A strong EU defence industry - Strenghtening the role of SMEs in European Supply Chain

09:30 – 09h40 WELCOME ADDRESS

• Olgierd Geblewicz, President of the EPP-CoR Group, President of the West Pomerania Region. Video message.

 

09h40 – 10h00 KEYNOTE SPEECHES

• Fernando López Miras, President of the Region of Murcia. CoR member
• Partido Popular (PP) national representative (tbc)

 

10h00 – 10h45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION I: Supporting the European Defence Industrial strategy, supporting innovative defence SMEs.

• Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, MEP, EPP Coordinator for Security and Defence.
• Rasa Juknevičienė, MEP, EPP Vice Coordinator for Security and Defence.
• Pehr Granfalk, Member of the Municipal Council of Solna, Sweden. CoR ECON commission Vice-Chair

 

10h45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

 

11h15 – 12h00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION II: Expanding the supply chains of the EU defence industry ecosystem

• Rubén Garcia Servet, Lieutenant General (R) Spanish Air and Space Force
• Agustín Conde Bajén, PP Deputy in Spanish Congress of Deputies, Former Defence Secretary of State
• Jose Luis Fuster Torres, Director, Metal Technological Centre Region of Murcia.
• Adrian Teban, Mayor of Cugir, Romania. CoR member

12h00 – 12h45 QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE

 

12h45 CLOSING

• Noelia Arroyo, Mayor of Cartagena

 

Event’s Venue

 

Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena.

Town Hall Square nº9

30201 Cartagena

https://teatroromano.cartagena.es/index.asp

Map of Cartagena