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Enlargement Day

  • 31.05.2017 0:00 am / 23:59 pm
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Day 1: Wednesday 31 May 2017 Joint Consultative Committees (JCC) and Working Groups (WG) ​ ​ ​ ​parallel sessions
​ ​JCC Montenegro ​JCC Serbia ​WG Western Balkans ​WG Turkey
​ ​Agenda ​Agenda ​Agenda ​Agenda
14:30-18:00  JDE 70 Thematic session: Sustainable urban development ​ JDE 52 Thematic session: Structural and cohesion funds: transposing lessons to Pre-Accession funds JDE 51 Thematic session: Promoting entrepreneurship ​ VMA 1 Thematic session: Sub-national governance in Turkey: empowering local authorities ​
   
Day 2: Thursday 1 June 2017 Enlargement Day Plenary Session Room: JDE 52 | Interpretation: DE / EL/ EN/ FR/ HR/ IT/ NL/ SL/ MNE/ SQ/SR/MK ISO 639-1 Moderator: Andrew Gardner ​ ​
​09:00-09:30 ​Welcome Statements
  • Karl-Heinz LAMBERTZ (BE/PES), 1st Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions
  • David McALLISTER (DE/EPP), Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur on Serbia
  • Johannes HAHN, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement (video message)
09:30-10:00​ ​Reporting back from the JCC and WG meetings
  • Co-Chairs of the Joint Consultative Committees
  • Chairs of the Working Groups
  • Ivica KONEVSKI, Mayor of Municipality of Aerodrom, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
​10:00-11:00 ​Panel Debate 1: Enlargement: Dynamics and Stabilisation
  • Allan JONES, Head of Unit "Strategy, Policy", DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission
  • Corina STRATULAT, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre
  • Naim ISMAJLI, Mayor of Shtime Municipality, President of the Board of the Association of Kosovo* Municipalities
11:00-11:15​ ​coffee break
11:15-12:15​ ​Panel Debate 2: Connectivity
  • Morten JUNG, Senior Adviser, Western Balkans Directorate, DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission
  • Dirk BUSCHLE, Deputy Director, Energy Community Secretariat, Vienna
  • Adam SZOLYAK, Policy Officer "Networks and Regional Initiatives", DG Energy of the European Commission
  • Fuad KASUMOVIĆ, Mayor of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
12:15-12:30​ ​Closing remarks
  • Hughie McGRATH (IE/EA), Member of the European Committee of the Regions, Member of Tipperary County Council, Co-Chair of JCC Montenegro
  *This designation is without prejudice to positions on the status of Kosovo, and  is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

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