Trade Union Dialogues in the framework of the EU Semester 2024 & RETHINKING 2024
June 11 @ 15:00 – June 13 @ 17:30
CISL Lombardia, Milan, Italy
Agenda
11th June – Kick-off new ETUC Semester Toolkit – introduction to Rethinking session
Kick off new ETUC Semester Toolkit | Speaker | |
3pm-4pm | Building blocks of a ETUC Strategy against austerity and for a sustainable job-rich growth | Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary, ETUC |
4pm – 5pm | National Structural Plans and Fiscal Trajectories – crash course | Marco Cilento, Head of Institutional Policy, ETUC |
5pm -5.30pm | Introduction to the Rethinking Programme, contents and objectives | ETUC |
8pm | Dinner |
12th June – Trade Union Dialogues in the framework of the EU Semester 2024: ETUC priorities against austerity and for investments
9.30 am -12.30 pm | FIRST SESSION: RRF, lessons learned on social investment | Speaker |
ETUC priorities and objective of the meeting | Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary, ETUC | |
Social dimension of National Recovery and Resilience Plans. | Maria Teresa FÁBREGAS, Director, European Commission Recovery and Resilience Task Force – SG.RECOVER.B | |
10.15 – 11.00 | Debate | Exchange with TUSLO |
11.00 – 11.30 | Break | |
11.30 – 11.50 | Involvement of Social Partners in the RRF | Ricardo Rodriguez Contreras, research manager, Eurofound |
11.50 – 12.30 | National practices from TUSLO, getting ready to influence Mid-Term Fiscal Structural Plans | TUSLO |
12.30pm – 2pm | Lunch Break | |
2pm – 5pm | SECOND SESSION: Anti-austerity measures and mid-term fiscal structural plans | |
Fiscal trajectories, DSA and common EU priorities. | Joao Nogueira Martins, Head of Unit. Policy Coordination. DG Economic and Financial Affairs. European Commission | |
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm | Debate | Exchange with TUSLO |
3.15 pm – 3.45pm | Break | |
3.45 pm – 4.15pm | Social priorities and common objectives in the Mid-Term Fiscal-Structural Plans. Role of trade unions. | Katia Berti, Head of Unit – European Semester, EMCO DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission |
4.15 pm – 5.00pm | Debate | |
5.00 pm – 5.30pm | Coordinating trade union inputs to Mid-Term Fiscal-Structural Plans | TUSLO Conclusions Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary, ETUC |
5.30 pm | End of the Day |
13th June – ETUC Rethinking the EU development model for sustainability and social progress
9am – 9.40am | TOPIC 1: Private investments. How to align them to common green and social objectives, do not harm principle, minimum social safeguards. | Dialogue with: Helena Viñes Fiestas, Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, Commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority TU Discussant:Anne Lindsay, ITF and observer member of the Sustainable Finance Platform |
9.40am -11.00am | TOPIC 2: Thinking Progressive in drafting Multiannual Development Plans. Main social challenges and people’s perception of urgent challenges. | Rocío Martínez-Sampere, Director Foundation Felipe Gonzales TU Discussant: TUSLO |
11am – 11.30am | Break | |
11.30am – 12.15pm | TOPIC 3: Priority to Social Investments In The New European Semester. How to do, what objectives, how to measure progress. | Sebastian Mang and Dominic Caddick, New Economy Foundation TU Discussant: Dominika Biegon, DGB and member of the Economic and Social Committee of the EU. Interventions from TUSLO |
12.15pm – 1.00pm | TOPIC 4: Combining “green” and “social” in national structural plans. Trade union common objectives. | Dialogue with Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary, ETUC |
1.00pm – 2.30pm | Lunch | |
2.30pm – 5.30pm (break at 4pm) | TOPIC 5: Fair and effective tax policies – a theory of change for trade unions. | Severine Picard, Coordinator of the Network of Unions for Tax Justice Dialogue with Experts |
5.30pm | End of Rethinking event |