Trade Union Dialogues in the framework of the EU Semester 2024 & RETHINKING 2024

11^th June 2024 – 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, ETUC
4pm – 5pm	National Structural Plans and Fiscal Trajectories – crash course	Marco Cilento, ETUC
5pm -5.30 pm	Introduction to the Rethinking Programme, contents and objectives	ETUC
8pm	Dinner

12^th June 2024 – 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, ETUC
	Social dimension of National Recovery and Resilience Plans.	European Commission DG-Recovery
	Social investments and economic governance	Belgian Presidency of the EU
	Involvement of Social Partners in the RRF	Eurofound
	National practices from TUSLO	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.	Dialogue between ECFIN and TUSLO
	Social priorities and common objectives in the Mid-Term Fiscal-Structural Plans. Role of trade unions.	Dialogue between DG EMPL and TUSLO
	Coordinating trade union inputs to Mid-Term Fiscal-Structural Plans	TUSLO Conclusions Ludo Voet, ETUC

13^th June – ETUC Rethinking the EU development model for sustainability and social progress

9 am -9.40 am	TOPIC 1: Private investments. How to align them to common green and social objectives, do not harm principle, minimum social safeguards.	Helena Viñes Fiestas, Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, Commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority TU Discussant: TUSLO   Interventions from TUSLO
9.40 am -11 am	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 (confirmed)   TU Discussant: TUSLO   Debate with TUSLO
11am – 11.30 am	Break
11.30 am 12.15 pm	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: TUSLO   Interventions from TUSLO
12.15 pm 1 pm	Topic 5: Combining “green” and “social” in national structural plans. Trade union common objectives.	Dialogue with Ludovic Voets, ETUC Confederal Secretary
1pm  lunch
2.30pm – 5.30pm (break at 4pm)	TOPIC 4: 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