OUR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS
24 and 25 June 2025
VENUE: Av. Blas Infante, 4, 7ª planta, 41011 Sevilla – UGT Andalucia
Interpretation: French, English, Spanish, Italian
24 June 2025
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | Opening | Ludovic Voet, ETUC Confederal Secretary
Oskar Martín, General Secretary, UGT Andalucía, |
| 16:30 | Session 1: Macroeconomy and global landscapes – 1.1 Different visions of competitiveness and social progress in the light of recent economic turmoil.. |
Keynote: Lukas Betran, Zoe Institute
Discussant: Stefano Fassina, economist TU Discussant: Lea Das Neves Bicho, ETUC Economist Debate |
| 17:30 | End of the first day | |
| 18:00 | Cocktail |
25 June 2025
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Session 2 on the offensive for investment. 2.1: Why private investments lag behind. What to do to relaunch investments and what investment? |
Chairs: Ludovic Voet, ETUC Confederal Secretary
Keynote: Nikolaas Baeckelmans (Vice President European Affairs, ExxonMobil) Discussant: Nadia Calviño (President of the EIB Group ) (TBC) TU Discussant: TUSLO |
| 10:00 | 2.2:A EU Financed investment fund. How, why and to finance what? | Keynote: Philippe Lambert (Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission)
Discussant: Jose Domingo Rosello (Head of the Macroeconomic & Labour Policies Unit. Office of the Spanish Prime Minister) TU Discussant: Kristian Bongelli, Confederal Secretary, CFDT |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:30 | 2.3: Boosting social investments in Europe | Keynote: Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome Tor Vergata and UN expert on beyond GDP
Discussant: Lennard Welslau, University of Copenhagen and Danmark Nationalbank TU Discussant: Tatu Knuutila, economist SAK Finland |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Session 3: the upward social convergence issue
3.1: Upward social convergence: how to meet workers’ expectations in the social convergence framework. |
Keynote: Slavina Spasova, Director European Social Observatory (OSE) and João Magalhães, associated researcher OSE
Discussants: Katia Berti, Head of Unit, DG EMPL, European Commission TU Discussant: Dumitru Costin, President BNS, Romania |
| 15:00 | 3.2: A social agenda for the EU. Fighting austerity, promoting investment and creating quality jobs. | Chair: Ludovic Voet Speakers – Idoia Mendia Cueva, Member of the European Parliament, S&D Group – Jesús Gallego García, Secretario de Internacional UGT Spain – Cristina Fabiacen, Secretaria de Internacional y Cooperación, CCOO Spain – Rep of the Spanish government |
| 16:30 | Conclusions of the RETHINKING SESSION | Ludovic Voet |
| 17:00 | End of the event |
RETHINKING EXPERTS 2025
Lukas Bertram, Economist, Zoe Institute
Lukas studied economics at Leibniz University Hanover, specialising in environmental-, development-, and macroeconomics. In his master thesis, he investigated the welfare effects of economic growth in contrast to other macro indicators. Lukas joined ZOE as an intern in January 2021 and later worked as a research assistant and junior economist.
Philippe Lamberts, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission
Graduated as an engineer in applied mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain, From 1987 to 2009, he held various commercial and managerial positions at IBM. In June 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament for a first term, mainly dealing with banking and financial regulations. On 25 May 2014, he was re-elected as MEP and one month later became Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group following an internal election process. After five years dedicated to strengthening the position of environmentalists within and outside the European institutions, Philippe got re-elected as Co-President of the Green Group that became Parliament’s fourth largest political force following the European elections on 26 May 2019. For his third and final term as MEP, Philippe aims to put climate emergency at the top of the European agenda.
Jose Domingo Rosello, Head of the Macroeconomic and Financial Policies Unit. Economical Affairs and G20. Office of the Prime Minister
Jose Domingo Roselló was born in Herencia, a town of La Mancha. He is 50 years old and is an Economist. He obtained his degree in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He has work in public and private sector and the university. He has also experience in the trade union field, being form 2017 to 2021 a economist in the Service of Studies of UGT, and working as a TUSLO during that period. Since June of 2021, he works at Office of the Prime Minister of Spain in the position of Head of the Macroeconomic & Labour Policies Unit.
Enrico Giovannini, Professor of Economic Statistics at the Economics and Finance Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician. From February 2021 until October 2022 he served as Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility in the Draghi Government. Since 2002 he has been a full professor at Rome University “Tor Vergata”. He was Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government, President of the Italian Statistical Institute, Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD. . He is the co-founder and director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), a coalition established to implement in Italy the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
Lennard Welslau, University of Copenhagen and Danmark Nationalbank
Lennard is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Danmarks Nationalbank. He was a Research analyst at Bruegel from October 2022 to September 2024, working on sovereign debt sustainability, EU fiscal governance, bond markets and inflation. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics in Freiburg and Buenos Aires and holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. Before joining Bruegel, he worked as a trainee with the European Central Bank, held research assistant positions at the University of Freiburg and Copenhagen Business School, and was a research consultant with the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Slavina Spasova, Director of European Social Observatory (OSE)
Slavina Spasova, doctor of political science (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), has been Director of the OSE since 1 December 2023. Previously, she was a Senior Researcher (2021) and Researcher (2016) in the field of social protection at the OSE. She is the coordinator of the OSE within the European Social Policy Network (ESPN). As such, his research agenda focuses on various social protection topics such as the protection of the self-employed, pension reforms, work-life balance, healthcare, long-term care, health benefits. Slavina is also a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Political Life (CEVIPOL) of the ULB and, since September 2020, she has also been working as a visiting expert at the Department of Social and Labour Sciences (ULB). In October 2021, Slavina joined the editorial board of the Journal of European Social Security. His previous work explored the process of transformation of Bulgarian trade unions since 1989 and their involvement in the construction of social institutions through the mechanisms of international socialisation and the “customs of Europe”.
Katia Berti, Head Of Unit – Employment and social aspects of the European Semester at European Commission
Katia Berti was Head of Sector Macroeconomy of the Euro Area at the European Commission, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. She joined the European Commission in 2009, working mostly on fiscal policy and labour market and social policies. She has a PhD in economics from the University of Nottingham and completed postgraduate studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the College of Europe.
Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation
Before being elected as Confederal Secretary at the ETUC’s May 2019 Congress, Ludovic Voet was national youth leader of the Belgian CSC union from July 2015. As President of Young CSC, he was responsible for the development of young people’s action within the union organisations (federations and local unions), external representation, organising, affiliation and lobbying.
