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

CISL Lombardia, Milan, Italy

 

Agenda

11^th 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 Presentation	Marco Cilento, Head of Institutional Policy, ETUC
5pm -5.30pm	Introduction to the Rethinking Programme, contents and objectives	ETUC
8pm	Dinner

12^th 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. Presentation	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 Presentation	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. Presentation	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. Presentation	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 – 7.00 pm	Drinks with Trade Unions of Lombardia

13^th 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   Presentation TU Discussant: Dominika Biegon, DGB and member of the Economic and Social Committee of the EU. Cédric Koch, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Presentation Discussant: Francesco Corti, Advisor to the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Health. Presentation 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 – 4.00pm	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   Berry Johnson, Founding partner of Purpose Union Dialogue with Experts
4.00pm	End of Rethinking event