EUU, Alm.del - 2020-21 - Bilag 585: Invitation til interparlamentarisk virtuel konference om migration og asyl 14/6-21

Europaudvalget 2020-21
EUU Alm.del Bilag 585
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Second High-level Interparliamentary Conference on Migration

and Asylum

Monday 14th June under Hybrid format

Programme

10h30 - 11h00

Opening session:

Symbolic opening with introductory video

Welcoming speeches:

President of the European Parliament, David-Maria Sassoli

President of the Portuguese

Assembleia da República,

Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues

President of the Slovenian National Assembly, Igor Zorčič

President of the German Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble

(tbc)

Keynote Speech:

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union

for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the

European Commission (tbc)

11h00 - 12h30

Session 1: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on

migration and asylum policies

Co-chair: Tomas Tobé (Chair of the EP DEVE committee) and

Luís Marques Guedes (Chair of the Committee on

Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of the

Portuguese Assembleia da República)(tbc)

Introduction:

António Vitorino, Director-General of the

International Organisation for Migration

(IOM).

Branko Grims, Chair of the Committee on

the Interior, Public Administration and

Local

Self-Government,

Slovenian

Parliament

EUU, Alm.del - 2020-21 - Bilag 585: Invitation til interparlamentarisk virtuel konference om migration og asyl 14/6-21

Exchange of views with Members of national Parliaments

and the European Parliament

Topics for discussion may include:

(Lunch break)

14h - 15h30

Session 2: The External dimension of migration and

asylum policies

Co-chair: J.F. López Aguilar (Chairman EP LIBE

committee) and Sérgio Sousa Pinto (Chair of the

Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese

Communities of the Portuguese Assembleia da República)

(tbc)

Introduction:

Eduardo Cabrita, Minister for Home

Affairs, on behalf of the Portuguese

Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Member of the German related

committee (tbc)

The impact of the pandemic on the economic and political

stability of countries of origins and transit.

Reinforcing partner

countries’ capabilities on migration

governance, i.e. the impact on returns

Testimony from the organisation

‘Operazione

Colomba’

Exchange of views with Members national Parliaments and

the European Parliament

Topics for discussion may include:

Building mutually beneficial and tailor made partnerships

with key third countries of origin and transit in view of

achieving a comprehensive EU approach on migration and

asylum management, including the promotion of legal

pathways for migration to the EU, the integration of

migrants and tackling human trafficking;

Supporting the establishment of a holistic and

comprehensive approach to asylum and migration

management in the EU;

Human rights and refugee protection standards in the

centre of partnerships with third countries.

15h30- 16h00

Closing ceremony:

Closing remarks: Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President for

Promoting our European Way of Life (tbc)

Final statements by President Ferro and President Sassoli

EUU, Alm.del - 2020-21 - Bilag 585: Invitation til interparlamentarisk virtuel konference om migration og asyl 14/6-21

Musical moment:

The "Orquestra Geração"

(Generation

Orchestra*)

Participants are invited to watch a musical moment performed by the "Youth Generation Orchestra" -

a Hymn to Youth, end of the last movement of the 4th Symphony of Joly Braga Santos, conductor

Ulysses Ascânio.

The “Orquestra Geração”, which includes children from Kindergarten (The

Affection Orchestra) and

young adults from Universities (The Youth Generation Orchestra), was created in 2007 as a project

directed towards social intervention through music. It has been awarded the following distinctions: the

National Teachers Prize (for innovation) in 2010, considered one of the 50 best social projects in the

EU both in 2013 and 2014, an honourable mention by the Foundation Mota Engil (Oporto) in 2017. In

2018, it was declared by AGEAS the best social project of the year and given the gold medal

commemorating the 50

anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the

Portuguese Parliament.

The “Orquestra Geração” is a

member of the Sistema Europe and sits on its

board.