DRAFT PROGRAMME
KEDE Conference on:


"Local Authorities, Refugee Flows and Migration Issue –

Impact on the Society, the Economy and the Tourism"

SAMOS, 2-3-4 June 2016
Hotel DORYSSA


Thursday, June 2, 2016


19:30 - 21:30: Opening Ceremony

Michalis Angelopoulos
Mayor of Samos, Member of KEDE Administrative Board

v  Spyros Galinos
Mayor of Lesvos, Chairman of the Regional Union of North Aegean

Christiana Kalogirou, Head of the Region of North Aegean

Panagiotis Kouroumblis, Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction

Ioannis Mouzalas, Deputy Minister of Migration Policy

v  Ieronymos, Archbishop of Athens and Greece

v  Efsevios, Bishop of Samos, Ikaria & Korseon

George Patoulis, KEDE President, Mayor of Amaroussion

Friday, June 3, 2016

9:30-11:00: Presentation of the Study of Institute of Local Self Government (ITA), George Patoulis, ITA President

11:00-12:30: Greece & the Refugees Issue: National Threat or National Challenge

Christos Stylianidis, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management

Dimitris Vitsas, Deputy Minister of Defense

Dora Bakoyianni, Deputy, Athens District

v  Representatives of political parties - Officers in charge of migration issue:

ü  SYRIZA

ü  New Democracy (ND)

ü  Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PA.SO.K)

ü  Communist party of Greece (KKE)

ü  River (POTAMI)

ü  Independent Greeks (ANEL)

ü  Centrist Union Party


Discussion

12:30- 13:00: Coffee Break

13:00 -14:30: Strategic Planning Management of the Refugees Issue at Local Level - The Role of Municipalities from their experience up to today

§  Gyorgy Illes, Co-rapporteur of the Report on Refugees and Immigration, Member of the Chamber of Local Authorities, CLRAE, Mayor of Pilisszentlaszlo (Hungary)

v  Ioannis Moralis, Mayor of Pireaus

v  Manolis Vournous, Mayor of Chios

v  Efthimios Fotopoulos, Mayor of Delta

v  Christos Gkountenoudis, Mayor of Paionia

v  George Kyritsis, Mayor of Kos

v  Ioannis Konstantatos, Mayor of Elliniko – Argyroupolis

v  Ioannis Karagiannis, KEDE 2nd Vice President, Mayor of Lagada

Moderator: Michalis Angelopoulos, Member of KEDE Administrative Board, Mayor of Samos

14:30 -16:00: Immigration to Cities - Redesigning Urban Web, Social Integration

v  Santo Caruso, CEMR Representative Responsible for the Asylum and the Integration, Mayor of Aci Sant’ Antonio

v  Michael Muller, Mayor of Berlin

v  Giuseppina - Maria Nicolini, Mayor of Lampedusa

v  Giovanni Lepri, UN High Commissioner for Refugees - Regional representative for Southern Europe

v  Yoomi Renstrom, Co-rapporteur of the Report on Refugees and Immigration, Member of the Chamber of Regions, CLRAE Councillor of the Regional Executive Bureau of Gavleborg (Sweden),

v  Representative of the Cypriot Union of Municipalities

v  Representative of the Turkish Union of Municipalities

v  Ioanna Zacharakis, Vice-President of the Steering Committee, Network of the Greek Elected Representatives in Europe

Moderator: Dimitris Kafantaris, KEDE 1st Vice President, Mayor of Pylos Nestoros

Discussion

Saturday, June 4, 2016


9:30- 11:00: Tourism - Development and Refugees Flows

v  Elena Kountoura, Minister of Tourism

v  Representative of the North Aegean Region (Planning of Tourism Development)

v  Andreas Andreadis President of the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises

v  Giorgos Kyriazis, President of Chamber, Samos

v  Manos Valis, Member of the Hotels Association Board

Moderator: Gerasimos Damoulakis, Member of KEDE Administrative Board, Mayor of Milos

Discussion


11:00 - 12:30: Social Solidarity, Voluntarism and Humanitarian Aid

v  Presentation of Project “We Care”

v  Red Cross

v  “Smile at the Aegean Sea”

v  NGO “Mission”

v  Doctors without Borders

Discussion


12:30 to 13:30: Conclusions - End of the Conference