Programme of the PES/SI Mercosur Committee Seminar

“Regional integration in a globalized world:
the examples of EU and Mercosur” 28th January 2005, Porto Alegre, Brazil

18:00-18:15 Welcome session
Philip Cordery, PES Secretary General
Ana Maria Stuart, Coordinator of the International Relations Secretariat of Workers' Party, PT, Brazil

18:15-19:30 Debate: “New perspectives for regional integration projects; Mercosur and EU exemples”.
Moderator: Kader Arif, National Secretary on Globalisation, PS, France
Speakers:
Zita Gurmai, PES Women President, MEP, Hungary
Harlem Désir, MEP, PES Group Vice-President, France
Florisvaldo Fier, Federal Deputy and President of the Mercosul Parliamentary Comission, PT, Brazil
Roberto Conde, PSU Secretary General, MP, Member of the Mercosur Parliamentary Commission Conjunta, Uruguay

19:30-20:45 Debate: “WTO Reform and Doha Development Round: The role of the EU and the Mercosur in the international trade”.
Moderator: Olga Zrihen, Senator, PS, Belgium
Speakers:
Marina Sereni, DS, Italy
Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, MEP, PES Group, Germany
Hermes Binner, ex Mayor of Rosario, PS, Argentina

20:45-21:15 Closing session
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President
Antonio Guterres, SI President
Prof. Marco Aurelio García, Special Adviser for International Affairs of the President of Brazil

21.30 PES Diner for all socialist participants at the WSF