The EPP-CoR Group will organise an EPP Local Dialogue on EU Enlargement - Local and Regional authorities in support of Enlargement as a strategic investment in peace, security, stability and prosperity in Europe.
 

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Programme

Moderator MEP Karlo Ressler

8:00 – 8:05 OPENING ADDRESS
Olgierd Geblewicz, President of the EPP-CoR Group, President of the West Pomerania Region/PL. 

8:05 – 8:10 WELCOME ADDRESS 
Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă, President of the Romanian Senate, President of the National Liberal Party (PNL)Tbc 

8:10 – 8:15 WELCOME ADDRESS 
Siegfried Mureşan, Vice President of the EPP/RO, Vice-Chair of the EPP Group-EP and Chair of the EP's Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee 

8:15 – 8:25 KEY NOTE ADDRESS 
Dorin Recean, prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

8:25 – 9:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Nikola Dobroslavić President of Dubrovnik-Neretva Region/HR, CoR Rapporteur on Enlargement package 2023 – Western Balkans and Türkiye, Chair of the CoR Working Group on Western Balkans

Elvira Kovács, Vice President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, Vice President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (on-line intervention)
 
Marija Buhać, President of the Government of the Herzegovina – Neretva Canton, BiH 

Prof. Timčo Mucunski, Mayor of the Aerodrom Municipality, the Vice-President of VMRO-DPMNE,
Republic of North Macedonia 

Prof. Jehona Lushaku, Deputy Mayor of Capital City of Pristina, Kosovo 

Oleksandr Senkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv, Ukraine 

Alin Nica, President of Timiş County Council/RO, CoR Rapporteur on the Future of the Eastern Partnership from a local and regional perspective, CoR Civex 1st vice-chair