Friday 21st of October 2022

Opening of the Forum

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

Rania Svigkou (General Secretary of Syriza-PA, Greece)
Conny Hildebrandt (Co-President of transform!europe)
Ernest Urtasun (MEP, Catalunya en Comú, Greens/EFA) (VIDEO)

Moderation: Vicky Tsefala (Youth of Syriza, Greece) (TBC)

Roundtable with social movements: "How to build peace”

(EN, GR)

Speaking and acting for Peace is the most crucial political act - especially in times of War. This roundtable hosts experts and activists from social movements and civil society organisations around Europe to exchange on the importance of peace-building and security concepts beyond militarisation. We will discuss strategies to strengthen our collaborative efforts for a just future in peace, reflecting the title of this year’s European Forum: “For peace, social and climate justice”.

Moderated discussion with short initial inputs by:
Niamh Ni Bhriain (Transnational Institute - TNI)
Läeticia Sedou (European Network Against Arms Trade - ENAAT)
Saskia Basa (Quaker Council for European Affairs - QCEA)
Raffaella Bollini (Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana - ARCI)
Tobias Pflüger (Observatory for Militarisation - IMI)
Manuela Mesa (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF)
Axel Gehring (research fellow, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Sinan Önal (Kurdistan National Congress)
Luisa Sello (Dialop)
Wiltrud Rösch-Metzler (Pax Christi)

Moderation: Katerina Anastasiou (transform!europe) and Axel Ruppert (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels)

(Organised by Transform!europe)

Workshop: "Public services in healthcare: towards new social securities”

(EN, FR, GR)

Alina Tankelium (Health Care Workers Union, Vice-President of EPSU Committee, Lithuania)
Fabien Cohen (PCF, France)
Andreas Xanthos (Former Greek Minister of Health)

Moderation: Adam Rogalewski (Policy Officer for Health and Social Services, European Federation of Public Service Unions - EPSU)

(Organised by the EL Public Services WG and EPSU)

Workshop European Foundations: “Possibilities of a socio-ecological transformation of the energy sector in times of war”

(EN, GR)

Laurent Standaert (Political Director of the Green European Foundation - GEF)
David Rinaldi (Director of Studies & Policy of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies - FEPS)
Dorothy Guerrero (Global Justice Now)

Moderator: Conny Hildebrandt (Co-President of transform!europe)

Coffee Break

Plenary 1: A new social and ecological compass for Europe

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

This plenary aims to outline a political alternative to the strategic compass proposed by the European Commission in March 2022. In particular, we will have the opportunity to address the need to engage in a just social and ecological bifurcation.

Pétros Kókkalis (MEP, Syriza-PA, The Left in the EP)
Claudia Horn (London School of Economics and political science, Belém/Brasil)
Aida Sopi Niang (Deputy Mayor of Dakar, Yewi Askan bii party (Free the people), Senegal)
Marga Ferré (Co-President of transform!europe)

Moderation: Georgi Pirinski (MEP S&D 2014-2019, BSP, Bulgaria)

Welcome Cocktail

POLITICAL CONFERENCE

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

Alexis Tsipras (President of Syriza-PA, Greece)
Yolanda Díaz (Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Spain) (VIDEO)
Heinz Bierbaum (President of the Party of the European Left)
Aurélie Trouvé (President of NUPES Parliament, France) (via Zoom)
Mary Lou McDonald (President of Sinn Féin) (VIDEO)
Martina Anderson (Representative of Sinn Féin in Europe)
Udo Bullmann (MEP, SPD, S&D)
Anna Pic (National Secretary responsible for the Europe Sector, Socialist Party, France)
Stefanos Stefanou (General Secretary of AKEL, Cyprus)
Manon Aubry (Co-Chair of the Left in the EP)

Under the presidency of Pierre Laurent (Coordinator of the European Forum)

Saturday 22nd of October 2022

Trade Unionists Assembly: “Trade Unions’ solutions to the energy crisis”

(EN, GR, ES)

With the participation of:
Nikos Fotopoulos (Member of the Executive Board of the General Confederation of Greek Workers - GSEE)
Sarah Beran (Political Secretary of the ÖGB, Austria)

Moderation: Enrique Carmona (Head of CCOO Brussels office, Spain)

Culture Assembly: "Culture, a weapon of mass humanity"

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

Moni Ovadia (Actor, musician, singer, theatrical author, Italy) (via Zoom)
Eva Brenner (Experimental theatre worker, author, and producer) (via Zoom)
Jean-Michel Leterrier (Former responsible for cultural policy of the CGT, France) (via Zoom)
Thomas Tsalapatis (Greek artist and author)
Eugenia Arsenis (Dramaturg, Dr. in Philosophical Aesthetics, Greece)

Moderation: Olga Athaniti (Actress and co-coordinator of the EL Culture Network)

Coffee break

Feminist Assembly: "Women's rights against right wing, fascism and imperialism"

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

Fotini Kouvela (Former General Secretary for Gender Equality, Greece)
Skevi Koukouma (Secretary General of the Women's Movement POGO and former AKEL MP, Cyprus)
Toni Morillas (Director of Women Institute, Spain) (via Zoom)
Jeannette Escanillas (Feminist, internationalist and activist for justice, President of the Association "Ship to Gaza Sweden" and former MP Vänsterpartiet, Sweden) (via Zoom)
Gabriella Lopez (Democratic Socialists of America - DSA, USA)
Elisa Giustinianovich (Feminist Coordinator of Punta Arenas, the Plataforma Feminista Constituyente y Plurinacional and the environmental movement MAT, Chile)
Aida Sopi Niang (Deputy Mayor of Dakar, Yewi Askan bii party (Free the people), Senegal)
Gloria Inez Ramirez (Minister of Labour of Colombia, Foro de São Paulo) (VIDEO)

Moderation: Ada Donno (FDMIN, Italy) and Katerina Papatheodorou (Co-coordinator of the EL Feminism WG)

Conclusions: Cristina Simo (Movimiento Democrático de Mujeres – MDM, Feminist sector of the Communist Party of Spain)

Youth Assembly: “The impact of war on youth and their response”

(EN, FR, GR)

Workshop: "Right to housing: how to defeat speculation"

(EN, FR, GR)

Introduction: Konstantinos Arvanitis (MEP, Syriza-PA, The Left in the EP)

Ian Brossat (Vice-mayor of Paris in charge of housing, spokesperson of PCF, France)
Theano Fotiou (Former Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity, Syriza-PA MP, responsible for housing policy, Greece)
Jon Rodriguez (International responsible for Izquierda Unida, Spain)
Frederic Faravel (Member of the direction of Gauche Républicaine et Socialiste - GRS, France)

Conclusions: Marisa Matias (MEP, Bloco de Esquerda, The Left in the EP) (TBC)

(Organised by The Left in the EP)

Lunch

Plenary 2: Against the return of war, for peace and disarmament: a new collective security

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

The objective of this plenary will be to outline a new collective safety architecture based on nuclear disarmament, military de-escalation, an end to over-armament, respect for the territorial integrity of nations and the defence of human rights.

Danai Koltsida (Head of the European Policy and Foreign Affairs Sector of Syriza-PA and Director of the Poulantzas Institute)
Natalie Bennett (MP, Green Party, UK) (via Zoom)
Reiner Braun (Director of the International Peace Bureau - IPB)
Willy Meyer (Conclusions of the peace summit in Madrid)
Laëtitia Sédou (European Network Against the Arms Trade - ENAAT)
Neoklís Sylikiótis (Member of the Political Bureau, former Minister, former MEP, AKEL, Cyprus)
Hişyar Özsoy (Deputy Chair of HDP responsible for foreign affairs and Member of Parliament, Turkey)
Bjørnar Moxnes (Leader of the Red Party, Norway) (VIDEO)

Moderation: Maite Mola (First Vice-President of the Party of the European Left)

Coffee Break

Workshop: “How the left might address the current energy crisis”

(EN, FR, GR)

Mathieu Strale (Member of the Study Departement of PTB-PVDA, Belgium)
Boye Ullmann (Secretary of the department in charge of the Trade Union work, Red Party of Norway)
Fredi Gentz (Campaign « Enough is enough », ACORN The Union, United Kingdom)

Moderation: Manuela Kropp (Project Manager, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)

(Organised by the EL Energy Transformation and Industrial Policy WG)

Workshop: "Energy poverty and food crisis: how to keep track of climate ambitions"

(EN, FR, GR)

Moderation: Petros Kokkalis (MEP, Syriza-PA, The Left in the EP)

(Organised by The Left in the EP)

Workshop: "The Future of Europe: Democratic or dystopian?"

(EN, GR, ES)

Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou (Former Minister, Syriza-PA MP, Greece)
Yiannis Bournous (MP, Syriza-PA, Greece)
Helmut Scholz (MEP, Die Linke, The Left in the EP)
Marilena Koppa (Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of International, European and Regional Studies, Panteion University, former Member of the European Parliament, Greece)
Raffaella Bolini (Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana - ARCI)

(Organised by Syriza-PA)

Dinner

Concert: Marina Satti

Sunday 23rd of October 2022

Plenary 3: Solidarity as answer to current challenges

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

We want to put at the center of the debate the multidimensional issues of food, respect and preservation of the living, as well as social, energy and migration among others, because the notion of security is not strictly military.

Patrick Le Hyaric (Former MEP, presentation of his special issue "War and Hunger")
Esther Lynch (Deputy General Secretary of European Trade Union Confederation - ETUC)
Benoit Biteau (MEP, EELV, Greens/EFA)
Jean-Marie Collin (Expert and co-spokesperson of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), France)
Tiny Kox (President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - PACE, Netherlands) (VIDEO)
Sea Watch (TBC)

Moderation: Dagmar Švendová (Responsible for Central and Eastern European Strategy at Transform!europe)

Coffee Break

Conclusions

(EN, FR, GR, ES)

Final Declaration and action plan / Towards the 7th European Forum

Coordinated by Jose Luis Centella (European Forum Committee)

With the participation of:
Marta Martin Moran (Communist Party of Spain)
Yota Lazaropoulou (President of the Greek Trade Union SEET)
Dorothy Guerrero (Global Justice Now)
Walter Baier (former President of Transform!europe)