for the EU, Arts, Culture and

Media of the Republic of Austria

Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2018

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