The EESC Workers' Group will hold an extraordinary meeting at the premises of the CNEL (Consiglio Nazionale Economia e Lavoro - Italian National Council for Economics and Labour) in Rome on 26 September 2014.
Chaired by group president, Georgios Dassis, the event will unveil the priorities of the Italian Presidency of the European Union and examine the economic and social situation in Italy.
During the conference a study will be presented on "the representation of the labour world in national and European institutions" carried out by the University of Verona.
The following high-level speakers will be present to comment on the study and discuss the role of economic and social councils in Europe:
Teresa Bellanova, Italian State Secretary for Labour and Social Policy
Pier Paolo Baretta, Italian State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Finance
Maria Elena Boschi, Minister for Institutional Reforms and relations with the Parliament (tbc)
Antonio Marzano, CNEL President
Susanna Camusso, Secretary-General of the CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro)
Raffaele Bonanni, Secretary-General of the CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacato Lavoratori)
Luigi Angeletti, Secretary-General of the UIL (Unione Italiana del Lavoro)
The representativeness of the social partners and civil society is one of the main issues in the current debate on labour law. The economic crisis in Europe has brought the role of "intermediate bodies", such as national and European economic and social councils, and their function and action into question. It has never been so necessary to address these questions in an open debate and to bring the relevant stakeholders and political authorities around the table to acknowledge the past and future roles of the economic and social councils in Europe.