Thursday 6 May 2021 live from Porto, Portugal
18:00 – 20:00 Porto time / 19:00 – 21:00 Brussels time
On the eve of the Social Summit in Porto, the S&D Group and the PES will hold a hybrid conference focused on socialist and democrat priorities for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.
The Conference will bring together prime ministers, ministers, Members of the European Parliament, trade unionists and workers from essential sectors for a discussion on an ambitious social agenda for Europe.
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera, European Parliament President David Sassoli, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit, Portuguese Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security Ana Mendes Godinho, ETUC General Secretary Luca Visentini, PES President Sergei Stanishev, S&D President Iratxe García Pérez and many others will take part in the event.
How to watch
The event will take place live at the Terminal de Cruzeiros, Porto, and will be livestreamed in English, Portuguese, French, German and Spanish. More information can also be found on the Facebook event page and on the S&D Website.
Follow the conversation online using – #Progressives4Europe – #EUSocialSummit21 – #socialrights.
A limited number of spaces are available for media to attend in person. For more information, please contact Silvia Pelz, Press Officer, S&D Group.
Programme
The conference will begin at 18:00 in Porto (Utc+1), 19:00 in Brussels (Utc+2). It will be moderated by journalist Chris Burns. More information here.
Opening: Social Europe our Fight – from Gothenburg to Porto
The event will be opened with interventions from:
- Luísa Salgueiro, Mayor of Matosinhos
- Iratxe García Pérez, President of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament
- Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and S&D Group Member
- Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
Panel 1: Town Hall on Quality Jobs
- Ana Mendes Godinho, Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Portugal
- Agnes Jongerius, S&D Coordinator for the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
- Manuel Pizarro, S&D Member of the European Parliament (EMPL) and Medical Doctor
- Alicia Homs, President of the Young European Socialists (YES) and S&D Member of the European Parliament (EMPL)
- Representatives from essential sectors
Panel 2: Time for a Fair Recovery
- Andrea Orlando, Minister of Labour and Social Policies, Italy
- Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
- Heléne Fritzon, S&D Group Vice-President and Member of the European Parliament (EMPL)
- Vasco Cordeiro, First Vice-President of the European Committee of Regions (CoR) and Member of the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES Group) in the CoR
- Mikael Leyi, Secretary General of Solidar and Solidar Foundation
Key-note speeches
- Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Co-chair of the Independent Commission for Sustainable Equality (ICSE)
- Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
- Pedro Marques, S&D Group Vice-President and Member of the European Parliament
Sustainable Wellbeing Starts Now
- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
- David Maria Sassoli, President of the European Parliament
- Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden, Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
- António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal, Secretary General of the Socialist Part
Closing
- Iratxe García Pérez, President of the S&D Group
Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists (PES)