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Priorities for the single market beyond 2019 - BusinessEurope strategy paper

The Single Market: Taking it seriously

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How to make policies so that market integration brings benefits to all? How should we adapt to the Single Market landscape changing with Brexit? How to actualise the ambition of taking the Single Market seriously and making it work on the ground? Speakers from policy-making and social partners will give their answers and directions for the future.

Venue: FEB-VBO | Rue Ravenstein 4, 1000 Brussels

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Please note that the conference is held under the Chatham House Rule

Programme

13.00-14.00	Networking lunch and registration
14.00-14.20	Welcome and Business Ambition 2030 Markus J. Beyrer, Director General, BusinessEurope The single market in a rapidly changing global environment Jyrki Katainen, Vice-President, European Commission
14.20-15.20	Panel 1 - Tough talk on market opening and integration A barrier-free, fair and future-proof single market, and how to make rules so that market integration brings benefits to all This panel will be moderated by Matteo Borsani of Confindustria (Italy) Joe Hackett, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union Esther Lynch, Confederal Secretary, ETUC Janne Känkänen, Chairman of EU Council Competitiveness & Growth High-Level Group, Finland Paul Coebergh van den Braak, Chair of BusinessEurope’s Free Movement of Goods Working Group; Philips Milena Jaburkova, Vice President, Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic; IBM Media take-aways from the panel by Hajo Friedrich, EU correspondent Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung
15.20-15.30	Comment: Brexit and the changing Single Market landscape by Malcolm Harbour CBE, Senior Adviser, European Policy Centre
15.30-15.50	Coffee break
15.50-16.50	Panel 2 - Tough talk on implementation, enforcement and benchmarking Ambition of taking it seriously to create an enforceable level playing field, and how to make implementation and enforcement more effective, transparent and uniform This panel will be moderated by Olivier Joris of VBO-FEB (Belgium) William Sleath, Director Citizens, Migration and Security Union, Secretariat-General, European Commission Johannes Kleis, Director, BEUC Ignacio Mezquita, Counsellor for Economic and Financial Policy, Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union Taneli Lahti, Director, EU and trade policy, Confederation of Finnish Industries Torsten Albig, Vice President & Head of Brussels Corporate Representation, Deutsche Post DHL Group Media take-aways from the panel by Hajo Friedrich, EU correspondent Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung
16.50-17.05	Next political cycle: Conference highlights by MEP Andreas Schwab (EPP) and Hajo Friedrich, EU correspondent Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung
17.05-17.15	Closing keynote Cosmina Miu, Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of section Competitiveness, Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union, EU Council Presidency
17.15-18.30	Networking reception

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