session

Fringe meeting – “Momentum for democracy in the Western Balkans”, PSI, PD, EFDS, CEE Network

Date/ time: Friday, 1 March 2024 – 16:30 – 18:15
Venue: Partito Socialista HQ, via Santa Caterina da Siena, 57, Rome, Italy
Languages: English/Italian

16:30 – 16:45 – Welcome Remarks

Enzo Maraio, National Secretary PSI
Daša Šašić Šilović, Chair CEE Network for Gender Issues, Board Member European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity

16:45 – 17:30 – Are the Balkans and the neighbourhood boiling?

Radmila Šekerinska, PES Vice President, former Deputy President SDUM and Minister of Defense North Macedonia, Board Member CEE Network for Gender Issues
Borko Stefanović, Deputy President Party of Freedom and Justice, Vice President Serbian Parliament
Zita Gurmai, President PES Women, MP Hungary
Saša Magazinović, Member National House of Representatives, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Representative in Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (tbc)
Moderator: Daša Šašić Šilović, Chair CEE Network for Gender Issues, Board Member European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity

– Political debate, Q&A –

17:30- 18:15 – Is commitment to EU enlargement real?

Matilda Ernkrans, Deputy Chair, Committee on EU-affairs in the Swedish parliament , former Minister of Development Aid, Sweden
Bojan Marichikj, First Deputy Prime Minister, Government of North Macedonia in charge of European Affairs, International Secretary SDUM, North Macedonia
Adnan Dibrani, MP Sweden
Piero Fassino, Partito Democratico, MP (tbc)
Moderator: Pia Locatelli, International Secretary PSI, Honorary President SIW, Board Member CEE Network for Gender Issues

– Political debate, Q&A –