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Study days of the GUE/NGL in NICOSIA, Cyprus

Study days of the GUE/NGL in NICOSIA, Cyprus

 Study days of the GUE/NGL in NICOSIA, Cyprus

(Under Cypriot Presidency of the Council)

 

 

 

                                      

 

 

01-04 October 2012

 

Key debates:

 

 

I/ The Cyprus problem

 

Chair: Gabi ZIMMER, President of the GUE/NGL
Andros KYPRIANOU, General Secretary of the CC AKEL

Questions & Answers

Possible Press Conference of GUE/NGL President and General Secretary of CC AKEL with interpretation in DE/GR

 

Chair : Kartika LIOTARD (Vice-Chair of GUE/NGL)
Meeting with the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, Soteroula CHARALAMBOUS
Questions and answers
 

 

Chair: João FERREIRA., GUE/NGL MEP
Guest contributions:

Meeting with: Turkish Cypriot Parties and Organisations on the changes in demographic structure and the situation.

Debate
Conclusions:  João FERREIRA

 

Chair: Takis HADJIGEORGIOU, Vice President of the GUE/NGL

Meeting of the GUE/NGL with :

Stavros MALAS, Minister of Health, Candidate to the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus (tbc)
Questions and answers
Neoclis SYLIKIOTIS, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
Questions and answers


 

II/ The Middle East problem, changes in the region and the possibility of a new war 

 

Chair: Kyriacos TRIANTAPHYLLIDES GUE/NGL / MEP
 

 

Introduction: (10 minutes) speaker from AKEL

 

Guest contributions: (10 minutes each)

Hunein NEMER, General Secretary, Syrian Communist Party 
Nadim ALLA EDDINE, Member Political Bureau Lebanese Communist party
Navid SHOMALI, Secretary International Department, Tudeh Party of Iran
Bassam A.O. SALHI, General Secretary, Palestinian People’s Party 
Issam MAKHOUL Member Political Bureau, Communist Party of Israel
Moataz Mahmoud Zaky EL HEFNAWY. Member Political Bureau, Responsible International Relations, Communist Party of Egypt
 

 

Contributions by GUE/NGL MEPs (5 minutes each)

 
Willy MEYER
Patrick LE HYARIC.
Babis ANGOURAKIS
Cornelia ERNST

 

Chair: Søren SØNDERGAARD, GUE/NGL MEP
Questions -answers
Debate
 

Conclusions

Willy MEYER, GUE/NGL MEP
 

 

III/ State of Play of the Cypriot Presidency

 

Chair: Gabi ZIMMER, President of GUE/NGL
Guest’s contributions:
Ambassador Andreas MAVROYIANNIS, Deputy Minister of European Affairs (12 min)
Contributions GUE/NGL MEPs: (5 minutes each)
 

 

The EU Multiannual Financial Framework

Jürgen KLUTE, GUE/NGL MEP (5 minutes)
Nicos CHOUNTIS., GUE/NGL MEP (5 minutes) 
Alda SOUSA, GUE/NGL MEP (5 minutes)
Questions and answers
Debate
 

 

Asylum Policy

Cornelia ERNST, GUE/NGL MEP(5 minutes)
Questions and answers,
Debate
Conclusions: Gabi ZIMMMER, President of GUE/NGL