GUE/NGL – HEARING

Restructuring Debt – Rebuilding Democracy

European Parliament Brussels ASP 01 G2

Tuesday 1st March 2016

09:00 – 12:30

09:00-09:30

Welcome and introductory speech by Nikolaos CHOUNTIS, Member of the European Parliament, Popular Unity

09:30 – 11:00

The outcomes of the Truth Committee on Public Debt in Greece: gaining knowledge, pushing for subversion

• Zoe KONSTANTOPOULOU, Former President of the Greek Parliament
• Eric TOUSSAINT, President of CADTM
• Georgios KASSIMATIS, Professor emeritus in Law, University of Athens
• Benjamin LEMOINE, researcher, CNRS France

11:00 – 12:30

Ways out at international level: UN work for a multilateral debt restructuration framework.

• Sofia SAKORAFA, Member of the European Parliament, Independent
• Diego BORJA, Former Minister of Finance ,Ecuador
• Maria Lucia FATORELLI, Coordinator of Citizen Debt Audit-Brazil
• Cephas LUMINA, Professor, former UN Independent expert on foreign debt & human rights

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