10th Central European Round Table (2014)

From 5th-7th December 2014, the 10th Central European Round Table of Green Local Councilors took place in Vienna.

On the first day, public discussions around the topic “Sustainable Funding for Central and Eastern Europe” and Green reform proposals were held, with participation of Green MEPs from Austria, Hungary and Croatia, and also representatives of civil society.

On the second and third day, there was a “round-up” about the situation of Green local office holders from Czech Republic, Hungary and the countries of former Yugoslavia, and presentations of some “best practices” from “reed-green” Vienna.

The PROGRAMME:
10th Central European Round Table 2014 – PROGRAMME FINAL

DOWNLOADS of PRESENTATIONS:

10roundTable2014_PresentationSERIND_AndreasNovyGBWaustria_5dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationSERIND_EcopolisFoundationHungary_5dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationAndrasLukacsCleanAirActionGroup_EUfundsReformProposals_5dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationRobertGodina_ProvidingEqualOpportunitiesGoodQualitySpending_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_GreenMunicipalAndLocalElectionResultsPrague2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationCzechRepublicGreensInBrno_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationHungaryPM_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationMacedoniaDOM_EcologicalSecurityBalkans_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationMontenegroPCG_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationSerbiaZeleniSrbije_6dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationViennaRedesigningMariahilferStrasse_RuedigerMaresch_7dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationViennaMariahilferStrasseTheGreenCampaign_7dec2014

10roundTable2014_PresentationDistrictCooperationDoeblingKispest2014_7dec2014

VIDEO I: Campaign 2014 of ORaH, Croatia

VIDEO II: Interviews with participants (in German; 9 minutes)

PHOTOS:

December 5th, 2014: Monika Vana (MEP, Die Grünen Austria) welcoming.

Presentation of Andreas Novy (Austrian Green Foundation) on SERIND (Socioecological reindustrialisation).

Karin Kadenbach (MEP, Social Democratic Party of Austria) speaking.

Presentation of Erzsébet Gergely (Ecopolis Foundation, Hungary) on SERIND.

Panel discussion on SERIND, with moderator Doris Pollet-Kammerlander (right).

Discussion on European energy and foreign politics with Davor Škrlec (MEP, ORaH Croatia).

Discussion on European energy and foreign politics, input by Tamás Meszerics (MEP, LMP-Politics can be different, Hungary).

Panel on pre-accession assistance in the West Balkans, from left to right: Ulrike Lunacek (MEP and Vice-President of the European Parliament, Die Grünen Austria), Gerhard Schumann-Hitzler (Director of the DG Enlargement in the European Commission, Brussels), Doris Pollet-Kammerlander (moderator) and Vedran Džihić (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna).

Panel on West Balkans, input by Gerhard Schumann-Hitzler (European Commission).

Panel on West Balkans, audience.

Group photo of some Panelists, December 5th, 2014.

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”. From left to right: Sibylle Hamann (moderator), Monika Vana (MEP, member of EP Committe on Regional Development), Benedek Jávor (MEP, PM-Dialogue for Hungary, member of EP Committee on Budgetary Control), András Lukács (NGO “Clean Air Action Group”, Hungary) and Herta Tödtling-Schönhofer (Metis Consulting Company – supporting good governance).

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”. Keynote speech by Monika Vana.

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”. Presentation by András Lukács (Clean Air Action Group, Hungary).

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”. Reform proposals on EU Funding by “Clean Air Action Group”, Hungary.

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”. Benedek Jávor (MEP, Hungary) speaking.

Panel “EU funds for Central and Eastern Europe: fortune of fraud?”, discussion.

December 5th, 2014, evening: Dinner at House of the European Union, Vienna.

December 6th, 2014: Meeting at Vienna Town Hall. Gerhard Jordan (Vienna, Local Assistant of MEP Monika Vana) and Monika Vana introducing.

Keynote speech by Robert Godina (Advisor of Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, Slovenia): “Providing equal opportunities, good quality expenditure and reducing the deadweight in EU Regional Policy”.

“Round-up” on the situation of Greens in Central Europe: Prague/Czech Republic. From left to right: Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel (European Network of Green Seniors, moderator), Petr Štěpánek (District Mayor in Prague-4) and Petra Kolínská (Municipal Councillor in Prague).

“Round-up” on Central Europe: Brno/Czech Republic. From Left to right: Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel (moderator), Jana Drápalová (Municipal Councilor in Brno, District Mayoress in Brno-Nový Lískovec) and Martin Ander (Deputy Mayor of Brno).

“Round-up” on Central Europe: Slovenia. Uroš Brežan, Mayor of Tolmin.

“Round-up” on Central Europe: Hungary. László Perneczky (LMP-Politics can be different, Local Councilor in Budapest, district 4-Újpest) and Gábor Eröss (PM-Dialogue for Hungary, Local Councilor in Budapest, district 8-Józsefváros).

“Round-up” on Central Europe: Hungary. Birgit Meinhard-Schiebel, László Perneczky and Gábor Eröss.

“Round-up” on Central Europe. Discussion.

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina. On the panel: Barbara Neuroth (Deputy Mayoress of District 4 in Vienna, moderator) and Edin Forto (Regional Councilor of Naša Stranka/”Our Party” in the Canton of Sarajevo).

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Croatia. Vlasta Toth (Local Councilor in Zagreb, district 2-Upper Town) and Kristijan Mavrek (former local councilor in Čakovec) from green Party ORaH (“Croatian Sustainable Development”).

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Macedonia. Presentation of Denko Skalovski, Municipal Councilor of DOM (Democratic Renewal of Macedonia) in Skopje.

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Montenegro. Tamara Bajić, Municipal Councilor of PCG-Positive Montenegro in Podgorica, and Miloš Brajović, PCG assistant.

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Serbia. Barbara Neuroth (moderator) with Borka Pavlović (Local Councilor in Belgrade, district Obrenovac) and Žaklina Živković (Zeleni Srbije, Belgrade).

“Round-up” on West Balkans: Serbia. Borka Pavlović, Local Councilor in Belgrade, district Obrenovac.

Input by Indre Kleinaite, Green Party of Lithuania (LŽP), Vilnius.

“Female power”: Women participating in the 10th CERT in Vienna.

Evening: “Come-together” in a Viennese wine tavern (“Heuriger”).

December 7th, 2014: Meeting in party headquarter of Die Grünen Vienna, Lindengasse 40.
“Best practices from Vienna”. Monika Vana introducing.

December 7th, 2014: Meeting in party headquarter of Die Grünen Vienna, Lindengasse 40.
“Best practices from Vienna”.

Info on the Green Campaign for the European Election 2014 in Austria by Martin Radjaby (communication manager of Die Grünen).

Info on Green campaigning in Austria by Martin Radjaby.

Info on the Green EP election Campaign by Martin Radjaby.

Discussion on Green election campaigns.

Presentation by Gerti Brindlmayer, Deputy Mayoress of District 7 in Vienna, on re-designing Mariahilfer Strasse and the local referendum campaign of February/March 2014.

Presentation of district cooperation project Döbling (Vienna, district 19) – Kispest (Budapest, district 19) by Dorothea Troll (Local Councilor in Döbling), Zoltán Zarándy (LMP Budapest) and Gerhard Jordan.