10th Central European Round Table of Green Local CouncillorsVienna, 5th - 7th December 2014

PROGRAMME - FINAL

Central European Round Tables of Green Local Councillors take place in Vienna annually since 2005, with approx. 30 to 50 local officeholders from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and several countries from former Yugoslavia, and guests from Western Europe (mainly from Green Foundations). More info on the previous RoundTables (reports, presentations, photos etc.) can be found here:http://greeningthecities.wordpress.com/central-european-round-table/ (overview)http://greeningthecities.wordpress.com/central-european-round-table/9th-central-european-round-table-october-2013/ (CERT 2013)

ORGANISERS:MEP Monika Vana (Austria) and Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament; Grüne Bildungswerkstatt (Austrian Green Foundation), Die Grünen Vienna.

Friday, 5th December: Dynamizing subsidizing. Sustainable Funding for Central and Eastern Europe and Green Reform Proposals(in cooperation with the EP information office in Vienna)Location: House of the European UnionWipplingerstrasse 35, A-1010 Vienna

11 - 11:30 am:Welcome by Johann Sollgruber (Head a.i. of the European Commission-Representation in Austria);Welcome and Introduction by Monika Vana MEP of Die Grünen, Austria.

11:30 am - 1 pm: Presentation of the SERIND ("Socioecological reindustrialisation") Project and its relevance to local councillors by Andreas Novy (Chair of the Austrian Green Foundation GBW and Professor at the Institute for the Environment and Regional Development - University of Economics and Business Vienna) followed by a panel discussion with Karin Kadenbach, MEP of SPÖ, Austria (Member of the Committee on Environment) and Erszébet Gergely (Ökopolisz Foundation, Hungary).Moderation: Doris Pollet-Kammerlander

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1 pm - 2:15 pm: Lunch.

2:15 – 3:30 pm: Panel discussion: "Power play: Possibilities of EU cohesion policy on the way to the 'energy revolution' and for more political scope in foreign policy".Davor Škrlec MEP of ORaH, Croatia (Energy expert, former professor at Universityof Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on Regional Development);Tamás Meszerics MEP of LMP, Hungary (Foreign Affairs expert, CEU assistant professor, Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Delegation to the EURONEST ParliamentaryAssembly).Moderation: Doris Pollet-Kammerlander

3:30 - 5 pm: Panel discussion: Practice and effectiveness of EU pre-accession assistance in the Western Balkans.Ulrike Lunacek MEP of Die Grünen, Austria, Vice President of the European Parliament (Committee on Foreign Affairs, Delegation to the EU-Serbia, Delegation to the EU-Montenegro, Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo),Gerhard Schumann-Hitzler (Director of the DG Enlargement in the European Commission, Brussels),Vedran Džihić (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna).Moderation: Doris Pollet-Kammerlander

5 - 6 pm: Coffee and Networking Break.

6 - 8 pm: Panel discussion: "EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune or fraud? - Reform proposals for Regional politics and fair re-distribution". (Translation English/German)Monika Vana MEP, Austria (Committee on Regional Development, Committee on Budgets, Founder of the "Central European Round Table of Green Local Councillors"),Herta Tödtling-Schönhofer (Director of Metis Consulting Company - supporting good governance),András Lukács (Clean Air Action Group, Hungary),Benedek Jávor MEP of PM, Hungary (Anti-corruption expert, Committee on Budgetary Control, Member of the Intergroup on Integrity).Moderation: Sibylle Hamann (journalist).

After 8 pm: Evening reception.

Saturday, 6th December: Central European Round Table of Green Local Councillors -"Round-up" on the situation of Green local politics in the countries presentLocation: Rathaus (Town Hall of Vienna), Lichtenfelsgasse 2, A-1082 Vienna

10 am - 11:30 am:

• Welcome by Monika Vana MEP, Austria• Presentation by Robert Godina, Slovenia, advisor of the Green/EFA Group

in the EP: "Providing Equal opportunities, Good quality expenditure and Reducing the deadweight in EU Regional Policy".

11:30 am - 1 pm:"Round-up" on the situation of Green local politics in the countries present:Central Europe - Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia.Moderation: Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel (Vienna, European Network of Green Seniors).

Presentation Prague: Petr Štěpánek (Strana Zelených, Mayor of urban district Prague-4) and Petra Kolínská (Strana Zelených, Member of Prague City Assembly and Deputy Mayor of urban district Prague-6).Presenntation Brno: Martin Ander (Strana Zelených, Deputy Mayor of Brno) and Jana Drápalová (Strana Zelených, Municipal Councillor in Brno and Mayor of urban district Nový Lískovec).Presentation Hungary - LMP (Politics can be Different): László Perneczky (Localcouncillor Budapest, urban district 4, Újpest).Presentation Hungary - PM (Dialogue for Hungary): Gabor Erőss (Local councillor Budapest, urban district 8, Józsefváros).Presentation Slovenia: Uroš Brežan (Mayor of Tolmin).

1 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch.Afterwards (2:30 - 2:45 pm): Presentation of ENGS (European Network of Green Seniors) by Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel.

2:45 - 6 pm: "Round-up" on the situation of Green local politics in the countries present:West Balkan - successor states of former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia).Moderation: Barbara Neuroth (Vienna, Deputy Mayor of urban district 4, Wieden).

Presentation Bosnia-Herzegovina: Edin Forto (Naša Stranka/"Our Party", Member of County Council Sarajevo).Presentation Croatia: Vlasta Toth (International secretary of ORaH-Održivi razvoj Hrvatske/"Croatian Sustainable Development", local councillor in urban district Zagreb-Upper Town, and Kristijan Mavrek (Board member of ORaH, ex-local councillor in Čakovec).Presentation Macedonia: Denko Skalovski (DOM-Democratic Renewal of Macedonia, municipal councillor in Skopje).Presentation Montenegro: Tamara Bajić, PCG-Pozitivna Crna Gora/"Positive Montenegro" (municipal councillor in Podgorica) and Miloš Brajović (advisor of PCG, Podgorica). Presentation Serbia: Borka Pavlović (local councillor in urban district Belgrade-Obrenovac) and Žaklina Živković (Director of Zeleni Srbije/Greens of Serbia).

6 - 6:15 pm:Presentation Lithuania: Indrė Kleinaitė, Lithuanian Green Party (LŽP) candidate for the municipal election in Vilnius (March 2015).

After 7 pm:"Come-together" in a Viennese wine tavern ("Heuriger") in district 21.

Sunday, 7th December:Central European Round Table of Green Local Councillors -Inputs from "Red-Green" Vienna:Location: Grünes Haus (Headquarters of Die Grünen Vienna)Lindengasse 40, A-1070 ViennaModeration: Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel.

10:30 am - 12:00:• Welcome by Gerti Brindlmayer (Deputy Mayor of urban district 7, Neubau);• Review of the EP election campaign 2014 by Martin Radjaby (communication manager of Die Grünen Austria).

12:00 - 1 pm:• Presentation of the Green campaign for a pedestrian zone and shared space at Mariahilfer Strasse (that had been accepted by the voters of urban districts 6 and 7 in a local referendum in February/March 2014) by Gerti Brindlmayer and GerhardJordan (Die Grünen Vienna, local assistant of MEP Monika Vana);• State of the district cooperation between the 19th districts Döbling/Vienna and Kispest/Budapest by Gerhard Jordan (Die Grünen Vienna), Dorothea Troll (local councillor in urban district 19, Döbling) and Zoltán Zarándy (LMP Budapest, local assistant of MEP Tamás Meszerics);• Closing remarks by MEP Monika Vana.

After 1 pm: Lunch and Walk on Mariahilfer Strasse (pedestrian zone).