NEW EUROPE, NEW ECONOMY

7 November 2017, Thon EU Hotel

08:30-09.00 Registration and welcome coffee Maria Luís Albuquerque, former

Minister of State and Finance of
Portugal
09:00-09:15 Welcome: Mikuláš Dzurinda, President
of the Martens Centre Paulina Dejmek-Hack, Financial
Opening speech: Joseph Daul, advisor to the President of the
President of the European People’s Party European Commission
(EPP)
Karim Lesina, Vice President of AT&T for
09:15-10:15 PANEL 1 Surf safe and secure: an International External Affairs
economic perspective
Moderated by: Juha-Pekka Nurvala,
Andreas Schwab, MEP, Committee EPP Acting Head of Unit for Policy and
on the Internal Market and Consumer
Strategy
Protection
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
Dara Murphy, MP, European People’s
Party (EPP) Vice President, former
Irish Minister for EU Affairs 12:00-13:15 PANEL 3 New work, new welfare

Eva Ines Obergfell, Professor of civil

law, central intellectual property rights EPP Talks Mairead McGuinness, MEP,
and copyright at the Humboldt
Vice-President of the European Parliament
University in Berlin (TBC)
(TBC)
David Wheeldon, Group Director of
Policy and Public Affairs, Sky Petteri Orpo, MP, Minister of Finance of
Finland, Leader of the National Coalition
Moderated by: Gonçalo Carriço, EPP Party (Kokoomus)
Political Adviser for Innovation,
Technology and Digital Policy Ziga Turk, Professor at the University
of Ljubljana, former Minister of
10.15-10.30 Coffee break Education and Science of Slovenia

10:30-11:45 PANEL 2 Ready, set, invest: the Julie Anne Fionda, Advisor to the
Juncker plan and beyond Commissioner Employment, Social
Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
Maria Spyraki, MEP, Committee on (TBC)
Regional Development
Moderated by: Roland
Freudenstein, Policy Director,
Martens Centre
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7 November 2017, Thon EU Hotel

13:15-14:15 Networking Lunch 15:45-17:00 PANEL 5 Bit by bit: building a Digital

Single Market
14:15-15:30 PANEL 4 Making globalisation great
again Ramona Nicole Mănescu, MEP,
Committee on Foreign Affairs (TBC)
EPP Talks Jyrki Katainen, European
Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Torsten A. Andersen, Deputy
Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Director General, The Danish Business
Authority
Jyrki Katainen, European Commission
Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Erika Widegren, Chief Executive of
Investment and Competitiveness Re-Imagine Europa

Thomas Spiller, Vice President, Public

Zdravko Marić, Minister of Finance of
Policy, EMEA at The Walt Disney
Croatia
Company
Mark van der Horst, Director EU Affairs,
Chaired by: Aura Salla, Advisor for
UPS
Communication and Outreach at the
Chaired by: Eva Maydell, MEP, European Political Strategy Centre
Committee on the Internal Market and
Consumer Protection 17:00 - 17:15 Concluding speech: Antonio López-
Istúriz White, MEP, Secretary General of
15.30-15:45 Coffee break the EPP, Secretary Treasurer of the
Martens Centre

Closing: Tomi Huhtanen, Executive

Director of the Martens Centre

17:15 - 18:00 Closing cocktail