Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels | 15 March '10 from 13.30-18.00

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Programme

14.00 - 16.00: Panel I
“Putting the global financial transaction tax on the global political agenda: How and why?”

The Transatlantic initiatives – live video link with Washington DC

Poul Nyrup RASMUSSEN, President of the Party of European Socialists, Co-chair of the Global Progressive Forum

Richard TRUMKA, Chair of AFL-CIO (in video from USA)

Moderator: Conny REUTER, Secretary General of Solidar

“Putting the global financial transaction tax on the global political agenda: How and why?”

Pervenche BERES, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Employment Committee, S&D Group

Philippe LAMBERTS, Member of the European Parliament, Co-President of the European Green Party

Pedro PÁEZ, Former Minister for Economic Policy Coordination of Ecuador, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ecuador and President of the Presidential technical Commission for the new Regional Financial Architecture at the Banco del Sur

Guy RYDER, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Andreas SCHIEDER, Secretary of State for Finance, Austria

Damon SILVERS, AFL-CIO, Member of the US Congressional Oversight Panel, USA

Moderator: Cornelia PRIMOSCH, Journalist, ORF, Austria Discussion

Conclusions: Poul Nyrup RASMUSSEN

16.15 – 17.45: Panel II
“How can it function?”

Pr Ross BUCKLEY, Co-director of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance at Bond University, Economist, Australia

Udo BULLMANN, Member of the European Parliament, S&D Coordinator ECON Committee, S&D Group

John EVANS, TUAC Secretary General, OECD

Pr Stephany GRIFFITH-JONES, University of Columbia IPD, New York, USA

Eva JOLY, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Development Committee, Green Party

Dr. Y Venugopal REDDY, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Alexandra STRICKNER Project manager, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and co-founder of Attac Austria

Moderator: Guillaume DUVAL Editor in Chief, Alternatives économiques, France

Discussion

17.45 - 18.00: Conclusions

Philippe LAMBERTS, Member of the European Parliament, Co-President of the European Green Party

Javier MORENO SANCHEZ, Secretary General of the GPF

Ernst STETTER, Secretary General of FEPS