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Summer University Budapest, from 19/07/2017 to 23/07/2017

Program

Wednesday, 19th July: Arrival and Opening

Morning Arrival, accommodation and registration 17:30-20:00 ● Opening session Speakers: - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, EN, FR Berlin, Germany) - Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

Presentation of the program of the Summer University Presentation of the exposition “Colours of a Journey”

Performance of the Ságvári Choir 20:00 Dinner and welcome Party at Vitta Hotel Singing with Attila Tapolczai Thursday, 20th July: Alternatives for Europe

9:00 Opening of Bookshop 9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 1: Europe in the new globalisation era Speakers: EN, FR, - Pabel Muñoz (MP, President of the Economic Commission of National HU,RU, Assembly, former Minister of Planning and Development, Ecuador) DE, ES - Francis Wurtz (Honorary Member of the , , France) - Dagmar Enkelmann (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) - Moderator from the European Left 11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● - ecosocialism and ecofeminism FR, EN Speakers: - Corinne Morel Darleux (Parti de Gauche, France) - Gitte Pedersen (Red Green Alliance, Denmark)

● Consequences of the Brexit vote EN, FR, Speakers: HU, RU - Felicity Dowling (Left Unity, United Kingdom) - Moderator: Waltraud Fritz (Communist Party of Austria, KPOE, Austria) 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 WORKSHOPS:

● Reflection before the visit of the Archive of Georg Lukács Speakers: - Péter Szigeti (Former President of Electoral Comity of Hungary) - Tamás Krausz (Historian, University Teacher) - Péter Agárdi (Member of Foundation of Lukács)

● Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Center at Páva street (until 16h)

● European Integration: Impasses and alternatives Speakers: - Angelina Giannopoulou (transform! europe, Athens, Greece) - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, Berlin, Germany) - Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain) - Moderator: Dagmar Svendova (transform! europe, Břeclav, Czech Republic)

● The past 20 years in local government, challenges and corruption Speaker: - Dr. Ferenc Gegesy (Former Mayor of IX. District of Budapest, Hungary) 16:00-17:30 ● Plenary 2: Different roads for the left in Europe – Perspectives from the “PIIGS States” and Germany Speakers : - Eftychia Achtsioglou (Minister of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity, EN, FR, Greece) HU,RU, - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Sinn Féin Senator, Ireland) IT - Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain) - Marika Tändler-Walenta (Die Linke, Germany) - Moderator : Maurizio Acerbo (National Secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista, Italy) 17:30-18:30 Dinner 18:30-19:20 From Hotel to Metro and to the river port 19:30- 21:30 Cultural Political sightseeing on river boat

Friday 21st, July: Future for Central Europe and Eastern Europe

9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 3 : Social and democratic rights in Hungary. To be or not to be in EU? Speakers: EN, FR, - Gyula Molnár (President of Hungarian Socialist Party, Hungary) HU, RU - Maite Mola (Vice-President of the Party of the European Left) - Moderators: Gyula Hegyi (former MEP) and Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● The European Campaign against human trafficking Speaker: EN, FR, - Cristina Bernabeu (, Spain)

● For a Europe of Public Services to fight for (first part) Speakers: EN, FR, - Szöllősi Istvánné (Teachers’ Trade Union, Former Secretary of PSZ, Hungary) HU, RU - Toni Barbara (Ex-Coordinator of the Public Services Working Group of the EL and Social Activist, Spain) WORKSHOPS:

● Election systems Speaker: - Jiri Malek (transform! Europe, Czech Republic)

● Authoritarianism and Democracy in CEE (Example of Poland, Serbia, Ukraine and Balkans). Speaker: - Veronika Susova Salminen (Scholar, Finland) 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 SEMINAR:

● Focus on Health and Education: Universal, Guaranteed, Public and Qualitative (second part) Speakers: EN, FR, - Toni Barbara (Medical activist and founder of the Marea Blanca of Catalonia HU, RU and its Spanish coordination, Spain) - Sonja Crivelli (Responsible of the Education Working Group of the EL, Labour Party of Switzerland, Switzerland)

WORKSHOPS:

● Visiting the archive of Georg Lukács (until 16h)

● Social Media Knowledge: intelligence, strategy and setting-up of web communication - Alessandro Pacini (Rifondazione Comunista) - With Izquierda Unida Press team

● PowerPoint presentation on the past and the present of the former industrial area at the neighborhood of Vitta Hotel, and after the Participants visiting a nearby bankrupt factory at Váci Road.

15:30-17:30 ● Plenary 4: The rise of the right: authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, a laboratory for a European development? Speakers: EN, FR, - Gáspár Tamás Miklós (Marxist philosopher, Hungary) HU, RU - Olesya Orlenko (Friends of L’Humanité, Russia) - Dagmar Svendova (transform! europe, Břeclav, Czech Republic) - Moderator: Tamás Csiszár (Member of the foreign Affairs Committee of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

17:30-19:30 SEMINARS

● The situation of Women in Central and Eastern Europe EN, FR, Speakers: HU, RU - Rita Antoni (President of Civil Organisation for Women) - Ana Simona Zelenović (Member of Serbian Green Youth) - Moderator: Judit Morva (Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

● Is the Danger Over ? - The Radical and Populist Right in Europe Speakers: EN, FR, - Czesław Kulesza (Naprzod - Forward, Warsaw, Poland) - Barbara Steiner (transform! europe, Vienna, Austria) - Antoine de Cabanes (Espaces Marx, Paris, France) - Moderator: Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain) (17:30-19:30) WORKSHOPS:

● On the Visegrád group Speakers: - Jiri Hudecek (Party of Democratic Socialism, Czech Republic) - Attila Vajnai (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006, Hungary)

● Documentary : “Fire at sea” (winner of 2016 Berlin Gold Bear award) 108 minutes. 20:00 Dinner 21:00 Visiting the Statue of Liberty at the Citadel (by public transport)

Saturday 22nd, July: Peace, Democracy and International Solidarity

9:30-11:20 ● Plenary 5: What alternatives the Left offers to the EU politics on refugees? Speakers: - Aslı Aydın (Freedom and Solidarity Party, ÖDP, Turkey) EN, FR, - Attila Melegh (Professor of Corvinus University, Hungary) HU, RU - Angeliki Visviki (, Greece) - Marta Stojić Mitrović (The Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade, Serbia) - Moderator: Giovanna Capelli (Rifondazione Comunista, Italy)

11h20-11h30 Break 11:30-12:30 SEMINARS:

● Marseille Forum EN, FR, Speakers: HU, RU - Cornelia Hildebrandt (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, transform! europe, Berlin, Germany) - Anne Sabourin (French Communist Party, France) 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:30 WORKSHOP ● Commemoration at the soldier Statue, guarding the short lived (129 days) Soviet Republic at 1919. 15:30-17:30 ● Plenary 6: What peace politics for a Europe on the verge of militarisation Speakers: - Maite Mola (Vice-President of the Party of the European Left) - Inger V. Johansen (Red Green Alliance, Denmark) EN, FR, - Jiri Hudecek (Party of Democratic Socialism, Czech Republic) HU, RU - Antero Eerola (, Finland) - Moderator: Erhard Chrome (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)

17:30-19:30 SEMINARS:

● Struggling to end the violence against women Speaker: EN, FR, - Rosario Luque Galvez (Izquierda Unida, Spain) HU, RU - Nicoletta Pirotta (Feminists for another Europe, Italy) - Inna Supac (MP, Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, Moldova) (17:30-19:30) ● The unity of the Left in Europe Speakers: - Natasa Theodorakopoulou (SYRIZA, Greece) EN, FR - Maite Mola (Vice-President of the Party of the European Left) - Moderator: Marga Ferré (Europe of Citizens Foundation, transform! europe, Madrid, Spain)

● "Migration, the Rise of Xenophobia and Criminalization of Solidarity: Where does the Left stand?" Speakers: - Jon S. Rodríguez (GUE/NGL, European Parliament) - Elengo Manousaki (Solidarity clinic and Pharmacy of Athens and member of EN, FR SYRIZA, Greece) - Moderation Angelina Giannopoulou (transform! europe, Athens, Greece)

WORKSHOPS:

● Cultural workshop / performance: “Our Marija/Belgrade at Midnight“ – Political Theater between East & West With Ivan Pantelic and Eva Brenner Lecture Demonstration with video-projections

20:00 Dinner and closing by Margarita Mileva 21:00 Farewell party

Sunday 23th, July - Departure