Alternatives to the Dublin Regulation: human lives at stake: 24 June 2015
Time: 16:30 – 21.00
Room: ASP1G2
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish
16:30-16:40: Welcome introduction: Cornelia Ernst, LIBE GUE/NGL coordinator
16:40: Panel 1: Impact of the Dublin regulation on human lives
Chair: Martina Anderson, MEP, GUE/NGL
Yonous Muhammadi, Greek forum of Refugees
Olga Siebert, Jesuit Refugee Service
Tristan Wibault, lawyer, Cabinet d'avocats du Quartier des Libertés, Belgium
Aurélie Ponthieu, Médecins Sans Frontières
Exchange of views
17.30: Panel 2: Alternatives to the Dublin regulation
Chair: Malin Björk, MEP, GUE/NGL
Pr. Gianfranco Schiavone, funder of Consorzio italiano di solidarietà, secretary of ASGI and author of the study “Il Diritto alla Protezione” (2010)
Louis Middelkoop, Adviser to the Meijers Committee
Kris Pollet, ECRE
Exchange of views
18:20: Conclusion: Barbara Spinelli, MEP
18:30: Introduction to the screening: Dennis de Jong, MEP
18:35-19:30: Cocktail, Members salon
19:30: Screening of Those who feel the fire burning by Morgan Knibbe
Introduction: Dennis de Jong, GUE/NGL and Morgan Knibbe, film director
Presented at the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary in 2014, Those who feel the fire burning depicts in an unconventional, poetic form a serious social problem: the hopeless existence of refugees stuck at the edge of Europe.
For more information:
Amandine Bach, +32 2 284 39 08, [email protected]
Registration:
If you would like to attend the hearing and/or the screening and do not have an accreditation to the EP, please note that you must pre-register by emailing the following details to [email protected] by Thursday 18th June
– Family Name
– First Name
– Date of Birth
– Nationality
– Type of ID card
– ID card/passport Number
GUE/NGL press officer: Gianfranco Battistini + 32 475 646628