Programme

4th November - BOZAR

19:00

Welcome and presentation of the latest issue of Queries on Migration

Ernst Stetter, Secretary General of FEPS.

Hosted by FEPS

"EU Wake Up: on the way to developing a true European migration Policy?"

Gianni Pittella, MEP and President of S&D Group

Light refreshments will be served

20:00 – 21:30

Movie projection: "Leave to remain"

Hosted by S&D

21:30 – 22:15

Debate with Bruce Goodison, movie director & Ebrahim Esmail, one of the main actors.

5th November - CONCERT NOBLE

08:15	Welcome coffee
09:00	Opening Massimo D’Alema, President of FEPS and former Prime Minister of Italy
09:15 – 10:00	Keynote Speech Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists
10:00 – 13:00	Session 1 Building a Common Progressive European Approach on Asylum Seekers Academics Lisa Schuster, Reader in Sociology, City University London Steffen Angenendt, Researcher and Senior Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Policy Makers Khalid Chaouki, Member of the Italian Parliament Javier Moreno Sanchez, Secretary General, S&D Group Yolande Ditewig, Policy Officer from Bureau for Europe, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Kashetu Kyenge, Member of the European Parliament Civil Society Torsten Moritz, Executive Secretary for EU Policy and Projects Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) Anna Knoll, Policy Officer in the Strengthening European External Action Programme at European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Luca Visentini, Confederal Secretary, European Union Trade Confederation Chair Ernst Stetter, Secretary General, FEPS Final remarks Aissata Tall Sall, Mayor of Podor, Senegal
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:25 - 14:40	Book Launch “How European Cities Craft Immigrant Integration. Something to Learn” Irene Ponzo, Researcher, Forum of International and European Research on Immigration (FIERI)
14:40 – 15:00	Keynote Speech Eugenio Ambrosi, nominated Regional Director for the European Economic Area, the EU and NATO of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
15:00 – 18:00	Session 2 Conflict and asylum seekers in the MENA: a wake up call for EU neighbourhood policies Academics Usha Natarajan, Assistant Professor of International Law, Department of Law and Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, The American University in Cairo (AUC). Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Senior Researcher, Migration and Refugee Studies at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Policy Makers Zohra Lhioui, Socialist Union of Popular Forces of Morocco Marju Lauristin, Member of the European Parliament Civil Society Aspasia Papadopoulou, Senior Advocacy Officer, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) Conny Reuter, Secretary General SOLIDAR Guiseppe Iuliano, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and International Department of Confederazione Italiana Sindacati dei Lavoratori (CISL) Chair Bruno Liebhaberg, Chair of the Scientific Council, FEPS
18:00	Closing
	Rapporteurs: Soenke Schmidt, Former EU Minister Counsellor on Migration and Asylum Affairs to the UN / Advisor to FEPS Laura Caroli & Piotr Plewa (FEPS YAN)