The College of Europe Development Office is organizing an event to debate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US in Brussels on 3 December 2014.
Registrations have been closed. Thank you for registering and for your interest in the debate.
Topics:
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‘Which contribution for growth and jobs?’
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‘Regulatory convergence: can the EU and the US deliver?’
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‘A clash of cultures and of models?’
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‘Investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS), by-passing courts or speeding up dispute settlements?'
Programme:
15:00 – 15:15
Welcome and introduction of the event and main speaker by the Rector of the College of Europe, Prof. Dr Dr Jörg MONAR.
15:15 – 15:45
Key-note speech – Presentation of the topic by Mr Denis REDONNET, Head of Strategy Unit and member of the TTIP negotiating team, DG Trade, European Commission.
15:45 – 17:00
Panel debate:
- Prof. Pierre DEFRAIGNE, Executive Director of the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation, former Deputy Director-General of DG Trade, European Commission, Professor at the College of Europe;
- Prof. Jacques PELKMANS, Senior Economic Research Fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Professor at the College of Europe;
- Mr Denis REDONNET, Head of Strategy Unit and member of the TTIP negotiating team, DG Trade, European Commission;
- Chaired by Mr Roderick ABBOTT, Senior Trade Adviser at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), former Deputy Director-General of DG Trade, European Commission and former Deputy Director-General at WTO.
17:00 – 18:30
Cocktail reception
Venue:CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels How to get there |
Date and time:Wednesday, 3 December 2014 – from 15:00 to 17:00 Followed by a cocktail reception until 18:30 Attendants can start arriving as of 14:30 |
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