8 Février | Conférence « L’avortement n’est pas un droit fondamental » [ENGLISH]

8th of February | Conference « Abortion, not a fundamental right » in Brussels [ENGLISH]

[L’événement se déroule en anglais]

Royal Institute for European Affairs (RIEA) / Centre for Studies, Training
and Social Analysis (CTSA) & University San Pablo CEU present CONFERENCE “ABORTION, NOT A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT” BRUSSELS.

Program

• 14:00 – Accreditations
• 14:30 – Conference opening
  – José María Beneyto, Director of the RIDEE
  – Ana del Pino, European Coordinator of the Federation One of Us and representatives of the co-organizing entities
• 15:00 – First Workshop : THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE: pillar of the history and foundations of the European project.
  – Chair: Marina Casini, President MPV Italy, Member One of Us
  – Alojz Peterle, Former Prime Minister and former Member of the European Parliament, Slovenia
  – Tonio Borg, Former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Rights, Malta (TBC)
  – Thomas Flichy de la Neuville, Professor Rennes School of Business, France
• 16:15 – Second Workshop : Analyzing THE LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF THE EU AND THE CHART OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS and how the inclusion of abortion violates them
  – Chair: Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Vice-chairman of the EU
  Convention on a charter of fundamental rights, Spain
  – Grégor Puppinck, President, European Centre for Law and
  Justice, France.
  – Isabel Benjumea, Member of the European Parliament EPP
  Group, Spain.
  – Miriam Lexmann, Member of the European Parliament EPP
  Group, Slovakia
  – Konrad Szymanski, Secretary of State for European Affairs,
  Poland (TBC)
• 17:30 – Third Workshop : THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES for the European Union of the recognition of the abortion as an EU Fundamental Right
  Chair: György Hölvenyi, Member of the European Parliament EPP Group,
  Hungary
  – Margarita de la Pisa, Member of the European Parliament ECR
  Group, Spain
  – Fabrice Hadjadj, philosopher and director of Philantropos
  Institute, France
  – Christian Frei, theologian and ethicist, Germany.
  – Nuno Melo, member of the European Parliament EPP Group,
  Portugal
• 18:45 – Coffee break
• 19:00 – Public Event and conclusions remarks:
  – Jaime Mayor Oreja, President of RIDEE, President of One of Us,
  Spain.
  – Alfonso Bullón de Mendoza, President of the Foundation San
  Pablo CEU, Spain
  – Rocco Butiglione, former Minister for European Affairs, Italy
  – Balázs Orbán, Political Director of PM, Hungary
  – Imre von Habsburg-Lorraine, Archduke of Austria.
  – Barbara Socha, Deputy Minister for Family and Social Affairs,
  Poland (TBC)
  – Eugenia Rocella, Minister for Family, Italy (TBC)
  – H.E. Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia (Keynote
  speaker)
  – Conclusions: Rémi Brague, philosopher, member of the
  Institute de France, member of One of Us, France

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